Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov theory for number-parity-violating fermionic Hamiltonians
Journal Article
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· Journal of Chemical Physics
- Rice University, Houston, TX (United States); Rice University
- Rice University, Houston, TX (United States)
It is usually asserted that physical Hamiltonians for fermions must contain an even number of fermion operators. This is indeed true in electronic structure theory. However, when the Jordan–Wigner (JW) transformation is used to map physical spin Hamiltonians to Hamiltonians of spinless fermions, terms that contain an odd number of fermion operators may appear. The resulting fermionic Hamiltonian thus does not have number parity symmetry and requires wave functions that do not have this symmetry either. In this work, we discuss the extension of standard Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov (HFB) theory to the number-parity-nonconserving case. These ideas had appeared in the literature before but, perhaps for lack of practical applications, had, to the best of our knowledge, never been employed. We here present a useful application for this more general HFB theory based on coherent states of the SO(2M + 1) Lie group, where M is the number of orbitals. Here, we also show how using these unusual mean-field states can provide significant improvements when studying the JW transformation of chemically relevant spin Hamiltonians.
- Research Organization:
- Rice University, Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001474
- OSTI ID:
- 2349222
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 160; ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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