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Progress of Theoretical Physics

A Formal Theory of Collective Behavior

Kazuo Hiroike

Published Jan 1, 1960• 1 citation
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Abstract

The method of auxiliary variables is generalized so as to be applicable to the systems having strong interparticle interactions or obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics. The ground state energy and the excitation energy specrum are calculated to the zeroth approximation. It is shown that Feynman's relation for liquid helium and Tomonaga's expression for a one-dimensional Fermi gas can be derived as the special cases of the present theory. The theory is applied also to the classical statistical mechanics.

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10.1143/ptp.23.41

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The method of auxiliary variables is generalized so as to be applicable to the systems having strong interparticle interactions or obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics. The ground state energy and the excitation energy specrum are calculated to the zeroth approximation. It is shown that Feynman's relation for liquid helium and Tomonaga's expression for a one-dimensional Fermi gas can be derived as the special cases of the present theory. The theory is applied also to the classical statistical mechanics.
By introducing a number of auxiliary variables, quantum-mechanical collective and internal motions in a Bose system are described. In a collective representation obtained here, the wave functions are expressed as functions of the auxiliary variables and the internal coordinates. The energy for the ground state and the excitation energies of collective motion and internal motion are obtained for the case of a long-range interaction potential. The lowest energy obtained proves to be smaller than that afforded by the Hartree-Fock approximation. The excitations of the collective motion with smaller wave numbers than a cut-off wave number kc correspond to Landau's phonons. The excitations of the internal motion resemble Landau's rotons; but they are forbidden for the smaller wave numbers K ≦ kc. When one applies this method to the problem of liquid helium, it becomes necessary to take account of the two-body correlation of individual particles. It is pointed out that the phonon energy depends upon the zero-point motion of the individual particles.
Low-lying excitations in a liquid or a solid are considered to have a long lifetime and to obey the Bose or Fermi statistics. They will be called "quasiparticles" in general. The low-lying energy levels of the system are considered to be characterized by a set of occupation numbers of the quasiparticles. The expressions for the grand partition function and the distribution function (the average occupation number) of the quasiparticles have the same structure as that for the classical lattice gas, under a nonuniform external field and with two-, three-,..., body interactions. Therefore the virial expansion formula for the classical lattice gas can be applied to the system of quasiparticles. The result is simplified by assuming that the energy correction due to the simultaneous excitations of two, three,..., nnn quasiparticles are of $O({V}^{\ensuremath{-}1}),O({V}^{\ensuremath{-}2}),\ensuremath{\cdots},O({V}^{\ensuremath{-}n+1})$, respectively, where VVV is the volume of the system. The resulting expression for the distribution function of the quasiparticles is either a Fermi or a Bose distribution function with an effective energy. The expression for the entropy in terms of the distribution function is the same as that for an ideal gas. This shows that Landau's formula for the distribution function of quasiparticles for a Fermi liquid is valid under conditions which are more general and more practical than those given by Landau. Finally the situation in the Husimi-Temperley model is discussed in comparison with that in the Ising model from the point of view of the present formulation.
Abstract It is well known that a new form of statistical mechanics has been recently developed by Einstein for an ideal gas of structureless mass-points. This starts from a discussion by Bose of the laws of temperature radiation based on the light quantum hypothesis, and has been further analysed by Schrödinger. Yet another new form has been proposed independently by Fermi and Dirac. The latter based his theory on a discussion of lightly coupled systems with the help of Schrödinger’s equation. Combined with Heisenberg’s work on the many-body problem, Dirac’s work forces us to conclude at least that the classical form of statistical mechanics must be changed. It indicates that the true form, which satisfies the laws of the new mechanics, is almost certainly that of Fermi and Dirac, which is the natural generalization of Pauli’s principle of exclusion for electronic orbits in an atom. The work of Heisenberg and Dirac already quoted has shown that Pauli’s principle and its extension are satisfied in the new mechanics by a complete self-consistent solution of the equations of motion. So far as I am aware, the discussions of the new forms have as yet dealt only with the statistics of a gas of structureless mass-points (and, of course, temperature radiation). There has, moreover, been as yet no attempt to define the entropy (and the absolute temperature) in strict analogy with rational thermodynamics by means of the equation dQ = TdS. If another definition is preferred, then this equation must be deduced from it. It has, therefore, seemed worth while to reopen the discussion by examining ab initio a quite general form of statistical mechanics of which the classical form and instein’s and Fermi-Dirac’s are special cases. This is rendered possible by using the powerful method of complex integration already applied to the classical form. The sequence of the argument is then to take the general form, which covers a very large range of ways of assigning possibilities and counting complexions, and construct on that basis exact integral expressions for the number of complexions possible to the assembly and for the average number of systems of the assembly in their various quantum states. We then derive from these the average energies and external reactions and so the form of dQ, deduce from dQ the existence of S and so define S and T. This can be done in the general form for assemblies of ideal systems just as general as can be handled in the classical way—ideal gases of molecules of any structure and crystals and radiation. Such assemblies are in all cases thermodynamical systems.
An alternative approach to the quantum statistics of interacting particles is proposed. It consists of calculating the equilibrium thermodynamical quantities of the many-body system via the pair distribution function with the assumption that the particles interact with each other only through pair central forces. The proposed approach has some advantage over the usual treatment via the partition function in that the pair distribution function is easier to deal with than the partition function in certain circumstances particularly when the collective motion description of the system is desirable. This is because only the pair distribution function can be expressed directly in terms of the collective interaction which is closely connected with collective elementary excitation, such as a plasmon in the electron gas and a phonon in the hard-sphere Boson gas. The equation of state as well as the internal energy are obtained in the form of integrals of the pair distribution function. The close analogy between the pair distribution function and the two-body propagator, which appears in the quantum field theory, makes it possible to analyze the former by the use of Feynman diagrams identical with those usually introduced for the latter. The collective interaction, which is defined by the sum of the direct and the indirect interactions, is introduced as a particular partial sum of the perturbation series of the pair distribution function. This is used in rewriting the pair distribution function in terms of the collective interaction.It is shown that, while the simple chain approximation to the collective interaction in the electron gas is responsible for the transfer of a plasmon, the same approximation to the collective pseudo-interaction in the hard-sphere Boson system has a relation similar to that of transfer of a phonon, both cases occuring at low temperatures. The explicit calculation of the pair distribution functions for these systems at the absolute zero temperature is carried out up to the first order in the collective interaction (simple chain approximation.) These results are used to calculate the ground-state energies. For the electron gas the energy thus obtained confirms Gell-Mann-Bruckner's calculation of the correlation energy. For the hard-sphere Bosons the calculated energy reproduces the result of Lee, Huang, and Yang. The extension of the calculation to the finite temperature case is also indicated. In particular the classical Debye-Huckel equation of state for the electron gas is briefly discussed.
The collective approach to a Fermi gas is discussed by considering the wave functions of non-interacting Fermi gases in one and three dimensions, and of the interacting Fermi gas. It is shown how to write the one-dimensional case exactly in terms of collective coordinates, and how these have a well defined existence for long wavelengths even without interaction. This is extended as far as possible to three dimensions, and it is shown how the statistics affect the collective motion in the presence of interaction. A brief discussion is given of how calculations may be performed when redundant sets of coordinates are used.