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Goldstone modes in the random phase approximation

K. Neergård

Published Jun 7, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

I show that the kernel of the random phase approximation (RPA) matrix based on a stable Hartree, Hartree-Fock, Hartree-Bogolyubov or Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov mean field solution is decomposed into a subspace with a basis whose vectors are associated, in the equivalent formalism of a classical Hamiltonian linear in canonic coordinates, with conjugate momenta of cyclic coordinates (Goldstone modes) and a subspace with a basis whose vectors are associated with pairs of conjugate canonic coordinates that do not enter the Hamiltonian at all. In a subspace complementary to the one spanned by all these coordinates including the conjugate coordinates of the Goldstone momenta, the RPA matrix behaves as in the case of a zerodimensional kernel. This result was derived very recently by Nakada as a corollary to a general analysis of RPA matrices based on both stable and unstable mean field solutions. The present proof does not rest on Nakada's general results.

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