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In this dissertation, three main parts are included: (1) The first part is devoted to a new numerical method developed by us. As is well known, the difficulty resulting from the anti- commutation relation of fermion operators has been a long- standing problem in computational physics. In our work, based on the microcanonical ensemble theory in statistical mechanics, we propose and prove a new theory and then devise a method that can overcome this difficulty. In our method, we use the expectation value of the energy, as defined in quantum mechanics, instead of eigenvalue as the energy of a physical system. (2) In the second part, we improve and extend the work of Gorecki and Byers Brown. They proposed a variational theory for the ground state of a quantum system. They assumed the trial wave function in confined systems as , where acting as a variable contour function to minimize the energy. Their method gives unsatisfactory results in asymmetrical quantum problems, and therefore rarely used. We generalize their method by assuming the trial wave function as , where is a linear combination of basis functions. The meaning of our improvement is to propose a general variational method. (3) The third part was our earlier work before our direction of the research was switched into computational physics. We made a systematic survey on a simplified BCS model. We derive exact eigenfunctions of this hamiltonian. The eigenstates dispaly apparently the symmetry breaking property and the bosonic and the fermionic behaviors are seperated respectively in the ground state and in excited states. This fact is interesting in understanding the symmetry breaking phenomenon. Our work may also help to clarify the mathematical rigor of the non-zero vacuum expectation value in the symmetry breaking theory.
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