ON THE DECOUPLING PROCEDURE IN THE GREEN FUNCTION METHOD

Jan Linderberg, Yngve Öhrn

Lew Gehlhoff

We consider a version of the Emery model with large spin degeneracy N and use the X-operator formulation and the equation-of-motion method to determine the single-particle Green’s functions. We propose a modified Hubbard decoupling technique for the higher-order Green’s functions appearing in this equation of motion. By applying it to the above model in the limit N→∞ we obtain the exact results.

T.T.S. Kuo, Yiharn Tzeng

We present an elementary and fairly detailed review of several Green’s function methods for treating nuclear and other many-body systems. We first treat the single-particle Green’s function, by way of which some details concerning linked diagram expansion, rules for evaluating Green’s function diagrams and solution of the Dyson’s integral equation for Green’s function are exhibited. The particle-particle hole-hole (pphh) Green’s function is then considered, and a specific time-blocking technique is discussed. This technique enables us to have a one-frequency Dyson’s equation for the pphh and similarly for other Green’s functions, thus considerably facilitating their calculation. A third type of Green’s function considered is the particle-hole Green’s function. RPA and high order RPA are treated, along with examples for setting up particle-hole RPA equations. A general method for deriving a model-space Dyson’s equation for Green’s functions is discussed. We also discuss a method for determining the normalization of Green’s function transition amplitudes based on its vertex function. Some applications of Green’s function methods to nuclear structure and recent deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering are addressed.

Jaime Merino, A. Levy Yeyati

Eleftherios N. Economou

A. Kowalska, P.A.L. Mogensen