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We consider quantum nonlinear many-body systems with dissipation described within the Caldeira-Leggett model, i.e., by a nonlocal action in the path integral for the density matrix. Approximate classical-like formulas for thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Cuccoli , A. Fubini , V. Tognetti , R. Vaia

The electromagnetic Green's function is a crucial ingredient for the theoretical study of modern photonic quantum devices, but is often difficult or even impossible to calculate directly. We present a numerically efficient framework for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Robert Meiners Fuchs , Juanjuan Ren , Stephen Hughes , Marten Richter

We show that the recently-introduced formalism by Neuhauser et al. for the calculation of the quasi-particle energies of electronic systems within the framework of the GW approximation of the self-energy operator, named the `stochastic GW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Behnam Farid

The general problem of representing the Greens function $G(k,z)$ in terms of self energy, in field theories lacking Wick's theorem, is considered. A simple construction shows that a Dyson like representation with a self energy $\Sigma(k,z)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-12 B. Sriram Shastry

Many-body Green's functions encode all the properties and excitations of interacting electrons. While these are challenging to be evaluated accurately on a classical computer, recent efforts have been directed towards finding quantum…

The partition function and free energy of a quantum many-body system determine its physical properties in thermal equilibrium. Here we study the computational complexity of approximating these quantities for $n$-qubit local Hamiltonians.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Sergey Bravyi , Anirban Chowdhury , David Gosset , Pawel Wocjan

Although the GW approximation is recognized as one of the most accurate theories for predicting materials excited states properties, scaling up conventional GW calculations for large systems remains a major challenge. We present a powerful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Weiwei Gao , Weiyi Xia , Xiang Gao , Peihong Zhang

The analytic continuation of the GW self-energy from the imaginary to the real energy axis is a central difficulty for approaches exploiting the favourable properties of response functions at imaginary frequencies. Within a scheme merging…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-16 Ivan Duchemin , Xavier Blase

Computation of the Green's function is crucial to study the properties of quantum many-body systems such as strongly correlated systems. Although the high-precision calculation of the Green's function is a notoriously challenging task on…

We discuss the analytic and diagrammatic structure of ionization potential (IP) and electron affinity (EA) equation-of-motion coupled-cluster (EOM-CC) theory, in order to put it on equal footing with the prevalent $GW$ approximation. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Malte F. Lange , Timothy C. Berkelbach

This introduction to Green's functions is based on their role as kernels of differential equations. The procedures to construct solutions to a differential equation with an external source or with an inhomogeneity term are put together to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 Ursula Schröter

Many-body quantum systems in nonequilibrium remain one of the frontiers of many-body physics. While there has been significant advances in describing the short-time evolution of these systems using a variety of different numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Herbert F. Fotso , Eric Dohner , Alexander Kemper , James K. Freericks

We provide the formal extension of Hedin's GW equations for single-particle Green's functions with electron-electron interaction onto the Keldysh time-loop contour. We show an application of our formalism to the plasmon model of a core…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-23 H. Ness , L. K. Dash , M. Stankovski , R. W. Godby

We formulate the theory of an extremely correlated electron liquid, generalizing the standard Fermi liquid. This quantum liquid has specific signatures in various physical properties, such as the Fermi surface volume and the narrowing of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-22 B Sriram Shastry

The experimental valence band photoemission spectrum of semiconductors exhibits multiple satellites that cannot be described by the GW approximation for the self-energy in the framework of many-body perturbation theory. Taking silicon as a…

A quantum-mechanical calculation of the single-particle level (s.p.l.) density $g(\epsilon)$ is carried on by using the connection with the single-particle Green's function. The relation between the imaginary part of Green's function and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Stetcu

We present a general procedure for obtaining progressively more accurate functional expressions for the electron self-energy by iterative solution of Hedin's coupled equations. The iterative process starting from Hartree theory, which gives…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Arno Schindlmayr , R. W. Godby

The self-consistent theory of the correlation effects in Highly Correlated Systems(HCS) is presented. The novel Irreducible Green's Functions(IGF) method is discused in detail for the Hubbard model and random Hubbard model. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-03 A. L. Kuzemsky

Over time, many different theories and approaches have been developed to tackle the many-body problem in quantum chemistry, condensed-matter physics, and nuclear physics. Here we use the helium atom, a real system rather than a model, and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Jing Li , N. D. Drummond , Peter Schuck , Valerio Olevano

We consider the cumulant expansion of the PAM employing the hybridization as perturbation (Phys. Rev. B 50, 17933 (1994)), and we obtain formally exact one-electron Green's functions (GF). These GF contain effective cumulants that are as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-13 M. E. Foglio , T. Lobo , M. S. Figueira