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Nonequilibrium Green's function approach to the pair distribution function of quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-09-19 v1

Abstract

The pair distribution function (PDF) is a key quantity for the analysis of correlation effects of a quantum system both in equilibrium and far from equilibrium. We derive an expression for the PDF in terms of the single-particle Green's functions---the solutions of the Keldysh/Kadanoff-Baym equations in the two-time plane---for a one- or two-component system. The result includes initial correlations and generalizes previous density matrix expressions from single-time quantum kinetic theory. Explicit expressions for the PDF are obtained in second Born approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1211.0209,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium Green's function approach to the pair distribution function of quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium},
  author = {M. Bonitz and S. Hermanns and K. Kobusch and K. Balzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0209},
  year   = {2013}
}