Massless Phases for the Villain model in $d\ge 3$

Abstract

We consider the classical Villain rotator model in ${\mathbb{Z}}^d,d\ge 3$ at sufficiently low temperature, and prove that the truncated two-point function decays asymptotically as $|x{|}^{2-d}$, with an algebraic rate of convergence. We also obtain the same asymptotic decay separately for the transversal two-point functions. This quantifies the spontaneous magnetization result for the Villain model at low temperature, and rigorously establishes the Gaussian spin-wave conjecture in dimension $d\ge 3$. We believe that our method extends to finite range interactions and to other abelian spin systems and abelian gauge theory in $d\ge 3$.

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