40 years of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless theory

Early Work on Defect Driven Phase Transitions (J Michael Kosterlitz and David J Thouless); Duality, Gauge Symmetries, Renormalization Group and the BKT Transition (Jorge V Jose); The Two-Dimensional Fully Frustrated XY Model (Stephen Teitel); Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition Through the Eyes of Duality (G Ortiz, E Cobanera and Z Nussinov); The Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition in Superconductors (A M Goldman); Charges and Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays (Rosario Fazio and Gert Schon); Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition within the Sine - Gordon Approach: The Role of the Vortex-Core Energy (Lara Benfatto, Claudio Castellani and Thierry Giamarchi); Superinsulator - Superconductor Duality in Two Dimensions and Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless Transition (Valerii M Vinokur and Tatyana I Baturina); BKT Physics with Two-Dimensional Atomic Gases (Zoran Hadzibabic and Jean Dalibard); Vortex Physics in the Quantum Hall Bilayer (H A Fertig and Ganpathy Murthy).