Abstract
The spurious state problem is generalized Dyson boson mapping is examined. For cases where the fermion space is restricted to at most four-quasiparticle excitations, we show that Dyson boson images of normal-ordered quasiparticle interactions have identically vanishing matrix elements in the unphysical boson space. This ‘‘decoupling’’ feature explains the finding of previous authors that, in systems with at most four quasiparticles, every spurious state appears at its unperturbed energy. However, we show that the decoupling property does not generally hold in problems where there are excitations of more than four quasiparticles. Claims about methods for the spurious state problem, even though verified in four-quasiparticle calculations, may therefore be of limited validity.
- Received 2 July 1985
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.32.1776
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