The coupled-cluster approach to quantum many-body problem in a three-Hilbert-space reinterpretation

DOI10.14311/AP.2014.54.0085arXiv1311.6295MaRDI QIDQ6246744FDOQ6246744

Authors: R. F. Bishop, Miloslav Znojil 

Publication date: 25 November 2013

Abstract: The quantum many-body bound-state problem in its computationally successful coupled cluster method (CCM) representation is reconsidered. In conventional practice one factorizes the ground-state wave functions $|Psiangle=e^S|Phiangle$ which live in the "physical" Hilbert space ${calH}^{(P)}$ using an elementary ansatz for $|Phiangle$ plus a formal expansion of $S$ in an operator basis of multi-configurational creation operators. In our paper a reinterpretation of the method is proposed. Using parallels between the CCM and the so called quasi-Hermitian, alias three-Hilbert-space (THS), quantum mechanics, the CCM transition from the known microscopic Hamiltonian (denoted by usual symbol $H$), which is self-adjoint in ${calH}^{(P)}$, to its effective lower-case isospectral avatar $hath=e^{-S}H{e}^S$, is assigned a THS interpretation. In the opposite direction, a THS-prescribed, non-CCM, innovative reinstallation of Hermiticity is shown to be possible for the CCM effective Hamiltonian $hath$, which only appears manifestly non-Hermitian in its own ("friendly") Hilbert space ${calH}^{(F)}$. This goal is achieved via an ad hoc amendment of the inner product in ${calH}^{(F)}$, thereby yielding the third ("standard") Hilbert space ${calH}^{(S)}$. Due to the resulting exact unitary equivalence between the first and third spaces, ${calH}^{(P)}sim{calH}^{(S)}$, the indistinguishability of predictions calculated in these alternative physical frameworks is guaranteed.

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