Decay of correlations in 2D quantum systems with continuous symmetry (Q2408137)

The authors study a large class of models of two-dimensional quantum lattice systems with continuous symmetries, where the latttice is not necessarily regular (two-dimensional graphs are admitted). The main goal of the paper is to propose a general setting accommodating many models of interest and prove a general result concerning the decay of correlations. In section 6 a proof is given of the McBryan-Spencer-Koma-Tasaki theorem concerning algebraic decay of correlations, generalizing earlier works on this subject, [\textit{A. Naddaf}, Commun. Math. Phys. 184, No. 2, 387--395 (1997; Zbl 0873.60086); \textit{T. Koma} and \textit{H. Tasaki}, ``Decay of superconducting and magnetic correlations in one- and two-dimensional Hubbard models'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, No. 21, 3248--3251 (1992; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3248})]. This main theorem (Theorem 6.1), formulated in the context of general models with \(\mathrm{U}(1)\) symmetry, makes various other theorems of Section 2--4 of the paper, its straightforward applications. Exemplary models are the Heisenberg, Hubbard, and t-J models, and certain models of random loops. In the introduction, a brief exposition is given of earlier results on the absence of coontinuous symmetry breaking, that of the absence of long range order and incongruencies between the logarithmic decay of two-point correlations and the expected -- by various reasons -- power-law decay. An open problem remains to find a proof for bosonic systems, like, e.g., the Bode-Hubbard model, where the present method does not generalize in a straightforward way. .