Counting rule of Nambu-Goldstone modes for internal and spacetime symmetries: Bogoliubov theory approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework using Bogoliubov theory to accurately count Nambu-Goldstone modes, including their dispersion coefficients, applicable to complex symmetry-breaking scenarios in quantum many-body systems.

Contribution

The authors develop a novel, universally applicable method to count NGMs and their dispersion relations, even with additional zero modes or spacetime symmetry breaking, using $\sigma$-orthogonality and Bogoliubov transformations.

Findings

Framework successfully applied to spinor BECs

Identifies new phenomena such as type-I-type-II transition

Provides mathematical foundation for Bogoliubov quasiparticle analysis

Abstract

When continuous symmetry is spontaneously broken, there appear Nambu-Goldstone modes (NGMs) with linear and quadratic dispersion relations, which are called type-I and type-II, respectively. We propose a framework to count these modes including the coefficients of the dispersion relations with applying the standard Gross-Pitaevskii-Bogoliubov theory. Our method is mainly based on (i) zero-mode solutions of the Bogoliubov equation originated from spontaneous symmetry breaking and (ii) their generalized orthogonal relations, which naturally arises from well-known Bogoliubov transformations and is referred to as "$\sigma$-orthogonality" in this paper. Unlike previous works, our framework is applicable without any modification to the cases where there are additional zero modes, which do not have a symmetry origin, such as quasi-NGMs, and/or where spacetime symmetry is spontaneously broken in the presence of a topological soliton or a vortex. As a by-product of the formulation, we also give a compact summary for mathematics of bosonic Bogoliubov equations and Bogoliubov transformations, which becomes a foundation for any problem of Bogoliubov quasiparticles. The general results are illustrated by various examples in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). In particular, the result on the spin-3 BECs includes new findings such as a type-I-type-II transition and an increase of the type-II dispersion coefficient caused by a linearly-independent pair of zero modes.