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Many-body perturbation theory

We can now this expression in terms of a perturbative expression in terms of \hat{H}_I where we iterate the last expression in terms of \Delta E \Delta E=\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\Delta E^{(i)}. We get the following expression for \Delta E^{(i)} \Delta E^{(1)}=\langle \Phi_0\vert \hat{H}_I\vert \Phi_0\rangle, which is just the contribution to first order in perturbation theory, \Delta E^{(2)}=\langle\Phi_0\vert \hat{H}_I\frac{\hat{Q}}{W_0-\hat{H}_0}\hat{H}_I\vert \Phi_0\rangle, which is the contribution to second order.