While Hartree–Fock theory is well established as a fundamental approximation for interacting fermions, it has been unclear how to describe corrections to it due to many-body correlations. In this paper we start from the Hartree–Fock state given by plane waves and introduce collective particle–hole pair excitations. These pairs can be approximately described by a bosonic quadratic Hamiltonian. We use Bogoliubov theory to construct a trial state yielding a rigorous Gell-Mann–Brueckner–type upper bound to the ground state energy. Our result justifies the random-phase approximation in the mean-field scaling regime, for repulsive, regular interaction potentials.

Optimal Upper Bound for the Correlation Energy of a Fermi Gas in the Mean-Field Regime / Benedikter, N.; Nam, P. T.; Porta, M.; Schlein, B.; Seiringer, R.. - In: COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0010-3616. - 374:(2020), pp. 2097-2150. [10.1007/s00220-019-03505-5]

Optimal Upper Bound for the Correlation Energy of a Fermi Gas in the Mean-Field Regime

Porta, M.;
2020-01-01

Abstract

While Hartree–Fock theory is well established as a fundamental approximation for interacting fermions, it has been unclear how to describe corrections to it due to many-body correlations. In this paper we start from the Hartree–Fock state given by plane waves and introduce collective particle–hole pair excitations. These pairs can be approximately described by a bosonic quadratic Hamiltonian. We use Bogoliubov theory to construct a trial state yielding a rigorous Gell-Mann–Brueckner–type upper bound to the ground state energy. Our result justifies the random-phase approximation in the mean-field scaling regime, for repulsive, regular interaction potentials.
2020
374
2097
2150
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-019-03505-5
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01902
Benedikter, N.; Nam, P. T.; Porta, M.; Schlein, B.; Seiringer, R.
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