Coupled cluster analysis of model non-adiabetic Hamiltonians

Christopher J. N. Coveney, David P. Tew

We present the diagrammatic theory of the irreducible self-energy and Bethe-Salpeter kernel that naturally arises within the Green’s function formalism for a general N -body non-Hermitian interaction. In this work, we focus specifically on the coupled-cluster (CC) self-energy generated by the similarity transformation of the electronic structure Hamiltonian. The main result of this work is a Green’s function formalism for non-Hermitian many-body quantum systems. We develop the biorthogonal quantum theory to construct dynamical correlation functions where the time dependence of operators is governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We extend the Gell-Mann and Low theorem to include non-Hermitian interactions and to generate perturbative expansions of many-body Green’s functions. We introduce the single-particle coupled-cluster Green’s function and derive the perturbative diagrammatic expansion for the non-Hermitian coupled-cluster self-energy in terms of the “noninteracting” reference Green’s function, Σ ̃ [ G 0 ] . From the exact equation of motion of the single-particle coupled-cluster Green’s function, we derive the self-consistent renormalized coupled-cluster self-energy, Σ ̃ [ G ̃ ] , and demonstrate its relationship to the perturbative expansion of the self-energy, Σ ̃ [ G 0 ] . Subsequently, we show that the usual electronic self-energy can be recovered from the coupled-cluster self-energy by neglecting the effects of the similarity transformation. We show how the coupled-cluster ground-state energy can be obtained from the coupled-cluster self-energy and provide an overview of the relationship between approximations for the coupled-cluster self-energy, ionization potential/electron affinity equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory, and the G 0 W 0 approximation. As a result, we introduce the CC- G 0 W 0 self-energy by leveraging the connections between Green’s function and coupled-cluster theory. Finally, we derive the diagrammatic expansion of the coupled-cluster Bethe-Salpeter kernel.

D. G. Kanhere, Mihir Arjunwadkar

Clive Emary

The Rabi Hamiltonian is a simple, yet non-trivial model of light-matter interactions. Here we present a brief review of the application of the normal coupled cluster method (NCCM) to this model. We concentrate on the NCCM description of the excitation spectrum and of simple time evolutions of the system, providing a link between the two that limits the accuracy of NCCM dynamical calculations in practice.

Clive Emary

DAMIAN J. J. FARNELL, Andrew I. Croudace

The coupled cluster method (CCM) has previously been applied to study the ground- and excited-state properties of many different types of frustrated and unfrustrated quantum spin systems. A common feature in the application of the CCM is to rotate the local spin axes of the (often classical) model state so that (notationally only) the spins all appear to point in the downwards $z$-direction. Hitherto, we remark that only coplanar model states have been used because they do not lead to imaginary terms in the new Hamiltonian. By contrast, non-coplanar "three-dimensional" (3D) model states can lead to imaginary terms in the new Hamiltonian after rotation. In principle, however, macroscopic quantities predicted by the CCM (such as the ground-state energy and order parameter) should still be real (even though the Hamiltonian may be complex) because the transformations of local spin axes are unitary. Here we explain how we may use such 3D model states for the CCM and how we may solve for the (now possibly complex) CCM correlation coefficients. We present results for the spin-half triangular-lattice antiferromagnet in an external magnetic field. We use both coplanar model states and a single 3D non-coplanar model state. We calculate the ground-state energy and the lattice magnetisation as a function of the magnetic field strength. We find that the energies of the coplanar states lie lower than that of the non-coplanar state for all values of the external field, as seen in other approximate studies for this model. We find that the non-coplanar state does not detect the well-known spin plateau occurring in this model, although (as seen before) it is clearly observed for the coplanar model states using the CCM. These results are an excellent initial validation of the new approach for the application of the CCM using 3D model states.

Isaiah Shavitt, Rodney J. Bartlett