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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 81 1 e Solution by
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Apply a discrete Fourier transform, with lattice spacing one:The wavevectors lie in a Brillouin zone, which we choose as . Pairing with makes the quadratic HamiltonianA bosonic Bogoliubov diagonalization uses . The canonical commutation relations hold because . The anomalous terms vanish when , givingNear and , the dispersion relation is linear: . These are the low-energy antiferromagnetic spin waves; the two zeroes are related by the two-sublattice description. The transformation is singular at the exact zero modes, which require an infrared regulator or separate treatment of the collective rotation.
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