A Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT)-type transition in the one-dimensional S =1/2 XXZ model at the ground state is analyzed using the double-cluster approximation (DCA) and the coherent-anomaly method (CAM). It is numerically shown that the periodic-boundary condition (PBC) is suitable for the construction of a systematic series of cluster approximations in quantum antiferromagnets. The transition point and the exponent of the essential singularity are estimated as g c * ≃0.9969 and σ≃0.527, which are in good agreement with the exact values, g c * =1 and σ=0.5, respectively. Such accuracy of estimation is due to the consideration of a power-law factor in front of the exponential singularity of \barχ, which had been neglected until now.
Transport properties of the classical antiferromagnetic XXZ model on the square lattice have been theoretically investigated, putting emphasis on how the occurrence of a phase transition is reflected in spin and thermal transports. As is well known, the anisotropy of the exchange interaction $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}\ensuremath{\equiv}{J}_{z}/{J}_{x}$ plays a role to control the universality class of the transition of the model, i.e., either a second-order transition at
TN into a magnetically ordered state or the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition at
TKT, which respectively occur for the Ising-type ($\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}>1$) and XY-type ($\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}<1$) anisotropies, while for the isotropic Heisenberg case of $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}=1$, a phase transition does not occur at any finite temperature. It is found by means of the hybrid Monte Carlo and spin-dynamics simulations that the spin current probes the difference in the ordering properties, while the thermal current does not. For the XY-type anisotropy, the longitudinal spin-current conductivity ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xx}^{s}$ ($={\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{yy}^{s}$) exhibits a divergence at
TKT of the exponential form ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xx}^{s}\ensuremath{\propto}exp\left[B/\sqrt{T/{T}_{\text{KT}}\ensuremath{-}1}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\right]$ with
B=O(1), while for the Ising-type anisotropy, the temperature dependence of ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xx}^{s}$ is almost monotonic without showing a clear anomaly at
TN and such a monotonic behavior is also the case in the Heisenberg-type spin system. The significant enhancement of ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{xx}^{s}$ at
TKT is found to be due to the exponential rapid growth of the spin-current relaxation time toward
TKT, which can be understood as a manifestation of the topological nature of a vortex whose lifetime is expected to get longer toward
TKT. Possible experimental platforms for the spin-transport phenomena associated with the KT topological transition are discussed.