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Physical Review

Criteria for the Best Bogoliubov Quasiparticle

Donald H. Kobe

Published Nov 1, 1965• 14 citations
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Abstract

The principle of compensation of dangerous diagrams has previously been the only general criterion for determining the coefficients in the Bogoliubov canonical transformation to quasiparticles. In this paper it is shown that the criterion of maximum overlap of the true ground state with the BCS ground state gives the same condition for determining the coefficients. The criterion of diagonalizing the quadratic part of the reaction operator, which is a generalization of the Brillouin-Brueckner condition, is also equivalent to the above criteria. Finally these criteria are evaluated from the standpoint of "least labor for the most accuracy."

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10.1103/physrev.140.a825

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The principle of compensation of dangerous diagrams (PCDD) postulated by Bogoliubov to determine the coefficients in the canonical transformation to quasi-particles in superconducting systems is derived from four different criteria (1) the expected number of quasi-particles in the true ground state is a minimum, (2) the one-particle density matrix and the two-particle amplitude determined from the BCS ground state are equated to the true ones, (3) the expectation value of an arbitrary operator is simplified by diagonalizing its quadratic part, and (4) the starting point for the dressing of the quasi-particle is chosen in the most convenient way. The condition obtained for the PCDD is then expressed in terms of quasi-particle Green's functions. The ladder diagrams are eliminated by examining an integral equation for the Green's function describing the creation of two quasi-particles from the vacuum. Finally, the condition obtained here for the PCDD is compared with the condition obtained previously.
The principle of compensation of dangerous diagrams (PCDD) is derived at finite temperature for boson systems by minimizing the average number of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in the system. The conditions obtained state that (a) the amplitude for the creation (or annihilation) of a single quasiparticle is zero and (b) the amplitude for the creation (or annihilation) of a pair of quasiparticles is zero. These conditions are expanded in finite-temperature perturbation theory, using both the density matrix and Green's function methods. In first order the resulting equations are the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations for a homogeneous boson system at finite temperature which can also be obtained from a free energy variational principle.
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