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L. Cândido

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Nonperturbative renormalization of Haldane pseudopotentials from the exact two-electron spectrum

Haldane pseudopotentials $V_{|m|}$ provide the effective interaction parameters governing correlated states in the fractional quantum Hall regime. In conventional formulations, these quantities are obtained by projecting the Coulomb interaction onto relative-angular-momentum states within the lowest Landau level, thereby neglecting virtual transitions to higher Landau levels. Here, we formulate a nonperturbative description of effective interactions directly from the exact two-electron spectrum in a magnetic field. By solving the relative-motion problem beyond the lowest-Landau-level approximation, we define renormalized pseudopotentials $V^*_{|m|}$ from the exact eigenenergies and introduce dynamical corrections $Δ_{|m|}=V^*_{|m|}-V_{|m|}$. The corrections remain systematically negative and depend strongly on both interaction strength and relative angular momentum, reflecting dynamical correlation effects associated with higher-state virtual admixture. The exact results reproduce the perturbative Landau-level-mixing limit at weak coupling while exhibiting substantial deviations in the strong-mixing regime, signaling the breakdown of low-order perturbative expansions. In particular, the short-range interaction channels relevant to Laughlin-type correlations undergo strong renormalization, leading to substantial modification of the effective interaction hierarchy in strongly interacting systems such as ZnO/MgZnO heterostructures. The present formulation establishes a microscopic framework for incorporating nonperturbative Landau-level-mixing effects into effective interaction theories of quantum Hall systems.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

Revealing the regularities of electron correlation energies associated with valence electrons in atoms in the first three rows of the periodic table

Electronic correlation is a complex many-body effect and the correlation energy depends on the specific electronic structure and spatial distribution of electrons in each atom and molecule. Although the total correlation energy in an atom can be decomposed into different components such as inter-orbital and intra-orbital pair-correlation energies (PCE), it is generally believed that the PCEs in different atoms cannot be the same. In this work, we investigate the correlation energies of the atoms in the first three rows of the periodic table (He to Ar). It is found that when the correlation energy is defined as the difference between the exact ground-state energy and the unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) energy, the inter- and intra-orbital PECs associated with the valence electrons of the atoms in the same row of the periodic table have the same values. These PCEs are not entangled and their values depend only on the electron orbitals. For two specific orbitals, the inter-orbital correlation energy is the same between two electrons of parallel spins or anti-parallel spins. We also show that the effects of orbital relaxation on the correlation energy are surprisingly small.

physics.chem-ph↗