Signatures of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition on the zeros of the canonical partition function for the 2D XY-model

In this work we show that the canonical partition function zeros, the Fisher zeros, can be used to uniquely characterize a transition as being in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) class of universality. By studying the zeros map for the 2D XY model we found that its internal border coalesces into the real positive axis in a finite region corresponding to temperatures smaller than the BKT transition temperature. This behavior is consistent with the predicted existence of a line of critical points below the transition temperature, allowing one to distinguish the BKT class of universality from other ones.