Beyond Perturbation Theory: A Resolvent-Based Framework for Strongly Correlated Many-Body Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00606v2
• Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:23:01 GMT
• Title: Beyond Perturbation Theory: A Resolvent-Based Framework for Strongly Correlated Many-Body Systems
• Abstract summary: Traditional perturbation theory fails in many-body systems with exponentially small energy gaps and strong interactions.<n>This work presents an alternative methodological framework built on two core principles.<n>It is applicable to the quantitative analysis of global properties in nonintegrable many-body systems.
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• Abstract: Traditional perturbation theory, based on local analyticity (Taylor expansion), often fails in many-body systems with exponentially small energy gaps and strong interactions. This work presents an alternative methodological framework built on two core principles: (1) starting from the pole expansion of the resolvent to directly capture the global analytic structure, and (2) treating local fluctuations statistically (in the spirit of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis) to close the mean-field equations. Crucially, we go beyond the mean-field level by deriving an exact recursive re-expansion of the cross-correlated terms, which systematically generates higher-order corrections that control the distribution tails, branch splitting, and fluctuations. The framework is realized through a hierarchical ansatz strategy, solving self-consistent equations with Lorentzian, Gaussian, and hybrid forms to describe the bulk, tail, and full distribution, respectively. This methodology does not rely on weak-coupling assumptions and is applicable to the quantitative analysis of global properties such as entropy production and distribution functions in nonintegrable many-body systems. We detail its mathematical structure, the recursive expansion of fluctuations, conditions of validity, comparison with traditional methods, and provide a general implementation workflow.

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