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Past exam of the quantum Condensed Matter Field Theory course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 1 b Solution by
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For each opposite-momentum pair use the Bogoliubov transformationEquivalently , , with . The identity preserves the canonical commutation relation. Vanishing anomalous terms require , and hence the Bogoliubov quasiparticle dispersion isSubstitution and normal ordering giveThis is the requested form after putting each inside the oscillator term. By momentum-pair counting in bosonic diagonalization, all sums cover the full nonzero-momentum set; no further factor of two is needed. The bosonic Bogoliubov zero-point shift combines the two vacuum sums before taking a continuum limit.
If smoothly, the low-energy excitations are gapless phonons:For contact repulsion, the healing length separates this regime from the particle-like regime . Stability requires for every nonzero mode. A general momentum-dependent interaction need not share the contact model's entire curve. An unregularized contact model also makes the vacuum-energy shift ultraviolet divergent; a physical finite-range interaction or scattering-length renormalization is needed for that absolute ground-state energy.
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