The random phase approximation or sophisticated particle-hole theory

M. Tohyama

The role of the small-norm amplitudes in extended random-phase approximation (RPA) theories such as the particle-particle and hole-hole components of one-body amplitudes and the twobody amplitudes other than two-particle/two-hole components are investigated for the onedimensional Hubbard model using an extended RPA derived from the time-dependent density matrix theory.It is found that these amplitudes cannot be neglected in strongly interacting regions where the effects of ground-state correlations are significant.............

Daisuke Shindo, Kazuo Takayanagi

We propose an extended Lipkin model that can describe decay processes of particle-hole states and is still solvable. We examine several RPA-type theories using the model. We show explicitly the roles played by the self-energies of particle-hole propagators, and clarify how the extended RPA theory describes collective states better than other RPA-type theories.

J. D. Fan, Y. M. Malozovsky

João da Providência

Timothy C. Berkelbach

The ground-state correlation energy calculated in the random-phase approximation (RPA) is known to be identical to that calculated using a subset of terms appearing in coupled-cluster theory with double excitations (CCD). In particular, for particle-hole (ph) RPA this equivalence requires keeping only those terms that generate time-independent ring diagrams, and for particle-particle (pp) RPA it requires keeping only those terms that generate ladder diagrams. Here I show that these identities extend to excitation energies, for which those calculated in each RPA are identical to those calculated using approximations to equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory with double excitations (EOM-CCD). The equivalence requires three approximations to EOM-CCD: first, the ground-state CCD amplitudes are obtained from the ring-CCD or ladder-CCD equations (the same as for the correlation energy); second, the EOM eigenvalue problem is truncated to the minimal subspace, which is one particle + one hole for ph-RPA and two particles or two holes for pp-RPA; third, the similarity transformation of the Fock operator must be neglected, as it corresponds to a Brueckner-like dressing of the single-particle propagator, which is not present in the conventional RPA.