Fock-space

Fock Space.—We have already discussed the Hilbert space 3H H in which we postulate the existence of vectors represented by the states of a system of N particles. Let us now build a hyper-Hilbert space by uniting the Hilbert spaces for every possible population the union of the Hilbert space 3f0 for an empty system, the Hilbert space for a system with one particle, etc., without upper limit. This union is called Fock space ... 

The general vector in Fock space may have components in some or all of the Hilbert subspaces, which means that it is now possible to consider states in which there is a superposition of different populations. Thus, we may represent the Fock space vector at an arbitrary time t by a symbol and expand this state in terms of its components in each subspace ... 

Thus (Xjf t,Ny is the component of with respect to XW> it is the probability density in Fock space that the system have a population N. We recognize it as nothing other than the Schrodinger wave function for N particles—Section 8.10. 

Fock Space Representation of Operators.—Let F be some operator that neither creates nor destroys particles, and is a known function in configuration space for N particles. In symbols such an operator must by definition have the following matrix elements in Fock space ... 

We now define the projection operator in Fock space as an obvious generalization of Eq. (8-164) ... 

For any linear operator 22 defined in Fock space, we can similarly prove, by following an argument like that leading to Eq. (8-189), that the trace in Fock space of WB is the grand-ensemble-average of 22 ... 

We have carried out tins discussion in occupation number representation or coordinate representation each with a definite number N of particles. Similar results follow for the Fock space representation and the properties of grand ensembles. Averages over grand ensembles are also independent of time when the probabilities > are independent of time, whether the observable commutes with H or not. 

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If not otherwise stated the four-component Dirac method was used. The Hartree-Fock (HF) calculations are numerical and contain Breit and QED corrections (self-energy and vacuum polarization). For Au and Rg, the Fock-space coupled cluster (CC) results are taken from Kaldor and co-workers [4, 90], which contains the Breit term in the low-frequency limit. For Cu and Ag, Douglas-Kroll scalar relativistic CCSD(T) results are used from Sadlej and co-workers [6]. Experimental values are from Refs. [91, 92]. 

Landau, A., Kaldor, U. and Eliav, E. (2001) Intermediate Flamiltonian Fock-space coupled-duster method. Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 39, 171—188. 

As a simple model, we confine our attention just to a single mode Ha(t) of the Hamiltonian (23). Note that neither any instantaneous eigenstate of Ha(t) is an exact quantum state nor e-/3ii W is a density operator. To calculate the thermal expectation value of an operator A, one needs either the Heisenberg operator Ah or the density operator pa(t) = UapaUa Now we use the time-dependent creation and annihilation operators (24), invariant operators, to construct the Fock space. 

We applied the Liouville-von Neumann (LvN) method, a canonical method, to nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions. The essential idea of the LvN method is first to solve the LvN equation and then to find exact wave functionals of time-dependent quantum systems. The LvN method has several advantages that it can easily incorporate thermal theory in terms of density operators and that it can also be extended to thermofield dynamics (TFD) by using the time-dependent creation and annihilation operators, invariant operators. Combined with the oscillator representation, the LvN method provides the Fock space of a Hartree-Fock type quadratic part of the Hamiltonian, and further allows to improve wave functionals systematically either by the Green function or perturbation technique. In this sense the LvN method goes beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation. 

The main idea of TFD is the following (Santana, 2004) for a given Hamiltonian which is written in terms of annihilation and creation operators, one applies a doubling procedure which implies extending the Fock space, formally written as Ht = H H. The physical variables are described by the non-tilde operators. In a second step, a Bogolyubov transformation is applied which introduces a rotation of the tilde and non-tilde variables and transforms the non-thermal variables into temperature-dependent form. This formalism can be applied to quite a large class of systems whose Hamiltonian operators can be represented in terms of annihilation and creation operators. 

Equation (4.1) is sometimes referred to as a state vector in Fock space and its use requires that the Hamiltonian be expressed in terms of operators that can act on such vectors. 

In (4.28) and (4.30), we have achieved our aim of expressing the Hamiltonian in the appropriate second quantized form for acting on the state vectors in Fock space. 

The definition of the pair part or, equivalently the no-pair part of Hmat is not unique. The precise meaning of no-pair implicitly depends on the choice of external potential, so that the operator Hm t depends implicitly on the external potential, whereas the sum Hmat Hm t + Hm t is independent of the choice of external potential. Since the no-pair part conserves the number of particles (electrons, positrons and photons) we can look for eigenstates of Hm j in the sector of Fock space with N fermions and no photons or positrons. Following Sucher [18,26,28], the resulting no-pair Hamiltonian in configuration space can be written as... 

Let us dehne the Fock space associated with the lattice L by... 

The relativistic coupled cluster method starts from the four-component solutions of the Drrac-Fock or Dirac-Fock-Breit equations, and correlates them by the coupled-cluster approach. The Fock-space coupled-cluster method yields atomic transition energies in good agreement (usually better than 0.1 eV) with known experimental values. This is demonstrated here by the electron affinities of group-13 atoms. Properties of superheavy atoms which are not known experimentally can be predicted. Here we show that the rare gas eka-radon (element 118) will have a positive electron affinity. One-, two-, and four-components methods are described and applied to several states of CdH and its ions. Methods for calculating properties other than energy are discussed, and the electric field gradients of Cl, Br, and I, required to extract nuclear quadrupoles from experimental data, are calculated. 

By adopting the no-pair approximation, a natural and straightforward extension of the nonrelativistic open-shell CC theory emerges. The multireference valence-universal Fock-space coupled-cluster approach is employed [25], which defines and calculates an effective Hamiltonian in a low-dimensional model (or P) space, with eigenvalues approximating some desirable eigenvalues of the physical Hamiltonian. The effective Hamiltonian has the form [26]... 

The present calculation uses the Fock-space scheme... 

For a discussion of Fock-space coupled cluster see U. Kaldor, Theor Chim. Acta 80, 427 (1991) and references therein. 

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