European Journal of Physics
Zero-temperature perturbative calculation of the magnetic susceptibility of the free fermion system
S. Ciccariello, A. De Col
Abstract
Using the zero-temperature perturbative expansion, we show how to obtain the correct value of the magnetic susceptibility of a system of free fermions at zero temperature. To this aim, it is first observed that the Feynman rules for the perturbative expansion of the Green function substantially do not change when the ground state is substituted with a generic eigenstate of the unperturbed system. Then, the requirement that the resulting Green function has the correct Lehmann representation uniquely determines the unperturbed eigenstate which yields the interacting ground state by adiabatically switching on the interaction.