Published December 4, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Many-Body Green Function of Degenerate Systems

  • 1. Institut de Mineralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condenses, CNRS UMR 7590, Universites Paris 6 et 7, IPGP, 140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris (France)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma (Italy)
  • 3. Universite Paris Est, CERMICS, Projet MICMAC ENPC-INRIA, 6 and 8 Avenue Pascal, 77455 Marne-la-Vallee Cedex 2 (France)

Description

A rigorous nonperturbative adiabatic approximation of the evolution operator in the many-body physics of degenerate systems is derived. This approximation is used to solve the long-standing problem of the choice of the initial states of H0 leading to eigenstates of H0+V for degenerate systems. These initial states are eigenstates of P0VP0, where P0 is the projection onto a degenerate eigenspace of H0. This result is used to give the proper definition of the Green function, the statistical Green function and the nonequilibrium Green function of degenerate systems. The convergence of these Green functions is established.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
103
Journal Issue
23
Journal Page Range
p. 230401-230401.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41101327
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Descriptors DEI
ADIABATIC APPROXIMATION; CONVERGENCE; EIGENSTATES; GREEN FUNCTION; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MATHEMATICAL EVOLUTION
Descriptors DEC
APPROXIMATIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONS

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