In this paper we discuss some general properties of the one-particle Green's function, for nonuniform many-fermion systems and the associated single-particle interpretation of physical properties of such systems. We consider, in particular, the ground-state energy, the density of particles in the ground state, and the single-particle excitation spectrum. The investigation is restricted to the case of a static external field and a system at zero temperature. Various general approximation methods are studied starting from one in which the self-energy operator is replaced by an Hermitian and energy-independent operator.
Some of the difficulties encountered in the approximation of Green's functions are reviewed with particular emphasis on the self-consistent polarization propagator. Some new basic theorems are presented, involving a general procedure, which lead to both a derivation and alternate prescriptions for the computations. As demonstrated by Linderberg and Öhrn the ground state is an AGP (antisymmetrized geminal power). An energy optimized AGP ( E AGP ) in a Brueckner orbital representation can be used to generate a manifold of excited states| K ⟩ = O K + |AGP⟩, O K |AGP⟩ = 0 with the excitation operators, O + K , and killers, O K , being combinations of particle-hole and hole-particle operators. The SCPP can be expressed then as ⟨⟨ X, Y ⟩⟩ E = - ⟨AGP| XT 0 (- E + E AGP ) Y + YT 0 ( E + E AGP ) X |AGP⟩ in terms of the resolvent T 0 ( ) = P ( - PHP ) -1 with P spanned by the states| K ⟩⟨ K |, in the sense of Löwdin. Our results establish a natural relationship between hermiticity, completeness, non-redundance of operator manifolds with stationarity and killer conditions.
The ground-state energy and low-energy excitations of single-particle character of an infinite medium of fermions are discussed with the aid of time-dependent Green's functions, which are convenient generalizations of the exact particle correlation functions in the ground state of
N particles. The power series development for the one- and two-particle functions, under the restriction to two-body forces, is derived and described by means of Feynman diagrams. The derivation of the linked-cluster expansion for the energy then follows immediately. The equivalence to previous versions is established. The one-particle function is examined in particular detail, and it is shown that the poles of its space-time Fourier transform studied as a function of the energy variable, for fixed momentum, determined the (
N+1)-particle and ($N\ensuremath{-}1$)-particle excited states which have single-particle character. For a reasonable assumption about the full spectrum of excited states, it is found that for the interacting system, single-particle excitations with a real energy occur only at the Fermi momentum. It is pointed out that the corresponding energy, termed the perturbed Fermi energy, equals the binding energy per particle in the ground state of
N particles for a saturating system at equilibrium density.It is shown, finally, that the entire structure of the theory may be carried over to the case of finite temperature, requiring only a redefinition of the Green's functions. The analogy is constructed from a discussion of the internal energy.
Abstract N‐representability conditions for a two‐particle density operator implied by positive‐semidefiniteness of the projection operator PN+1(ϕ1 Λ ΨN) are derived and discussed. The operator PN+1(ϕ1 Λ ΨN) projects onto an (N + 1)‐particle antisymmetric function ϕ1 Λ ΨN, the Grassmann product of a one‐particle factor ϕ1 and an N‐particle factor ΨN. The polar subcone 𝒫2N(g, q) to the set of N‐representable two‐particle density operators 𝒫2N which corresponds to these conditions is found. It is shown that its extreme rays belong to two orbits for the action of the unitary group of transformations in one‐particle Hilbert space. The facial structure of the convex set 𝒫2N exposed by elements of 𝒫2N(g, q) is analyzed. An example of the operator that changes the structure of its bottom eigenspace when the number of fermions N surpasses a certain value is noted. A new approach to the diagonal conditions for N‐representability is found. It consists of the decomposition of the N‐particle antisymmetric identity operator onto the mutually orthogonal projection operators.
The problem of the microscopic description of excited states of the even-even open-shell atomic nuclei is considered. A model is formulated which allows one to go beyond the quasiparticle random phase approximation. The physical content of the model is determined by the quasiparticle time blocking approximation (QTBA) which enables one to include contributions of the two-quasiparticle and the two-phonon configurations, while excluding (blocking) more complicated intermediate states. In addition, the QTBA ensures consistent treatment of ground state correlations in the Fermi systems with pairing. The model is based on the generalized Green function formalism (GGFF) in which the normal and the anomalous Green functions are treated in a unified way in terms of the components of generalized Green functions in a space that is double the size of the usual single-particle space. Modification of the GGFF is considered in the case when the many-body nuclear Hamiltonian contains two-, three-, and other many-particle effective forces.