Reentrant $d=2+1$ Superfluidity at High Temperature

Abstract

We present a UV-complete model with a global $U(1)$ symmetry in $d=2+1$ dimensions that exhibits a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) ordered phase at arbitrarily high temperatures. A careful separation of scales yields a two-dimensional Euclidean effective field theory whose construction remains perturbatively controlled even when its soft modes become strongly coupled. We determine the BKT phase boundary by carefully matching this theory to existing lattice Monte Carlo results. The high-temperature phase supports gapless static modes and algebraically decaying correlations even as $T\to \infty$.

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