One-dimensional planar spin-wave depletion 2026-10-25
The Bogoliubov vacuum has original-boson occupation , reducing the ordered spin by its average over momenta. For the zero-field planar ferromagnetic chain, . Even after excluding the exact uniform zero mode, the sum grows as . It invalidates a thermodynamic fixed-orientation expansion with finite dilute depletion; it does not represent a negative physical magnetization.
The Holstein–Primakoff transformation realizes a spin algebra using bosonic creation operators and bosonic annihilation operators. A boson counts a unit of spin deviation from the local positive quantization axis: with . The square root in supplies the correct spin-ladder matrix elements. In particular,Their commutator is on every physical number state, reproducing the Spin commutation relations. Although the oscillator Fock space is infinite, the physical subspace is onlyThe order of the square root and oscillator operator matters in obtaining these coefficients.
When the spin deviations are dilute, expand the square root in . The leading transverse operators are linear in the bosonic creation operators and bosonic annihilation operators and turn exchange interactions into a quadratic Hamiltonian, which can be diagonalized. Higher powers describe interactions between spin waves. The method therefore organizes corrections by inverse powers of about an ordered classical configuration. Large alone is insufficient: the average depletion must remain small compared with . Possible problems include the occupation constraint after truncation, noncollinear order requiring site-dependent axis rotations, zero modes, and infrared fluctuations that destroy the assumed dilute expansion.
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 depletionRotating 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 asThus 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.
The Holstein–Primakoff transformation realizes a spin algebra using bosonic creation operators and bosonic annihilation operators. A boson counts a unit of spin deviation from the local positive quantization axis: with . The square root in supplies the correct spin-ladder matrix elements. In particular,Their commutator is on every physical number state, reproducing the Spin commutation relations. Although the oscillator Fock space is infinite, the physical subspace is onlyThe order of the square root and oscillator operator matters in obtaining these coefficients.
When the spin deviations are dilute, expand the square root in . The leading transverse operators are linear in the bosonic creation operators and bosonic annihilation operators and turn exchange interactions into a quadratic Hamiltonian, which can be diagonalized. Higher powers describe interactions between spin waves. The method therefore organizes corrections by inverse powers of about an ordered classical configuration. Large alone is insufficient: the average depletion must remain small compared with . Possible problems include the occupation constraint after truncation, noncollinear order requiring site-dependent axis rotations, zero modes, and infrared fluctuations that destroy the assumed dilute expansion.
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 depletionRotating 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 asThus 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.

