FREE ENERGY DENSITY FOR MEAN FIELD PERTURBATION OF STATES OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL SPIN CHAIN

Motivated by recent developments on large deviations in states of the spin chain, we reconsider the work of Petz, Raggio and Verbeure in 1989 on the variational expression of free energy density in the presence of a mean field type perturbation. We extend their results from the product state case to the Gibbs state case in the setting of translation-invariant interactions of finite range. In the special case of a locally faithful quantum Markov state, we clarify the relation between two different kinds of free energy densities (or pressure functions).

VARIATIONAL TOTAL ENERGIES FROM Φ- AND Ψ- DERIVABLE THEORIES

Starting from many-body perturbation theory we have constructed a new variational expression for the total energy of many-electron systems. This expression is a functional of two independent variables, the one-electron Green function and the screened Coulomb interaction. The new functional as well as a much older variational expression by Luttinger and Ward (LW) are tested on the interacting electron gas. Both functionals yield extraordinary accurate total energies although the new functional requires a much cruder input and is therefore easier to apply to more realistic systems.