“…Once the renormalized parametersǫ d andṼ have been determined the free quasiparticle Hamiltonian can be diagonalized and written in the form (15) where p † k,σ , p k,σ , and h † k,σ , h k,σ , are the creation and annihilation operators for the quasiparticle and quasihole excitations, and Λ −(N −1)/2 E p,k (N ) and Λ −(N −1)/2 E h,k (N ) are the corresponding excitation energies relative to the ground or vacuum state |0 ; the scale factor Λ −(N −1)/2 is due to the fact that the energies are calculated for the rescaled Hamiltonian, which is such that E p,k (N ) and E h,k (N ) for k = 1 are of order 1. For the lowest-lying level particle and hole levels, we have E p (N ) = E p,1 (N ) and E h (N ) = E h,1 (N ).…”