Hi all,

this is a reminder of Christian Schilling's talk today at 4 pm in the Time Room.


Title: Pinning of Fermionic Occupation Numbers
Speaker: Christian Schilling (ETH Zurich)

Abstract:
The problem of determining and describing the family of 1-particle reduced density operators (1-RDO) arising from N-fermion pure states (via partial trace) is known as the fermionic quantum marginal problem. We present its solution, a multitude of constraints on the eigenvalues of the 1-RDO, generalizing the Pauli exclusion principle. To explore the relevance of these constraints we study an analytically solvable model of N fermions in a harmonic potential and determine the spectral `trajectory' corresponding to the ground state as function of the fermion-fermion interaction strength. Intriguingly, we find that the occupation numbers are almost, but not exactly, pinned to the boundary of the allowed region (quasi-pinned). Our findings suggest a generalization of the Hartree-Fock approximation.

Date: Monday, Jan 21, 2013 - 4:00 pm
Location: Time Room (294)


Best,
Markus