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Physics 555 Fall 2007 Mean field theory and Hartree-Fock theory Perhaps the first mean-field theory was the alteration of the Curie law χ ∝ 1 / T for a paramagnet, to the Curie-Weiss law χ ∝ 1 / (T − Tc ) for a ferromagnet at T above the Curie temperature Tc. The derivation says that roughly speaking, a microscopic spin sees, not the separate spins on its neighbors, but the number of neighbors times the average spin. This becomes more accurate, the more neighbors there are, and therefore less accurate the fewer, or the lower the spatial dimensionality. There is a corresponding microscopic mean field theory. The simplest version is the Ising case where we pretend spins only orient along z. The notion σi denotes the z-component of the ith spin. The Ising Hamiltonian is J n.n. J n. n. H ISING = − ∑ σ iσ j = ∑ σ i σ j + σ i σ j − σ i σ j + (σ i − σ i ) σ j − σ j (1) 2 i≠ j 2 i≠ j The mean-field approximation consists of neglecting the last term, which is quadratic in fluctuations around mean values σ j = σ . Then, neglecting a constant term, we have [ ( )] H ISING , MF = −∑i σ i Beff , where the effective magnetic field is Beff = zJ σ , and z is the number of neighbors. This is the “Weiss molecular field,” and generates the Curie-Weiss law, by solving selfconsistently for σ . It also gives a theory for the low-T broken-symmetry ferromagnetic phase. Now consider the Hamiltonian for a system of electrons. It can be written as the sum of a single-particle part and the Coulomb term, namely 1 (2) Hˆ 1 + Hˆ int = ∑ m hˆ1 n cm+ cn + m′m VˆCoulomb n′n cm+ ′cm+ cn cn′ , ∑ 2 m , n , m′ , n ′ n,m r r r where hˆ = p 2 / 2m + V (r ) , and Vˆ = e 2 / r − r ′ . A mean-field version of this Hamiltonian is 1 Coulomb constructed analogously to the mean-field version of the Ising Hamiltonian, and is called the Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian, 1 Hˆ HF = ∑ m hˆ1 n cm+ cn + m′m VˆCoulomb n′n cm+ ′cm+ cn cn′ pairwise − average ∑ 2 m , n , m ′ , n′ n,m The pairwise average is more complicated here than the partial spin average in the mean-field version of the Ising model. There are two different ways that the average of a pair of the coperators can be non-zero, with opposite relative signs because of the anti-commuting property of the operators, cm+ ′ cm+ cn cn′ pairwise −average = Dˆ + Eˆ , [ [ ] ] Dˆ = cm+ ′cn′ cm+ cn + cm+ ′cn′ cm+ cn − cm+ ′ cn′ cm+ cn . Eˆ = − cm+ ′cn cm+ cn ' − cm+ ′ cn cm+ cn′ + cm+ ′cn cm+ cn′ Here D̂ contains the “direct” terms, and Ê contains the “exchange” terms. The third part of both D̂ and Ê is an average, not an operator, and doesn’t affect dynamics, just total energy. It can be dropped for now. The first two terms of both D̂ and Ê are identical, after re-labeling indices, and are single Slater using ca+ cb = ca+ ca δ ab (which is true when the states used in the average determinants.) Then the Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian can be written ⎧ ⎫ Hˆ HF = ∑ ⎨ m hˆ1 n + ∑ cs+ cs sm VˆCoulomb sn − sm VˆCoulomb ns ⎬cm+ cn . (3) m,n ⎩ s ⎭ This equation, if diagonalized self-consistently, gives Hartree-Fock eigenvalues and orbitals. [ ]