One of the useful and practical methods for solving quantum-mechanical many- body systems is to recast the full problem into a form of the effective interaction acting within a model space of tractable size. Many of the effective-interaction theories in nuclear physics have been formulated by use of the so called box introduced by Kuo et. al. It has been one of the central problems how to calculate the box accurately' and efficiently. Introducing new basis states, the Hamiltonian is transformed to a block-tridiagonal form in terms of submatrices with small dimension. With the transformed Hamiltonian we derive a recursion method of calculating the box non-perturbatively and analytically. The box given in this study corresponds to a non-perturbative solution for the energy-dependent. Hamiltonian interaction which is often referred to as the Bloch-Horowitz or the Feshbach form. The present approach has a possibility of resolving many of the theoretical and practical difficulties encountered in the calculation of effective-interaction and/or Hamiltonian.
One of the useful and practical methods for solving quantum-mechanical many- body systems is to recast the full problem into a form of the effective interaction acting within a model space of tractable size. Many of the effective-interaction theories in nuclear physics have been formulated by use of the so called box introduced by Kuo et. al. It has been one of the central problems how to calculate the box accurately' and efficiently. Introducing new basis states, the Hamiltonian is transformed to a block-tridiagonal form in terms of submatrices with small dimension. With the transformed Hamiltonian we derive a recursion method of calculating the box non-perturbatively and analytically. The box given in this study corresponds to a non-perturbative solution for the energy-dependent. Hamiltonian interaction which is often referred to as the Bloch-Horowitz or the Feshbach form. The present approach has a possibility of resolving many of the theoretical and practical difficulties encountered in the calculation of effective-interaction and/or Hamiltonian.
One of the useful and practical methods for solving quantum-mechanical many-body systems is to recast the full problem into a form of the effective interaction acting within a model space of tractable size. Many of the effective-interaction theories in nuclear physics have been formulated by use of the so-called $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{Q}$ box introduced by Kuo et al. It has been one of the central problems how to calculate the $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{Q}$ box accurately and efficiently. We first show that, introducing new basis states, the Hamiltonian is transformed to a block-tridiagonal form in terms of submatrices with small dimension. With this transformed Hamiltonian, we next prove that the $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{Q}$ box can be expressed in two ways: One is in the form of a continued fraction and the other is a simple series expansion up to second order with respect to renormalized vertices and propagators. This procedure ensures derivation of an exact $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{Q}$ box, if the calculation converges as the dimension of the Hilbert space tends to infinity. The $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{Q}$ box given in this study corresponds to a nonperturbative solution for the energy-dependent effective interaction which is often referred to as the Bloch-Horowitz or the Feshbach form. By applying the $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{Z}$-box approach based on the $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{Q}$ box proposed previously, we introduce a graphical method for solving the eigenvalue problem of the Hamiltonian. The present approach has a possibility of resolving many of the difficulties encountered in the effective-interaction theory.
The shell model solve the nuclear many-body problem in a restricted model space and takes into account the restricted nature of the space by using effective interactions and operators. In this paper two different methods for generating the effective interactions are considered. One is based on a partial solution of the Schrodinger equation (Bloch-Horowitz or the Feshbach projection formalism) and other on linear algebra (Lee-Suzuki). The two methods are derived in a parallel manner so that the difference and similarities become apparent. The connections with the renormalization group are also pointed out.
The shell model solves the nuclear many-body problem in a restricted model space and takes into account the restricted nature of the space by using effective interactions and operators. In this paper two different methods for generating the effective interactions are considered. One is based on a partial solution of the Schrödinger equation (Bloch-Horowitz or the Feshbach projection formalism) and other on linear algebra (Lee-Suzuki). The two methods are derived in a parallel manner so that the difference and similarities become apparent. The connections with the renormalization group are also pointed out.
