Journal of Mathematical Physics
Excitation Spectrum of a Fermion System
Sadaaki Yanagawa
Abstract
By the method of ``modes'' introduced by Sawada, the excitation spectra of a fermion system with singular interactions have been obtained in three cases; (1) with one additional particle above and and one hole below the Fermi surface, (2) with one additional particle above the Fermi surface, and (3) with two particles above the Fermi surface. The argument holds not only for the system of low density (nuclear matter with a hard-core repulsion), but also for the case of the interacting electron gas in the high-density region. The results have been compared with the Brueckner-Goldstone perturbation-expansion formulas, by using diagrams in the second- and third-order of the expansion in interaction strength. We show that in the approximation of our treatment, the occupation probability function at temperature T has the same form as the Fermi distribution function.