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TT 65: Focused Session: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory 7 (jointly with HL and O)
TT 65.1: Talk
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 16:00–16:15, H36
Determination of the one-body Green’s function: freedom and constraints — Giovanna Lani1,4, •Pina Romaniello2,4, and Lucia Reining3,4 — 1Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany — 2Laboratoire de Physique Théorique-IRSAMC, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France — 3Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, CEA-DSM, Palaiseau, France — 4European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF)
The one-particle Green’s function G plays a key role in many-body physics due to the wealth of physical information that it contains. In this work we go beyond the standard methods to calculate G, which are plagued by various shortcomings, and we use an approximate set of functional differential equations relating the one-particle Green’s function to its functional derivative with respect to an external perturbing potential [1]. We show that this set of equations has, in principle, multiple solutions, but that only one is well behaved - this is the physical solution. We give the formally exact family of solutions, which depends on an auxiliary quantity q, for which we find stringent exact constraints. Our findings suggest that once q is known, the physical solution is uniquely fixed by the vanishing Coulomb interaction limit [2-3].
[1] L. P. Kadanoff and G. Baym, Quantum Statistical Mechanics (W.A. Benjamin Inc., New York, 1964)
[2] G. Lani, P. Romaniello, and L. Reining, New Journal of Physics, 14, 013056 (2012)
[3] G. Lani, P. Romaniello, and L. Reining, in preparation