A new approach to the two-time Green function method is proposed. In order to give a systematic way of decoupling the two-time Green functions and to overcome the difficulties often encountered in terminating the hierarchy of Green functions, a generating function is introduced and its properties are examined in detail for a simple model. It is shown that the generating function provides poweful tool even in the case where conventional approximation for Green functions does not work. An example of the generating function is constructed for Fermion system with two-body interaction.
A new approach to the two-time Green function method is proposed. In order to give a systematic way of decoupling the two-time Green functions and to overcome the difficulties often encountered in terminating the hierarchy of Green functions, a generating function is introduced and its properties are examined in detail for a simple model. It is shown that the generating function provides poweful tool even in the case where conventional approximation for Green functions does not work. An example of the generating function is constructed for Fermion system with two-body interaction.
The Green’s function method is among the most powerful and versatile formalisms in physics, and its nonequilibrium version has proved invaluable in many research fields. With entirely new chapters and updated example problems, the second edition of this popular text continues to provide an ideal introduction to nonequilibrium many-body quantum systems and ultrafast phenomena in modern science. Retaining the unique and self-contained style of the original, this new edition has been thoroughly revised to address interacting systems of fermions and bosons, simplified many-body approaches like the GKBA, the Bloch equations, and the Boltzmann equations, and the connection between Green’s functions and newly developed time-resolved spectroscopy techniques. Small gaps in the theory have been filled, and frequently overlooked subtleties have been systematically highlighted and clarified. With an abundance of illustrative examples, insightful discussions, and modern applications, this book remains the definitive guide for students and researchers alike.
The Green’s function method is among the most powerful and versatile formalisms in physics, and its nonequilibrium version has proved invaluable in many research fields. With entirely new chapters and updated example problems, the second edition of this popular text continues to provide an ideal introduction to nonequilibrium many-body quantum systems and ultrafast phenomena in modern science. Retaining the unique and self-contained style of the original, this new edition has been thoroughly revised to address interacting systems of fermions and bosons, simplified many-body approaches like the GKBA, the Bloch equations, and the Boltzmann equations, and the connection between Green’s functions and newly developed time-resolved spectroscopy techniques. Small gaps in the theory have been filled, and frequently overlooked subtleties have been systematically highlighted and clarified. With an abundance of illustrative examples, insightful discussions, and modern applications, this book remains the definitive guide for students and researchers alike.
In the usual theory of the two-time Green's function, decoupling techniques are introduced in order to obtain a self-closed equation for the lowest order Green's function. These decouplings give neither the correct temperature dependence (the absence of a T3 term) of magnetization nor the correct correlation function $〈{{S}_{j}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{{S}_{j}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{{S}_{k}}^{+}{{S}_{l}}^{+}〉$, which should be zero by definition. In this paper the equation of motion for the higher order Green's function is solved in the approximation which will lead to correct results up to terms of order T3 in these quantities. Employing this higher order Green's function, it is found that the correction to the magnetization consists of a term of order T4 and a divergent term and that the correlation function consists of a term of order T3 and a divergent term. A method extracting a significant part from this divergent term is found by analyzing a system of two interacting \textonehalf{} spins. By this method, it is shown that the T3 term in the magnetization is completely eliminated and that the correlation function $〈{{S}_{j}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{{S}_{j}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{{S}_{k}}^{+}{{S}_{l}}^{+}〉$ vanishes identically.
The Green’s function method is among the most powerful and versatile formalisms in physics, and its nonequilibrium version has proved invaluable in many research fields. With entirely new chapters and updated example problems, the second edition of this popular text continues to provide an ideal introduction to nonequilibrium many-body quantum systems and ultrafast phenomena in modern science. Retaining the unique and self-contained style of the original, this new edition has been thoroughly revised to address interacting systems of fermions and bosons, simplified many-body approaches like the GKBA, the Bloch equations, and the Boltzmann equations, and the connection between Green’s functions and newly developed time-resolved spectroscopy techniques. Small gaps in the theory have been filled, and frequently overlooked subtleties have been systematically highlighted and clarified. With an abundance of illustrative examples, insightful discussions, and modern applications, this book remains the definitive guide for students and researchers alike.
The Green’s function method is among the most powerful and versatile formalisms in physics, and its nonequilibrium version has proved invaluable in many research fields. With entirely new chapters and updated example problems, the second edition of this popular text continues to provide an ideal introduction to nonequilibrium many-body quantum systems and ultrafast phenomena in modern science. Retaining the unique and self-contained style of the original, this new edition has been thoroughly revised to address interacting systems of fermions and bosons, simplified many-body approaches like the GKBA, the Bloch equations, and the Boltzmann equations, and the connection between Green’s functions and newly developed time-resolved spectroscopy techniques. Small gaps in the theory have been filled, and frequently overlooked subtleties have been systematically highlighted and clarified. With an abundance of illustrative examples, insightful discussions, and modern applications, this book remains the definitive guide for students and researchers alike.