The BCS functional for general pair interactions

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0489-2zbMATH Open1161.82027arXivmath-ph/0703086OpenAlexW3100098571WikidataQ59255748 ScholiaQ59255748MaRDI QIDQ1006871FDOQ1006871

Authors: C. Hainzl, Eman Hamza, R. Seiringer, J. P. Solovej 

Publication date: 26 March 2009

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) functional has recently received renewed attention as a description of fermionic gases interacting with local pairwise interactions. We present here a rigorous analysis of the BCS functional for general pair interaction potentials. For both zero and positive temperature, we show that the existence of a non-trivial solution of the nonlinear BCS gap equation is equivalent to the existence of a negative eigenvalue of a certain linear operator. From this we conclude the existence of a critical temperature below which the BCS pairing wave function does not vanish identically. For attractive potentials, we prove that the critical temperature is non-zero and exponentially small in the strength of the potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0703086

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zbMATH Keywords

Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer functionalfermionic gaspair interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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