Xavier Andrade edited Sternheimer.tex  over 9 years ago

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In textbooks, perturbation theory is formulated in terms of sums over  states and response functions. These are useful theoretical  constructions that permit a good description and understanding of the  underlying physics. However, this is not always a good description starting point  for numerical applications, since it involves the calculation of a large  number of eigenvectors, infinite sums over these eigenvectors, and functions that depend on two or more spatial variables.