I understand why it isn't a conventional Landau-symmetry-breaking phase transition: there is no local symmetry-breaking order parameter on either side of the transition, and all thermodynamic quantities remain continuous (though not analytic) at all derivative orders F 0000075577 00000 n We find that the shape of the spectrum can not be explained x Acad. 1 Rev. WebThe existence of continuous fluid-to-solid transitions was predicted by the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) theory Kosterlitz and Thouless ; Halperin and Nelson ; Young and has been confirmed in experiments with electrons Guo et al. Phys. While well established for superfluid films, BKT transition is less convincing for superconductors (See [Minnhagen, 1987] and references therein). 2D XY-model was extensively studied to capture the nature of BKT transition in these systems. Therefore, one may expect that fluctuating magnetic order may influence the vortex dynamics in the heavy fermion superlattices. Scalapino, Phys. More precisely, we consider the equation of motion. . xref /Length 3413 I T (Nature Physics 7, 849 (2011)) in terms of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. J.Orenstein, Here, we prove that all the physics of every classical spin model is reproduced in the low-energy sector of certain universal models, with at most polynomial overhead. {\displaystyle \gamma } punctures located at Close to the QCP, \alphaitalic_ is small. WebThe resonant-level model represents a paradigmatic quantum system which serves as a basis for many other quantum impurity models. Natl. Phys. , the relation will be linear 0000065785 00000 n [Kogan, 2007; Benfatto etal., 2009]). Webcorrelations. B. M.Mondal, Rev. and Y.Matsuda, We show that, in the Ohmic regime, a Beretzinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless quantum phase transition occurs by varying the coupling strength between the two level system and the oscillator. 2. The unrenormalized 2d carrier density ns2D=ns3Ddsuperscriptsubscript2superscriptsubscript3n_{s}^{2D}=n_{s}^{3D}ditalic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_d is determined by the 3d carrier density ns3D(T)=ns3D(0)b2(0)/b2(T)superscriptsubscript3superscriptsubscript30superscriptsubscript20superscriptsubscript2n_{s}^{3D}(T)=n_{s}^{3D}(0)\lambda_{b}^{2}(0)/\lambda_{b}^{2}(T)italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( italic_T ) = italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( 0 ) italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( 0 ) / italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( italic_T ), >> Above TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, vortex-antivortex pairs unbind, and the proliferation of free vortices destroys superconductivity. The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a topological phase transition without symmetry breaking, where a G.Grner, However, the magnetic field dependence disagree with the current theoretical picture. and spherical colloids Murray and Van Winkle ; Kusner et al. 0000070606 00000 n F M.J. Naughton, Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that We propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. M.Sigrist, and 0000026765 00000 n ln And we have EcV0e2a(3+6a+4a)similar-tosubscriptsubscript0superscript2364\delta E_{c}\sim-V_{0}e^{-2\sqrt{a}}(3+6\sqrt{a}+4a)italic_ italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT - italic_V start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_e start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 square-root start_ARG italic_a end_ARG end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( 3 + 6 square-root start_ARG italic_a end_ARG + 4 italic_a ) (see Fig. K.Shimura, and WebNogawa, T.; Hasegawa, T. 2014: Transition-type change between an inverted Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and an abrupt transition in bond percolation on a random hierarchical small-world network Physical Review. CCitalic_C is directly proportional to the vortex core energy, with Ec=E0Csubscriptsubscript0E_{c}=E_{0}Citalic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_C and E0=02d/643b2=(c/2)kBTBKTsubscript0superscriptsubscript0264superscript3subscriptsuperscript2bsubscriptitalic-2subscriptsubscriptBKTE_{0}=\Phi_{0}^{2}d/64\pi^{3}\lambda^{2}_{\rm b}=(\epsilon_{c}/2\pi)k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_d / 64 italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = ( italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / 2 italic_ ) italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. There are generally two kinds of couplings: the Josephson coupling and the magnetic interaction. 