Generating Functional for Electron-Phonon Systems from Functional Integrals with One-Sided Boundary Conditions.

Abstract

The generating functional of thermal Green funcitons are generated for an interacting electron-phonon system through the use of functional integrals in holomorphic representations (c numbers for phonons and Grassman numbers for electrons). These integrals are over paths obeying one sided boundary conditions at either 0 or beta=1/kT, and do not require normalization factors unlike previous derivations. The Matsubara perturbation formalism is recovered without using any results from the standard operator method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 05, 1986
Accession Number
ADA174402

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People

  • Joao Florencia Jr

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  • University of Georgia

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Boundaries
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Fermions
  • Governments
  • Identities
  • Integrals
  • Military Research
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Perturbations
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  • United States Government

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  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

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  • Microelectronics