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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 16, 2013
Justification of c-number substitutions in bosonic Hamiltonians
Elliott H Lieb1, Robert Seiringer, Jakob Yngvason
1Department of Physics, Jadwin Hall, Princeton University, P.O. Box 708, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Abstract:
The validity of substituting a c-number z for the k=0 mode operator a(0) is established rigorously in full generality, thereby verifying one aspect of Bogoliubov's 1947 theory. This substitution not only yields the correct value of thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure or ground state energy, but also the value of |z|(2) that maximizes the partition function equals the true amount of condensation in the presence of a gauge-symmetry-breaking term. This point had previously been elusive.
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