Coherent States as a Tool for Obtaining Rigorous Bounds

Louis J. Kijewski, Jerome K. Percus

Variation principles for obtaining lower bounds by means of density matrices are applied to a number of many-body problems. This is done by means of restrictions derived from the study of exacly solvable models. Two classes of problems are considered: (a) obtaining a lower bound to the ground-state energy of a system of particles, and (b) obtaining a lower bound to the Helmholtz free energy. For the first case an exact lower bound is obtained for the ground-state energy of the particle-conserving Bogoliubov Hamiltonian. Of particular significance in the nonzero temperature case is a rigorous lower bound to the free energy of the Ising model with small external field at low temperatures.

Élliott H. Lieb

Roser Valent�, Claudius Gros, P. J. Hirschfeld +1 more

We show that upper and lower bounds on the ground-state energy of models describing correlated Fermi systems may be combined to produce bounds on the ground-state magnetization and chemical potential. Such bounds are obtainable through standard variational techniques and through recently developed methods involving exact diagonalization of finite-size clusters. For the Hubbard model on the square lattice, we give rigorous bounds for the magnetization at nonzero magnetic field B and for the chemical potential at nonzero hole density 1-n. The quality of these bounds degrades as B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0 and n\ensuremath{\rightarrow}1, precluding rigorous statements about the stability of the ferromagnetic state or the existence of a Mott-Hubbard gap. Nevertheless, the tendency towards large-U ferromagnetism and localization is evident. We discuss ways of improving these bounds, including the use of kinetic frustration, nonuniform clusters, and averaging over boundary conditions.

Jean-Pierre Antoine, Bagarello, Fabio, Jean‐Pierre Gazeau

J. -P. Antoine

Roser Valent�, P. J. Hirschfeld, J C Anglès d'Auriac

We show that the thermodynamic potential E-\ensuremath{\mu}N of an itinerant interacting Fermi system is bounded below by the sum of the thermodynamic potentials of small subsystems into which the infinite system is partitioned. Exact lower bounds for the energy in the thermodynamic limit are therefore easily obtainable by diagonalization of small clusters. In one dimension, these bounds are remarkably close to Bethe-ansatz results for the Hubbard model. We present lower bounds for the two-dimensional Hubbard and t-J Hamiltonians. Such bounds may serve as rigorous tests for approximate treatments of this class of problems.