Bosonic Nambu normal-ordering shift

ID: bosonic-nambu-normal-ordering-shift

In a bosonic Nambu spinor expression, the second diagonal entry commonly contains . The canonical commutation relations add one constant per mode when this is normal ordered. For an antiferromagnetic chain coefficient , rewriting the quadratic Hamiltonian as a full Nambu sum therefore changes the exterior constant from to . Omitting the shift corrupts the ground-state energy even when the dispersion is unchanged.

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