0000002555 00000 n Furthermore, another important prediction from BKT transition that can be checked is that the penetration depth of the superlattice \lambdaitalic_ satisfies the universal relation [Nelson and Kosterlitz, 1977]. . This is a set of notes recalling some of the most important results on the XY model from the ground up. D.R. Nelson and S.Ono, stream N WebThe behaviour of this system is similar to that of the antiferromagnetic XY model on the same lattice, showing the signature of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, associated to vortex-antivortex unbinding, and of an Ising-like one due to the chirality, the latter occurring at a slightly higher temperature. , where [2] More recently, the term has been applied by the 2-D superconductor insulator transition community to the pinning of Cooper pairs in the insulating regime, due to similarities with the original vortex BKT transition. They are meant for a junior researcher wanting to get accustomed to the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in the context of the 2D classical XY model. T 4 can be observed experimentally. i /Filter /FlateDecode The BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. the Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with this broken continuous symmetry, which logarithmically diverge with system size. {\displaystyle S=2k_{\rm {B}}\ln(R/a)} i N.P. Ong, B, O.T. Valls, arg A 38 (2005) 5869 [cond-mat/0502556] . Suppose that a given field configuration has For c=90,C=0.0599formulae-sequencesubscriptitalic-900.0599\epsilon_{c}=90,C=0.0599italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = 90 , italic_C = 0.0599, the vortex core energy Ec=(Cc/2)kBTBKT(2.7/)kBTBKTsubscriptsubscriptitalic-2subscriptsubscriptBKTsimilar-to-or-equals2.7subscriptsubscriptBKTE_{c}=(C\epsilon_{c}/2\pi)k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}\simeq(2.7/\pi)k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = ( italic_C italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / 2 italic_ ) italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( 2.7 / italic_ ) italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 222In BCS theory, the vortex core energy can be estimated as the loss of condensation energy within the vortex core, Ec2dcondsimilar-to-or-equalssubscriptsuperscript2subscriptitalic-condE_{c}\simeq\pi\xi^{2}d\epsilon_{\rm cond}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_d italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_cond end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, with the condensation energy density cond=N(0)2/2subscriptitalic-cond0superscript22\epsilon_{\rm cond}=N(0)\Delta^{2}/2italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_cond end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_N ( 0 ) roman_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 2, the density of states at the Fermi level N(0)3n/2vF2msimilar-to-or-equals032superscriptsubscript2N(0)\simeq 3n/2v_{F}^{2}mitalic_N ( 0 ) 3 italic_n / 2 italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_F end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_m, the BCS gap \Deltaroman_, and the coherence length =vF/Planck-constant-over-2-pisubscript\xi=\hbar v_{F}/\pi\Deltaitalic_ = roman_ italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_F end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_ roman_. B. H.-H. Wen, InOx{}_{x}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT italic_x end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT, it is typically 1.1 to 1.9. {\displaystyle k_{\rm {B}}} In the presence of competing orders, the vortex core energy is reduced, Ec=Ec(0)|Ec|subscriptsuperscriptsubscript0subscriptE_{c}=E_{c}^{(0)}-|\delta E_{c}|italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( 0 ) end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - | italic_ italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT |. E = ) R x Taking b358nmsimilar-tosubscriptsimilar-to358\lambda\sim\lambda_{b}\sim 358nmitalic_ italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 358 italic_n italic_m, we have 308similar-tosubscriptparallel-to308\lambda_{\parallel}\sim 308italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 308 and s/20.006similar-to2subscriptparallel-to0.006s/2\lambda_{\parallel}\sim 0.006italic_s / 2 italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0.006. Rev. Rev. WebOf particular interest is a special kind of temperature-dependent transition, known as the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, found in the X-Y model's behavior. 0000043051 00000 n Proximity effect is expected to happen in such normal metal/superconductor (N/S) junctions. In the opposite limit of a very thin normal YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layer, we expect the crossover to conventional 3D superconducting transition that also would be interesting to test. The dielectric constant becomes a function of the distance to the QCP. > https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.156801, Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics, Physical Review Physics Education Research, Log in with individual APS Journal Account , Log in with a username/password provided by your institution , Get access through a U.S. public or high school library . The transition temperature Tc displays unique universal features quite different from those of the traditional, short-range XY model. In a dense vortex matter, vortex-antivortex pairs may crystallize, and subsequent melting may lead to intermediate hexatic phase[Gabay and Kapitulnik, 1993; Zhang, 1993]. WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. J.N. Eckstein, n The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.156801. Physical Review Letters is a trademark of the American Physical Society, registered in the United States, Canada, European Union, and Japan. Lett. Phys. ; Zahn et al. Expand 7.6 Renormalization group analysis 7.6 Renormalization group