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If ψ is a determinantal variational trial function for the N-fermion Hamiltonian, H, with one- and two-body terms, then e 0 ⩽ 〈 ψ,Hψ〉= E(K), where e 0 is the ground-state energy, K is the one-body reduced density matrix of ψ, and E(K) is the well-known expression in terms of direct and exchange energies. If an arbitrary one-body K is given, which does not come from a determinantal ψ, then E(K) ⩾ e 0 does not necessarily hold. It is shown, however, that if the two-body part of H is positive, then in fact e 0⩽e HF ⩽ E(K), where e HF is the Hartree-Fock ground-state energy.
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Lieb, E.H. (1997). Variational Principle for Many-Fermion Systems. In: Thirring, W. (eds) The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03436-1_20
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