I am reading Coleman's "Introduction to many-body physics" and am working on problem 4.2, which involves calculating the spectrum of the transverse-field Ising model. We start with the Hamiltonian I have successfully used a Jordan-Wigner transformation to turn it into fermion creation/annihilation operators as Then I Fourier transformed this Hamiltonian to get where . The textbook says the sum should be only over half of the Brillouin zone , but I don't understand why.
Transverse field Ising model - why is the sum restricted to half of the Brillouin zone?
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