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Three-Body Forces Produced by a Similarity Renormalization Group Transformation in a Simple Model

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A simple class of unitary renormalization group transformations that force hamiltonians towards a band-diagonal form produce few-body interactions in which low- and high-energy states are decoupled, which can greatly simplify many-body calculations. One such transformation has been applied to phenomenological and effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions with success, but further progress requires consistent treatment of at least the three-nucleon interaction. In this paper we demonstrate in an extremely simple model how these renormalization group transformations consistently evolve two- and three-body interactions towards band-diagonal form, and introduce a diagrammatic approach that generalizes to the realistic nuclear problem.

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@article{arxiv.0708.1602,
  title  = {Three-Body Forces Produced by a Similarity Renormalization Group Transformation in a Simple Model},
  author = {S. K. Bogner and R. J. Furnstahl and R. J. Perry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1602},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

25 pages, 18 figures, minor typos corrected and references updated