Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-advanced-quantum-theory-path-integrals-and-many-particle-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2017/2/a/solution

Interpret the two displayed exchange components as belonging to the common nearest-neighbour sum with coefficient . Write and, for , . The source explicitly fixes but does not separately constrain in this question; keeping covers either field direction.
For classical vectors of length , define . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives , and . Each term is therefore bounded below, so
Uniform alignment along the field saturates every bound:
Equality requires all planar vectors to be parallel with length , and the nonzero field then fixes their direction. At , every uniformly oriented vector in the plane is a classical ground state:
A nonuniform configuration cannot improve these simultaneously saturated bond bounds, including on the periodic ring.

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