Green functions in the renormalized many-body perturbation theory for correlated and disordered electrons

Abstract

The ways of introducing and handling renormalizations in the many-body perturbation theory are reviewed. We stress the indispensable role the technique of Green functions plays in extrapolating the weak-coupling perturbative approaches to intermediate and strong couplings. We separately discuss mass and charge renormalizations. The former is incorporated in a self-consistent equation for the self-energy derived explicitly from generating Feynman diagrams within the Baym and Kadanoff approach. The latter amounts to self-consistent equations for two-particle irreducible vertices. We analyze the charge renormalization initiated by De Dominicis and Martin and demonstrate that its realization via the parquet approach may become a powerful and viable way of using the many-body diagrammatic approach reliably in non-perturbative regimes with cooperative phenomena induced by either strong interaction or strong static randomness.

Keywords

• electron correlations
• random potential
• Green functions and many-body perturbation theory
• mass and charge renormalization
• parquet equations
• high spatial dimensions