Cumulants, Partitioning, and Projections
Cumulants, Partitioning, and Projections
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累积量、划分和投影
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1995
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P. Fulde
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P. Fulde
In Chap. 4 we discussed configuration-interaction and perturbational methods often used to describe electron correlations in molecules drawing attention to the “size-consistency problem”. The energy is an extensive quantity, i.e., it doubles its value when the size of the system doubles. This feature should be preserved by any approximation when determining the energy. This is not the case when a configuration-interaction expansion like (4.1.1) is terminated after a fixed number of electron-hole excitations: only when excitations out of all occupied orbitals are included is a CI ansatz size consistent. As pointed out in Chap. 4, the Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbation theory does not suffer from the size-consistency problem while the Brillouin-Wigner one does. Even within the Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbation theory we obtain different contributions to the energy, which are not proportional to the volume in case of large systems. However, we have seen that they mutually cancel as evidenced, for example, in (4.2.14) with a size extensive final result. This cancellation becomes particularly apparent in diagrammatic approaches to the ground-state energy common in field-theoretical methods [5.1]. Diagrams represent different terms of a perturbation expansion in a pictorial way. The disconnected diagrams yield contributions not proportional to the volume; by working with linked or connected diagrams only, one ensures that all approximations preserve size consistency.