The object of this thesis is to study the definition and the mathematically rigorous derivation of effective models in many body quantum mechanics. In this field, it is often impossible to compte exactly physically relevant quantities - such as the ground state energy of a system - because of the large number of degrees of freedom. Hence, introducing effective models (depending only on the local density of particles for instance) allows us to compute these quantities. Then, it remains to check that the effective model is indeed an approximation of the exact model in a macroscopic limit. Besides, in some models, some physical quantities (energy, scattering amplitude...), when computed naively, appear to be infinite. One has then to renormalize the theory in order to make these divergences (that are not observed experimentally) disappear. After putting the results of this thesis into context in the introduction, we will focus on the renormalization of a bosonic quadratic Hamiltonian on the Fock space in Chapter 2. This (formal) Hamiltonian is the sum of the second quantization of a one-particle operator and the square of a field operator, and it exhibits an ultraviolet divergence (i.e. coming from local singularities). More accurately, we will try to define a self-adjoint operator, and to show that it is the limit (in the resolvent sense) of the Hamiltonian with ultraviolet cutoff when the cutoff tends to infinity. To do so, we will first diagonalize the Hamiltonian in the regular case, using Bogoliubov transformations. Then, we will prove that the diagonalized Hamiltonian (up to a renormalization of the energy and the charge) still defines a self-adjoint, and we will show the convergence of the Hamiltonian with cut-off. In a second time, we will study the semi-classical limit of a Fermi gas, in two different scalings. In Chapter 3, we will focus on the dilute limite (i.e. with an interaction range very small compared to the typical distance between particles) of an inhomogeneous (trapped with a potential V) Fermi gas, with repulsive interactions and in three dimensions. Due to the Pauli exclusion principle, two fermions of same spin can only rarely be close enough to interact. Thus, we will consider a Fermi gas with two spin components. We will then show that the ground state energy of such a system can be approximated by a Thomas-Fermi energy (in which interactions play the role of a perturbation of the interactionless energy) in the large number of particles limit. Eventually, in Chapter 4, we will study the mean-field limit (with frequent but weak interactions) of an inhomogeneous Fermi gas, with attractive interactions and in one or two dimensions this time. Once more, we will show the convergence of the ground state energy toward a Thomas-Fermi energy. Moreover, we will also prove the convergence of the ground states. More accurately, we will show that the Husimi functions of these ground states converge to a convex combination of minimizers of the Vlasov energy.
A new type of ``intermediate'' state, \ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\Psi}${\mathrm{\ifmmode \tilde{}\else \~{}\fi{}}}_{\mathit{J}}$〉, is introduced in the representation of many-body propagators and related resolvent matrix elements. A simple algebraic procedure is presented for constructing the unitary transformation matrix Q that relates the intermediate states and the exact energy eigenstates, \ensuremath{\Vert}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Psi}}}_{\mathit{n}}$〉, of the interacting system. Here the starting point is the matrix X of generalized spectroscopic amplitudes 〈${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Psi}}}_{\mathit{n}}$\ensuremath{\Vert}C${\mathrm{^}}_{\mathit{J}}$\ensuremath{\Vert}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Psi}}}_{0}^{\mathit{N}}$〉, where C${\mathrm{^}}_{\mathit{J}}$ denotes a physical excitation operator and \ensuremath{\Vert}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Psi}}}_{0}^{\mathit{N}}$〉 is the N-electron ground state. A block QR decomposition [G. H. Golub and C. F. von Loan, MatrixB Computations (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1989)] of X according to the equation X=Q F allows one to determine explicit expressions for the subblocks of Q and the intermediate propagator representations constituted by a nondiagonal effective interaction matrix C and an effective spectroscopic matrix f. These effective quantities f and C are formulated entirely in terms of ground-state density-matrix elements and related energy expectation values. The relevance of the intermediate representations as a means for deriving computational schemes is based on the regularity and compactness of the perturbation expansions for the effective matrices f and C. These basic properties also establish that the intermediate representations are closed-form versions of the algebraic-diagrammatic construction approximation schemes derived previously as a reformulation of the original diagrammatic propagator perturbation series. The intermediate representations represent a link between algebraic and diagrammatic approaches in the field of propagator methods and are expected to be useful also in the development of nonperturbative approximations.
A molecule in the presence of a radiation field is described by a non-Hermitian reduced effective Hamiltonian and its eigenvectors, the effective system states. These states form a natural basis for the evaluation of spectroscopic properties; its use requires a generalized formulation of quantum dynamics. The mathematical structure of the vector space defined by those states is investigated; that vector space is found to be a Banach space which reduces to Hilbert space if the energies of the effective system states become real. Time reversal symmetry is found to be an important feature of the overall problem. The generalized time development operator and the Schrödinger equation which defines it are deduced, and the effect of that operator on the effective system states is discussed. The proper generalization of time-dependent perturbation theory in the interaction picture is then derived and its use in applications is discussed in general terms.