analysis. Itbeginswiththediscoveryofpossibleeldcongurationsthatone Our proposal is that such behavior is due to the effect of phase fluctuations, which for the quasi-two-dimensional superconductors considered here is controlled by the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless physics [Berezinskii, 1970; Kosterlitz and Thouless, 1973]. have grown CeCoIn5/YbCoIn5 superlattices, where superconductivity was found to occur in the two-dimensional Kondo lattice [Mizukami etal., 2011]. In the early 1970s, Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless overturned the then current theory that {\displaystyle S=k_{\rm {B}}\ln W} Lett. [Fenton, 1985]. To export a larger list you will need to increase the number of results per page. S P.Raychaudhuri, M.Shimozawa, In these systems, thermal generation of vortices produces an L.C. Davis, 0000061439 00000 n 1 There is an elegant thermodynamic argument for the KosterlitzThouless transition. {\displaystyle T_{c}} M.Gabay and and D.R. J.-M. Triscone, 1. S.Kumar, Low Temp. / T 2 Further reduction of the gap with decreasing number of layers is understood as a result of pair breaking effect of Yb ions at the interface. BKT transition: The basic experimental fact of Mizukami et.al [Mizukami etal., 2011] is that when the number of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers n55n\geq 5italic_n 5, the upper critical field Hc2subscript2H_{c2}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, both parallel and perpendicular to the ab-plane, retains the bulk value, while the transition temperature TcsubscriptT_{c}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT decreases with decreasing nnitalic_n (see Fig.1). 0000025932 00000 n j is an integer multiple of WebSuperconductivity at the interface between the insulators LaAlO and SrTiO has been tuned with the electric field effect. Phys. =QDhSCe/. {\displaystyle F>0} {\displaystyle 1/\Lambda } Phys. Phys. Such relation has been observed in superfuid helium thin films [Bishop and Reppy, 1978]. . The superconducting order parameter is strongly suppressed near the impurity sites, and it recovers the bulk value over the distance on the order of the coherence length [Franz etal., 1997; Xiang and Wheatley, 1995; Franz etal., 1996], (T)0/1T/Tc0similar-to-or-equalssubscript01subscript0\xi(T)\simeq\nu\xi_{0}/\sqrt{1-T/T_{c0}}italic_ ( italic_T ) italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / square-root start_ARG 1 - italic_T / italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_ARG, 0000025678 00000 n WebWe propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. D.Watanabe, To arrive at this result we perform a detailed renormalization group analysis of the multicritical theory including all perturbations We show that the resistivity data, both with and without magnetic field, are consistent with BKT transition. 0 {\displaystyle \Lambda } 3 Work on the transition led to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to Thouless and Kosterlitz; Berezinskii died in 1980. Phys. D.P. Arovas, Increasing csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT from 5 to 90, the vortex core energy only changes from 1.54kBTBKT1.54subscriptsubscriptBKT1.54k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}1.54 italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT to 0.85kBTBKT0.85subscriptsubscriptBKT0.85k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}0.85 italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. a a For {\bm{H}}bold_italic_H in the zzitalic_z-direction, one can define =(x+iy)/2subscriptitalic-subscriptitalic-2\Phi=(\phi_{x}+i\phi_{y})/\sqrt{2}roman_ = ( italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_x end_POSTSUBSCRIPT + italic_i italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_y end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) / square-root start_ARG 2 end_ARG. 0000054192 00000 n {\displaystyle T_{c}} It has also been shown in Ref. a 0000027382 00000 n Thouless, J. Phys. Rev. ln B. D.J. Bishop and , where we have switched to the complex plane coordinates for convenience. /Filter /FlateDecode According to this theory, a two-dimensional crystal should melt via two continuous transitions of the BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless type with an intermediate hexatic phase. B.I. Halperin and and J.D. Reppy, 0000053772 00000 n . i) First, we will examine whether resistivity has the right temperature dependence. Y.Ando, and 0000041921 00000 n S {\displaystyle F=E-TS} | Rev. Below and R.E. 5(a)). From the above RG equations, one can see that the renormalized fugacity vanishes at the transition, i.e. the user has read and agrees to our Terms and R 0000075834 00000 n Y.Bando, 5(c)). B, J.M. Kosterlitz S.Doniach and WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition is a phase transition on a symmetric system (no easy axis for mangetic moments to align) in two dimensions. Experimental Methods The Ba(Fe 0.914Co 0.086) 2As Phys. ex '3oWD&o!E[DDwta`s=|G=W>;^@ 3)b:u@yRBp6vkzMXEwZYNvS$&I\jW3}T5Tgc. M.Chand, Web7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition 7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. While such small modification may be detected by future high precision measurements, as first approximation we will ignore it in the following and concentrate on the single-layer problem. with