QED approach to valence-hole excitation in closed shell systems
arXiv:2206.06233 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.106.012802
Abstract
An ab initio QED approach to treat a valence-hole excitation in closed shell systems is developed in the framework of the two-time-Green function method. The derivation considers a redefinition of the vacuum state and its excitation as a valence-hole pair. The proper two-time Green function, whose spectral representation confirms the poles at valence-hole excitation energies is proposed. An contour integral formula which connects the energy corrections and the Green function is also presented. First-order corrections to the valence-hole excitation energy involving self-energy, vacuum polarization, and one-photon-exchange terms are explicitly derived in the redefined vacuum picture. Reduction to the usual vacuum electron propagators is given that agrees in the Breit approximation with the many-body perturbation theory expressions for the valence-hole excitation energy.
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