Physical Review A
High cost of consistency in Green’s-function expansions
Andrew David Jackson, R. A. Smith
Abstract
In many-body theory, the single-particle self-energy can be constructed from the two-body vertex, the single-particle Green's function, and the interaction in a well-known way. Functional differentiation of the self-energy leads back to the two-body vertex. Given a set of two-body vertex diagrams, the process of constructing self-energy diagrams and functionally differentiating them generates a second set of two-body vertex diagrams. If the initial set of diagrams includes the noninteracting two-body Green's function, the two sets will be equal if and only if the initial set includes all diagrams. We discuss this result from the perspective of the parquet theory.