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Physical Review A

Particle-hole formulation of the unitary group approach to the many-electron correlation problem. I. State construction and classification

Josef Paldus, M. J. Boyle

Published Dec 1, 1980• 52 citations
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Abstract

A hole-particle version of the unitary group approach to the many-electron correlation problem is given. To achieve a unique state labeling, the subgroup chain of Flores and Moshinsky for the nuclear many-body problem is modified, and the rules for the construction of relevant irreducible representations and of the orthonormal spinadapted states are given. The structure of these hole-particle formalism spin-adapted bases is illustrated on several examples for all the three possible types of the hole-particle defect pertaining to the excitation, electron attachment, or detachment processes relative to the reference state used. The tensor character of the particle formalism electron-number-preserving generators is pointed out, and their basic classification in the hole-particle formalism is given.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.22.2299

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Abstract The representation of an N‐electron Schrödinger Hamiltonian on an orthonormal, spin‐free (freon) orbital product space is exactly modeled by a second‐degree polynomial in the infinitesimal generators of the unitary group. Symmetry adaptation of the orbital product space with respect to the symmetric group yields Gel'fand states which provide base for irreducible represntations of the unitary group. These exist in closed form as, in consequence, does the representation of the model Hamiltonian in this same basis. We retain as physical only those states characterized by tableaux with no more than two columns for which the spin labelling is one‐half the difference in the lengths of the two columns. The unitary group formulation is equivalent to standard, number‐conserving, second‐quantized, many‐body theory.
The representation of an N-particle Hamiltonian on an Nth rank orbital product space is exactly modeled by a second-degree polynomial in the infinitesimal generators of the unitary group. Symmetry adaptation of the product space with respect to the symmetric group yields Gel'fand states which are bases for the irreducible representations of the unitary group. These exist in closed form, as, in consequence, does the representation of the model Hamiltonian. The exclusion principle is imposed by restricting the irreducible representations of the unitary group. The unitary group formulation is equivalent to standard many-body theory for the particle-conserving case.