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Past exam of the quantum Condensed Matter Field Theory course of the University of Cambridge 2016 Paper 1 1 f Solution by
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For the easy-axis XXZ antiferromagnetic spin-wave spectrum, the consistent quadratic Hamiltonian in part (d) has and . The inverse transformation acts on the Nambu matrix by a congruence. Its diagonal and off-diagonal entries become and . The pair term vanishes whenFor the transformation is real and finite for every . Summing the two Nambu number operators over the full zone givesHere names the constant in the requested oscillator form; the actual quadratic ground-state energy is . This distinguishes the normal-ordering constant from the total zero-point contribution. bosonic Bogoliubov diagonalization is a canonical, not an ordinary unitary, diagonalization of the Nambu matrix.
At and , the same formula holds with . The exact zero modes have , so no finite squeezing angle diagonalizes them as positive-frequency oscillators. Treat collective rotations separately or retain a small anisotropy regulator before taking the limit. Finally, if one instead diagonalizes the literal erroneous printed matrix, it gives and . That result remains gapped at and is not the spin-wave spectrum of the Hamiltonian stated at the start.
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