Many-body perturbation theory, parts from last week

We assume here that we are only interested in the ground state of the system and expand the exact wave function in term of a series of Slater determinants

$$ \vert \Psi_0\rangle = \vert \Phi_0\rangle + \sum_{m=1}^{\infty}C_m\vert \Phi_m\rangle, $$

where we have assumed that the true ground state is dominated by the solution of the unperturbed problem, that is

$$ \hat{H}_0\vert \Phi_0\rangle= W_0\vert \Phi_0\rangle. $$

The state \( \vert \Psi_0\rangle \) is not normalized, rather we have used an intermediate normalization \( \langle \Phi_0 \vert \Psi_0\rangle=1 \) since we have \( \langle \Phi_0\vert \Phi_0\rangle=1 \).