New self-consistent many-body perturbation theory: Application to the Hubbard model

Abstract

A new many-body theory perturbationally consistent to all orders of the perturbation is presented and applied to the Hubbard problem as an example. Use is made of the recent Kim and Wilson commutator projection operator to derive the Dyson equation for the one-particle Green's function and an exact set of coupled differential equations for the damping or self-energy term which are solved self-consistently. The Hubbard $I$ result follows in our first approximation and the Esterling-Lange (EL)-type result in the second. Since we keep the hopping finite throughout the calculation, no degeneracy problem is encountered as in EL.