Solution

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For nonzero field, the spin-wave ground state is the vacuum of all . The inverse Bogoliubov transformation gives and vanishing one-point oscillator averages. Translational invariance therefore gives the depletion
Rotating back to the physical axes yields, to the retained spin-wave order,
The zero transverse components also follow from rotation by about the physical axis in a symmetry-preserving ground state. The nonzero depletion describes zero-point quantum fluctuations: the original boson vacuum is not the ground state because the anomalous terms create pairs. It is nonnegative and must satisfy for the expansion to be reliable. At strong field it tends to zero, with in the infinite-chain limit.
For fixed , the momentum sum has a finite thermodynamic limit obtained by . At zero field the uniform mode already has no oscillator vacuum, as explained in part d. Even after removing that mode, the nonzero modes behave as
Thus assigning a finite ordered moment by simply setting in the infinite momentum sum is invalid. The divergence indicates failure of this expansion about a fixed planar orientation; it is not a negative physical magnetization. At finite size an exact zero-field state chosen to have definite total has zero planar one-point magnetization by the continuous rotation symmetry. Establishing its full correlations requires a treatment beyond the divergent ordered-state approximation.

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