Many body physics seminars (2 part)-2012

1. Calculate the energy shift and effective mass of hole created in state
|ki, Ek < EF in Fermi see by using Hartree-Foch approximation. By
performing summation over all hole renormalized energies up to kF calculate ground state energy shift of Fermi see. Corresponding Feynman
diagrams are shown in Fig.1.
n0
k

k-q

Figure 1: Diagrams in H-F aproximation.

2. Calculate second order Feynman diagram for electron-electron interaction shown in Fig.2. Calculate or estimate the contribution to electron
or hole energy shift in this process and compare it with energy shift in
first order (H-F) processes. Explain which kind of consequences this
kind of processes have to electron or hole spectral function.
1
m

m-q
1

k-q

Figure 2: Second order, electron-hole creation diagram.

3. Electron of incident energy Ek < 0 , where 0 is frequency of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons, enters in polar crystal, as is shown
by Feynman diagram in Fig.3. Calculate the renormalized energy of
incident electron
Ek = Ek + k (Ek )
because of its interaction with LO phonons. Electron-phonon interaction is given by
X
+
Hint =
Mq c+
k+q ck [aq + aq ]
k,q

where

M
Mq =
q V

and
M 2 = 2e2h
0 (

1
1
).
0

k ) interPlot the electron dispersion relation before (Ek ) and after (E

action.
4. Electron of incident energy Ek > 0 where 0 is frequency of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons enters in polar crystal. Calculate the electron
Greens and spectral function
1
A(k, ) = G(k, )

before and after interaction with LO phonons.

q

k-q

Figure 3: First order Feynman diagram for interaction of an incident electron

with LO phonons in polar crystal.

5. Calculate free response function 0 (Q, ) shown by feynman diagram

in Fig.4 for two dimensional electron gas in which one electron energy
dispersion is
a)EK = K,
b)EK =

2K 2
h
2m

where Q and K are twodimensional wave vector. In Random Phase Approximation (RPA) the Fourier transform of screened Coulomb propagator can be writen as
W (Q, ) =

vQ
1 vQ 0 (Q, )

where vQ = 2
is 2D Fourier transform of bare Coulomb interaction.
Q
By using RPA calculate the plasmon dispersion relations for a) and b).
Compare these dispersion relations in long wavelength (Q 0) limit.

K
vQ

vQ

K-Q

Figure 4: Free response function 0 (Q, ) shown as a Feynman diagram for

electron-hole pair cration.