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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 337 1 d Solution by
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For bosonic Matsubara frequencies , set . Applying the residue theorem to , whose integer poles reproduce the desired summands, givesIt follows thatUsing the area of the unit sphere, the thermal phase fluctuation becomesAt small , , so the infrared divergence is governed by . It diverges for and is finite for . Therefore short-range systems cannot have true finite-temperature breaking of this continuous symmetry in one or two dimensions, in agreement with the Mermin-Wagner theorem, whereas it is allowed in three dimensions. In two dimensions a Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition may still produce quasi-long-range order.
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