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Nobel Laureate Conversation: Prof. J. Michael Kosterlitz

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Prof. J. Michael Kosterlitz is the 2016 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics. Through his career, he overturned the conventional understanding that two-dimensional systems could not undergo phase transitions due to thermal fluctuations, along with David Thouless. They showed that vortex-antivortex pairs play a key role in phase transitions, leading to a topological phase transition now known as the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition. He is a true trai
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Newswise broke the news in Charlottesville, United States on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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