Use throughout. Let , and . Operators belonging to different boson species commute. The proposed Schwinger boson representation gives
Consequently the first of the spin commutation relations is
The number operator commutators , and their counterparts give
Thus all the spin commutation relations hold. Also : each fixed- sector is invariant. To identify its spin, calculate the Casimir operator:
The irreducible spin representation with prescribed therefore requires , and its normalized Fock basis correspondence is
Conversely, and . The nonnegative integer occupation numbers give precisely , and there are such states. As a check, the spin raising operator acts as
which is the usual spin ladder operator coefficient .
For a lattice of fixed spins, the local spin constraint in the Schwinger boson representation is essential:
The full two-species bosonic Fock space also contains other local irreducible spin representations; fixing only the total boson number does not remove them.
For the specified positive-exponent discrete Fourier transform, the inverse discrete Fourier transforms have negative exponents:
Every sum runs over , . Indeed, orthogonality of roots of unity gives
so substituting the forward discrete Fourier transform into either proposed inverse recovers the original operator. Taking Hermitian conjugates supplies the inverse formulas for the creation operators.
Multiplying the inverse discrete Fourier transforms gives the local number operator combination
This local expression includes off-diagonal momentum terms. Only after summing over sites does orthogonality of roots of unity give
In a physical fixed- state the first boxed operator acts as at every site, by the local spin constraint in the Schwinger boson representation.
Use . The given state is a two-species uniform boson number state: only the mode of each species is occupied. Applying an annihilation operator to an unoccupied mode gives zero, while has eigenvalue . Thus
The two species have independent fixed occupation numbers, so mixed expectation values factorize. The inverse discrete Fourier transforms yield
In the momentum-space Hamiltonian operator, only contributes: each annihilation operator must remove an occupied boson, and each creation operator must restore it to the same mode. Hence
There is no replacement of by in this energy: in the real-space calculation the relevant neighboring-site commutator is zero. Both expressions assume distinct neighbouring sites, as in ii.
To match the prescribed spin length in the mean, impose . At fixed integer , the energy is minimized by maximizing . Consequently the best choices within this relaxed family are
When is even, and . When is odd, either assignment of gives . Without fixing , this auxiliary boson Hamiltonian operator has no lower bound: taking sends its expectation value to .
Next, . Each term changes the two species' occupation numbers, producing a state orthogonal to . Therefore
For distinct sites modulo , expand the product of the two spin operators. The terms and again have zero expectation value. The remaining terms give
Here and the Kronecker delta vanishes at distinct sites. Consequently
The same holds for the components. At the balanced choice and as , each transverse two-point correlation function tends to independently of separation, whereas the one-point transverse magnetization is zero. This is transverse spin order in a number eigenstate: the state has a definite total and retains the global U(1) symmetry of rotations about , yet has the transverse correlations of an ordered state with no selected common azimuth. The sum of the and correlations tends to , describing ferromagnetic long-range order within this approximation. The thermodynamic limit is understood with both the separation and growing, without identifying the two sites periodically.
Fixed-spin qualification. The proposed state is not actually in the physical fixed- Hilbert space for . It satisfies the local spin constraint in the Schwinger boson representation only in expectation value. For example, with ,
The nonzero component has local total occupation numbers and hence local spins , instead of . More generally the local total number operator has variance
Each species contributes a binomial distribution at a given site, with success probability , and the two contributions are independent. In the physical subspace that variance must be zero. The proposed state even has
by the Casimir operator identity from a. Thus the calculated energy is a relaxed mean-field theory estimate, not a Rayleigh-Ritz variational principle bound for the stated fixed- quantum XY chain. Projecting onto at every site would give a physical trial state and generally change its expectation values; in the two-site example the projected state has energy , whereas the unprojected value is . The calculated long-range order characterizes the supplied approximation and does not establish long-range order in the exact one-dimensional ground state.