John M. Kosterlitz

John Michael Kosterlitz is a British physicist.

J. Michael Kosterlitz is particularly known for his studies, along with David J. Thouless, to the Berezinsky - Kosterlitz - Thouless transition, for example, in the two-dimensional XY model for the description of magnetism. There is a special phase transition, will be broken whenever the pairs of vortices or vortex excitations. In addition, he has researched numerous phenomena in statistical physics, for example, growth processes on crystal surfaces to spin glasses and localization of electrons.

Michael Kosterlitz, was born as the son of the biochemist Hans Walter Kosterlitz in Aberdeen, Scotland. He received his B. A. at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University in 1965, and the following year the MA In 1969, he earned his D.Phil. at Oxford University. He stayed as a postdoctoral fellow, inter alia, at Cornell University and the University of Birmingham. In 1974 he was appointed as a lecturer to Birmingham. Since 1982 he has been Professor of Physics at Brown University.

1981 his research with the Maxwell Medal of the Institute of Physics, and in 2000 was awarded the Lars Onsager - Prize of the American Physical Society.

Selected Publications

  • JM Kosterlitz and DJ Thouless, Ordering, metastability, and phase transitions in two- dimensional systems. In: Journal of Physics C- Solid State Physics Volume 6, 1973, p 1181st
  • JM Kosterlitz: Critical properties of the two- dimensional XY model. In: Journal of Physics C- Solid State Physics Volume 7, 1974, p 1046.
  • JM Kim and JM Kosterlitz: Growth in a restricted solid -on -solid model. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 62, 1989, p 2289
  • F. Drolet, KR Elder, M. Grant and JM Kosterlitz: Phase -field Modeling of Eutectic Growth. In: Physical Review. Series E, Volume 61, 2000, p 6705th
Classical XY model Statistical mechanics University of Cambridge Maxwell Medal and Prize Lars Onsager Prize
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