Path Integral Variational Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems

Details Path Integral Variational Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems Path Integral Variational Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems

1996-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9605009v1

Phys.Rev.C54:1622-1635,1996

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

35 RevTeX pages, 7 separated ps figures available on request

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.54.1622

We introduce a new approach to highly correlated systems which generalizes the Fermi Hypernetted Chain and Correlated Basis Function techniques. While the latter approaches can only be applied to systems for which a nonrelativistic wave function can be defined, the new approach is based on the variation of a trial hamiltonian within a path integral framework and thus can also be applied to relativistic and field theoretical problems. We derive a diagrammatic scheme for the new approach and show how a particular choice of the trial hamiltonian corresponds exactly to the use of a Jastrow correlated ansatz for the wave function in the Fermi Hypernetted Chain approach. We show how our new approach can be used to find upper bounds to ground state energies in systems which the FHNC cannot handle, including those described by an energy-dependent effective hamiltonian. We demonstrate our approach by applying it to a quantum field theoretical system of interacting pions and nucleons.

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