The BCS critical temperature in a weak homogeneous magnetic field

DOI10.4171/JST/270MaRDI QIDQ2335837zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. L. Frank, C. Hainzl, Edwin Langmann

Publication date 15 November 2019

Published in Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05686

zbMATH Keywords

BCS theorymagnetic fieldsuperconductivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We show that, within a linear approximation of BCS theory, a weak homogeneous magnetic field lowers the critical temperature by an explicit constant times the field strength, up to higher order terms. This provides a rigorous derivation and generalization of results obtained in the physics literature from WHH theory of the upper critical magnetic field. A new ingredient in our proof is a rigorous phase approximation to control the effects of the magnetic field.

Review text

Summary: We show that, within a linear approximation of BCS theory, a weak homogeneous magnetic field lowers the critical temperature by an explicit constant times the field strength, up to higher order terms. This provides a rigorous derivation and generalization of results obtained in the physics literature from WHH (Werthammer-Helfand-Hohenberg) theory of the upper critical magnetic field. A new ingredient in our proof is a rigorous phase approximation to control the effects of the magnetic field.

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