Approximations for many-body Green's functions: insights from the fundamental equations

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/14/1/013056zbMATH Open1448.81499arXiv1103.1630OpenAlexW3103421555MaRDI QIDQ5137604FDOQ5137604

Authors: Giovanna Lani, Pina Romaniello, Lucia Reining 

Publication date: 2 December 2020

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Several widely used methods for the calculation of band structures and photo emission spectra, such as the GW approximation, rely on Many-Body Perturbation Theory. They can be obtained by iterating a set of functional differential equations relating the one-particle Green's function to its functional derivative with respect to an external perturbing potential. In the present work we apply a linear response expansion in order to obtain insights in various approximations for Green's functions calculations. The expansion leads to an effective screening, while keeping the effects of the interaction to all orders. In order to study various aspects of the resulting equations we discretize them, and retain only one point in space, spin, and time for all variables. Within this one-point model we obtain an explicit solution for the Green's function, which allows us to explore the structure of the general family of solutions, and to determine the specific solution that corresponds to the physical one. Moreover we analyze the performances of established approaches like $GW$ over the whole range of interaction strength, and we explore alternative approximations. Finally we link certain approximations for the exact solution to the corresponding manipulations for the differential equation which produce them. This link is crucial in view of a generalization of our findings to the real (multidimensional functional) case where only the differential equation is known.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1630

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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