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are considered, the replacement of
H 1 in the density matrix
only gives rise to errors of higher-order in 1 /J . Because
H
by
H 0 +
H 1 is
quadratic in the Bose operators, this replacement results in a decoupling
of the
H 0 +
H 2 -terms (according to Wick's theorem ) which is equivalent to the
RPA decoupling utilized previously. Hence, when considering thermal
averages, we have to leading order in 1 /J , for instance,
a k a k a q + k k a k a k a q + k k
+ a k a k a q + k k
+ a q + k k a k a k
= δ k ,− q a +
a k a k
a k a k
q
a k a k
+ δ k , q a q
+ δ k , k a q
,
(5 . 2 . 29)
where the last line follows from the diagonality of
H 1 in reciprocal
space. We note that it is convenient here that the single-ion operators are
expressed as products of Bose operators which are well-ordered. When
this decoupling is introduced in (5.2.28), it reduces to
H 0 +
]= A q ( T ) a q + B q ( T ) a +
[ a q ,
H
q ,
(5 . 2 . 30)
where the effective, renormalized parameters are
A q ( T )= A +4 JC 1 m +6 JC 2 b + J
{J
( 0 )
−J
( k )
}
(1
m )
N
k
1
+
J{J
( k )
−J
( k q )
}m k
(5 . 2 . 31 a )
and
B q ( T )= B 1+ 1
4 J +2 JC 1 b +6 JC 2 m +12 JC 3 b
2
J
{J
( 0 )
−J
( q )
}
b
2 N
k
N
k
1
1
+
J
{J
( 0 )
−J
( k )
}
b k +
J
{J
( k )
−J
( k q )
}
b k .
(5 . 2 . 31 b )
a k a k
m k
and b k are respectively the correlation functions (1 /J )
and
a k a +
(1 /J )
,and m and b are the corresponding aver-
ages over k . Equation (5.2.30) implies that the operator [ a q ,
k
=(1 /J )
a k a
k
], in the
equations of motion of any Green function involving a q , can be replaced
by the expression on the right-hand side. The same result is obtained if,
instead,
H
H 1 are replaced by A q ( T )and
B q ( T ) in (5.2.17). Consequently, the system behaves as if the Hamilto-
nian
H 2 is neglected, and A q and B in
H 2 is replaced by H 0 + H 1 , which is similar to
H 1
except for the introduction of the effective, temperature-dependent pa-
rameters. The RPA decoupling (5.2.29) introduces errors in the Green
functions, but only in the third order of 1 /J , and as it leads to an effec-
tive Hamiltonian which is quadratic in the Bose operators, it is a valid
procedure. This internal consistency of the theory to second order in
H 0 +
H 1 +
H 0 +
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