Stochastic Hamiltonians for correlated electron models

Abstract

Microscopically conserving reduced models of many-body systems have a long, highly successful history. Established theories of this type are the random-phase approximation for Coulomb fluids and the particle-particle ladder model for nuclear matter. There are also more physically comprehensive approximations such as the induced-interaction and parquet theories. Notwithstanding their explanatory power, some theories have lacked an explicit Hamiltonian from which all significant system properties, static and dynamic, emerge canonically. This absence can complicate evaluation of the conserving sum rules, essential consistency checks on the validity of any model. In a series of papers Kraichnan introduced a stochastic embedding procedure to generate explicit Hamiltonians for common approximations for the full many-body problem. Existence of a Hamiltonian greatly eases the task of securing fundamental identities in such models. I revisit Kraichnan's method to apply it to correlation theories for which such a canonical framework has not been available. I exhibit Hamiltonians for more elaborate correlated models incorporating both long-range screening and short-range scattering phenomena. These are relevant to the study of strongly interacting electrons and condensed quantum systems broadly.