Block diagrams and the cancellation of divergences in energy-level perturbation theory

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Publication date 1979
Journal Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume | Issue number 96
Pages (from-to) 487-505
Number of pages 19
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract The effective Hamiltonian for the degenerate energy-eigenvalue problem in adiabatic perturbation theory is cast in a form that permits an expansion in Feynman diagrams. By means of a block representation a resummation of these diagrams is carried out such that in the adiabatic limit no divergencies are encountered. The resummed form of the effective Hamiltonian is used to establish a connexion with the S matrix
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(79)90008-6
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