Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2024 / iii / Paper 344 / 1 / a / Solution

Use the Fourier transform conventionThe zero mode vanishes because the compositional order parameter has zero spatial average. Parseval identity and the Fourier transform of a derivative turn the quadratic part of the dimensionless free energy intoHere ${\sum }_{\mathbf{q}}^{+}$ is the positive-wavevector sum for a real field. Each independent complex amplitude has density proportional to $e^{-G(q)|{\varphi }_{\mathbf{q}}{|}^2}$, so its elementary Gaussian integral gives the static structure factorwhenever $G(q)>0$.

The stationary points of the Brazovskii model kernel obeyBecause $\kappa <0<\gamma$, the nonzero minimum is the nonzero-wavevector soft-mode sphereAt this wavevector,The first Gaussian field theory divergence therefore occurs at