Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation: Successes, Failure, and Cure

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

We recall the successes of the Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation (HST) of many-body theory, point out its failure to cope with competing channels of collective phenomena and show how to overcome this by Variational Perturbation Theory. That yields exponentially fast converging results, thanks to the help of a variety of {\it collective classical fields}, rather than a fluctuating {\it collective quantum field} as suggested by the HST.

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