Massimo Ostilli and Carlo Presilla 2004 New J. Phys. 6 107 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/107
Massimo Ostilli1,2 and Carlo Presilla1,2,3
Show affiliationsOn the grounds of a Feynman–Kac-type formula for Hamiltonian lattice systems, we derive analytical expressions for the matrix elements of the evolution operator. These expressions are valid at long times when a central limit theorem applies. As a remarkable result, we find that the ground-state energy as well as all the correlation functions in the ground state are determined semi-analytically by solving a simple scalar equation. Furthermore, explicit solutions of this equation are obtained in the noninteracting case.
Issue 1 (August 2004)
Received 16 April 2004
Published 12 August 2004
Massimo Ostilli and Carlo Presilla 2004 New J. Phys. 6 107
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