The solution to the BCS gap equation and the second-order phase transition in superconductivity

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2011.05.025MaRDI QIDQ2275498zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shuji Watanabe

Publication date 9 August 2011

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0765

zbMATH Keywords

BCS gap equationnonlinear integral equationSchauder fixed-point theoremsecond-order phase transitionsuperconductivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other nonlinear integral equations (45G10) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: The existence and the uniqueness of the solution to the BCS gap equation of superconductivity is established in previous papers, but the temperature dependence of the solution is not discussed. In this paper, in order to show how the solution varies with the temperature, we first give another proof of the existence and the uniqueness of the solution and point out that the unique solution belongs to a certain set. Here this set depends on the temperature $T$. We define another certain subset of a Banach space consisting of continuous functions of both $T$ and $x$. Here, $x$ stands for the kinetic energy of an electron minus the chemical potential. Let the solution be approximated by an element of the subset of the Banach space above. We second show, under this approximation, that the transition to a superconducting state is a second-order phase transition.

Review text

The first part of the present paper is devoted to an alternative proof of the existence of a unique solution to the BCS gap equation. Next, it is defined a certain subspace \(W\) of a Banach space consisting of continuous functions and it is considered the solution approximated by an element of \(W\). Next, it is shown that, under this approximation, the transition to a superconducting state is a second-order phase transition. In other words, it is established that the condition that the solution belongs to \(W\) is a sufficient condition for the second-order phase transition to superconductivity.

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