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Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A

Gruppentheoretische Untersuchung der Bogoljubov — Valatin-Transformation und des HFB-Zustandes / Group Theoretical Investigation of the Bogoljubov—Valatin Transformation and the HFB State

Heinz Günter Becker

Published Apr 1, 1973• 3 citations
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Abstract

Abstract The structure of the Bogoljubov -Valatin transformation and the HFB state is investigated by group-theoretical methods. A direct proof of the Bloch-Messiah factorization theorem shows that the second factor which contains the BCS part of the BV transformation can be chosen always real. An unitary representation of the Bogoljubov-Valatin group in the Fock space is constructed which allows to write down various equivalent expressions for the HFB state vector. The relation between the "unitary form" and the usual form of | HFB〉 is clarified using the "quasispin" concept in connection with a theorem about the factorization of the D(3) Lie group.

DOI
10.1515/zna-1973-3-402

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This paper describes a general group theoretical analysis of the temperature–Hartree-Fock–Bogoliubov (HFB) equation and its solution. The action of the symmetry group G0 of the system on the HFB Hamiltonian, the HFB density matrix, and the HFB Green function are defined. It is shown that the HFB equation and its solution is classified by a subgroup G of G0, which is the invariance group of the HFB Hamiltonian, the HFB density matrix, and the HFB Green function corresponding the solution. General expression of the instability of a solution and its decomposition into R-rep (single-valued irreducible representation over the real number field) components of the invariance group of the solution are obtained. The self-consistent field (SCF) condition is decomposed into R-rep components of G0.