International Journal of Modern Physics B
PARQUET EQUATIONS FOR NUMERICAL SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY
N. E. Bickers
Abstract
In recent years increases in computational power have provided new motivation for the study of self-consistent-field theories for interacting electrons. In this set of notes, the so-called parquet equations for electron systems are derived pedagogically. The principal advantages of the parquet approach are outlined, and its relationship to simpler self-consistent-field methods, including the Baym-Kadanoff technique, is discussed in detail.