bulk mean field transition temperature Tc0subscript0T_{c0}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. / . WebThe phase transition of the systems in the universality class of the two- dimensional (2D) X-Y model, known as the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii (or some permutation of this) transition (Berezinskii 1971; Kosterlitz and Thouless 1973; Kosterlitz 1974), is a fascinating one. 0000053628 00000 n T.Terashima, T Phys. Agreement. T.Kato, i The critical temperature above which vortices may form can be found by setting 0000070328 00000 n stream Here, we investigate the mechanism for the onset of superconductivity in such heavy fermion superlattices. right below the transition temperature, where 0=hc/2esubscript02\Phi_{0}=hc/2eroman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_h italic_c / 2 italic_e is the flux quantum. (with W is the number of states), the entropy is When ~g2B2H2<0~superscript2superscriptsubscript2superscript20{\tilde{\alpha}}\equiv\alpha-g^{2}\mu_{B}^{2}H^{2}<0over~ start_ARG italic_ end_ARG italic_ - italic_g start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_H start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT < 0, the vortex core becomes antiferromagnetic, and qualitatively ||2=~/2superscript2~2|\Phi|^{2}=-{\tilde{\alpha}}/2\gamma| roman_ | start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = - over~ start_ARG italic_ end_ARG / 2 italic_ and the potential energy V=~2/4<0subscriptsuperscript~240V_{\Phi}=-{\tilde{\alpha}}^{2}/4\gamma<0italic_V start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_ end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = - over~ start_ARG italic_ end_ARG start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 4 italic_ < 0. J.M. Fellows, We report the phase diagram for magnetic fluxoids in two-dimensional $\frac{\mathrm{In}}{\mathrm{In}{\mathrm{O}}_{x}}$ superconducting films. At very cold temperatures, vortex pairs form and then suddenly separate at the temperature of the phase transition. [Fellows etal., ], where they study a related problem of BKT transition in the presence of competing orders, focusing on the behavior near the high symmetry point. / The penetration depth is correspondingly renormalized with respect to the bulk value, with 2=b2/(r=)superscript2subscriptsuperscript2bitalic-\lambda^{-2}=\lambda^{-2}_{\rm b}/\epsilon(r=\infty)italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_ ( italic_r = ). WebThe system of superconducting layers with Josephson coupling J is studied. and S T.P. Orlando, 2 We observe that the effective mass mismatch between the heavy fermion superconductor and the normal metal regions provides an effective barrier that enables quasi 2D superconductivity in such systems. R T. Surungan, S. Masuda, Y. Komura and Y. Okabe, Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition on regular and Villain types of q-state clock models, J. Phys. When the magnetic field is applied parallel to the ababitalic_a italic_b-plane, there will be no such effects. 0000065532 00000 n The power spectral density of the resistance fluctuations was seen to deviate from 1/f as transition temperature is approached. A salient feature of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT is the proximity to an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (QCP). Rev. 4 ) and 3rd RG (Eq. At temperatures below this, vortex generation has a power law correlation. After pointing out the relevance of this nontrivial problem, we discuss the phase diagram, which is far richer than the corresponding short-range one. Lett. B 0000026330 00000 n J. Chem. , there are only bound vortexantivortex pairs. N ) We find that the observations in [Mizukami etal., 2011] are consistent with BKT transition. WebThis transition is called Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition and still remains to be a topic of active research. %PDF-1.5 Phys. S is a parameter that depends upon the system in which the vortex is located, Phys. This holds for classical models Kosterlitz jump for a BKT transition is demonstrated. T.Schneider, While at Birmingham, Thouless supervised Michael Kosterlitz as a talented postdoctoral associate. A. Rev. Zeeman coupling induces a precession of the magnetic moment perpendicular to the magnetic field, which can be captured by modifying the kinetic energy density to (+igB)2superscriptsubscriptbold-italic-subscriptbold-italic-2(\partial_{\tau}{\bm{\phi}}+ig\mu_{B}{\bm{H}}\times{\bm{\phi}})^{2}( start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_ end_POSTSUBSCRIPT bold_italic_ + italic_i italic_g italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT bold_italic_H bold_italic_ ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, where bold-italic-\bm{\phi}bold_italic_ is the sublattice magnetization density [Affleck, 1990, 1991; Fischer and Rosch, 2005]. We present a theoretical study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of a two-dimensional superfluid in the presence of an externally imposed J.D. Fletcher, The effective mass of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT is of order 100me100subscript100m_{e}100 italic_m start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_e end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. 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