Quasi-particles, thermodynamic consistency, and the gap equation

DOI10.1155/2017/6265427MaRDI QIDQ1798449zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors E. Guadagnini

Publication date 23 October 2018

Published in Advances in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02357

zbMATH Keywords

Bogoliubov transformationFermi sphere configurationquasi-particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Atomic physics (81V45) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: The thermodynamic properties of superconducting electrons are usually studied by means of the quasi-particles distribution; but in this approach, the ground state energy and the dependence of the chemical potential on the electron density cannot be determined. In order to solve these problems, the thermodynamic potentials are derived by means of the Bogoliubov-Valatin formalism. The thermodynamic potentials can be obtained by computing the free energy of a gas of quasi-particles, whose energy spectrum is conditional on the gap function. However, the nontrivial dependence of the gap on the temperature jeopardises the validity of the standard thermodynamic relations. In this article it is shown how the thermodynamic consistency (i.e. the validity of the Maxwell relations) is recovered, and the correction terms to the quasi-particles potentials are computed. It is shown that the Bogoliubov-Valatin transformation avoids the problem of the thermodynamic consistency of the quasi-particle approach; in facts, the correct identification of the variables, which are associated with the quasi-particles, leads to a precise calculation of the quasi-particles vacuum energy and of the dependence of the chemical potential on the electron density. The stationarity condition for the grand potential coincides with the gap equation, which guarantees the thermodynamic consistency. The expressions of various thermodynamic potentials, as functions of the (T,V,N) variables, are produced in the low temperature limit; as a final check, a rederivation of the condensation energy is presented.

Review text

In the Bogoliubov-Valatin approach, it has been shown that the relevant variables are associated with the energy fluctuations of the system around the Fermi sphere configuration. In the paper under review, by means of a Bogoliubov transformation in these variables, the author establishes the expression of the quasi-particles vacuum energy, which is the fundamental ingredient in the construction of the grand potential for the superconducting electrons. The stationarity condition for the grand potential coincides with the gap equation, which guarantees the thermodynamic consistency. Throughout this paper, the expressions of various thermodynamic potentials are produced in the low temperature limit.

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