Bold Feynman diagrams and the Luttinger-Ward formalism via Gibbs measures: non-perturbative analysis

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01691-YzbMATH Open1484.82010arXiv1809.02901OpenAlexW3194234706MaRDI QIDQ2049600FDOQ2049600

Authors: Lin Lin, Michael Lindsey 

Publication date: 27 August 2021

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) is widely used in quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. At the heart of MBPT is the Feynman diagrammatic expansion, which is, simply speaking, an elegant way of organizing the combinatorially growing number of terms of a certain Taylor expansion. In particular, the construction of the `bold Feynman diagrammatic expansion' involves the partial resummation to infinite order of possibly divergent series of diagrams. This procedure demands investigation from both the combinatorial (perturbative) and the analytical (non-perturbative) viewpoints. In Part II of this two-part series, we approach the analytical investigation of the bold diagrammatic expansion in the simplified setting of Gibbs measures (known as the Euclidean lattice field theory in the physics literature). Using non-perturbative methods, we rigorously construct the Luttinger-Ward formalism for the first time, and we prove that the bold diagrammatic series can be obtained directly via an asymptotic expansion of the Luttinger-Ward functional, circumventing the partial resummation technique. Moreover we prove that the Dyson equation can be derived as the Euler-Lagrange equation associated with a variational problem involving the Luttinger-Ward functional. We also establish a number of key facts about the Luttinger-Ward functional, such as its transformation rule, its form in the setting of the impurity problem, and its continuous extension to the boundary of the domain of physical Green's functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02901

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zbMATH Keywords

Feynman diagramsGibbs measuresTaylor expansionDyson equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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