1304.0307 (Kamal Bhattacharyya)

On two classes of perturbations: Role of signs of second-order
Rayleigh-Schrödinger energy corrections    [PDF]

Kamal Bhattacharyya

We distinguish two extreme classes of perturbation problems depending on the signs of second-order energy corrections and argue why it is generally much more probable to obtain a negative value of the same for any state in the standard Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory. The classes are seen to differ in reproducing results of finite-dimensional matrix perturbations. A few related issues are also discussed, some of which are based on available analytical results.

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