At zero temperature, the Matsubara sum becomes a frequency integral:The frequency integral is , and radial momentum integration givesDefine the critical coupling by the massless equationTaking the cutoff to infinity in the difference givesand henceA positive mass solution exists only for . For , the symmetric saddle cannot enforce the constraint with ; instead the symmetry is spontaneously broken to , the field acquires Néel order, and the ordered phase contains massless Goldstone bosons.
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