Self-consistent Hartree-Fock approach to Phase Transitions

Hartree-Fock approach to Phase Transitions

Hartree-Fock in second quantized form

The interaction energy operator for a two body system with pairwise interactions is given by

$\nu ={\frac {1}{2}}\sum _{\sigma \sigma ^{\prime }}\int d^{3}rd^{3}r^{\prime }v({\vec {r}}-{\vec {r}}^{\prime })\psi _{\sigma }^{\dagger }({\vec {r}})\psi _{\sigma ^{\prime }}^{\dagger }({\vec {r}}^{\prime })\psi _{\sigma ^{\prime }}({\vec {r}}^{\prime })\psi _{\sigma }({\vec {r}})$

In the above operator, it is important to note the order of the operators. Including the kinetic energy term we can write the Hamiltonian for particles of mass m with pairwise interactions in second quantized formalism as

$H=\sum _{\sigma \sigma ^{\prime }}\int d^{3}r{\frac {1}{2m}}\nabla \psi _{\sigma }^{\dagger }({\vec {r}})\cdot \nabla \psi _{\sigma }({\vec {r}})+{\frac {1}{2}}\sum _{\sigma \sigma ^{\prime }}\int d^{3}rd^{3}r^{\prime }v({\vec {r}}-{\vec {r}}^{\prime })\psi _{\sigma }^{\dagger }({\vec {r}})\psi _{\sigma ^{\prime }}^{\dagger }({\vec {r}}^{\prime })\psi _{\sigma ^{\prime }}({\vec {r}}^{\prime })\psi _{\sigma }({\vec {r}})$