Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2003-12-19
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
27 pages, conference contribution
Scientific paper
The methods of quantum chemistry and solid state theory to solve the many-body problem are reviewed. We start with the definitions of reduced density matrices, their properties (contraction sum rules, spectral resolutions, cumulant expansion, $N$-representability), and their determining equations (contracted Schr\"odinger equations) and we summarize recent extensions and generalizations of the traditional quantum chemical methods, of the density functional theory, and of the quasi-particle theory: from finite to extended systems (incremental method), from density to density matrix (density matrix functional theory), from weak to strong correlation (dynamical mean field theory), from homogeneous (Kimball-Overhauser approach) to inhomogeneous and finite systems. Measures of the correlation strength are discussed. The cumulant two-body reduced density matrix proves to be a key quantity. Its spectral resolution contains geminals, being possibly the solutions of an approximate effective two-body equation, and the idea is sketched of how its contraction sum rule can be used for a variational treatment.
Tasnádi Ferenc
Ziesche Paul
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