Optical BCS conductivity at imaginary frequencies and dispersion energies of superconductors

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/14/145304MaRDI QIDQ3558445zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 5 May 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3775

zbMATH Keywords

superconductorsoptical BCS conductivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We present an efficient expression for the analytic continuation to arbitrary complex frequencies of the complex optical and AC conductivity of a homogeneous superconductor with arbitrary mean free path. Knowledge of this quantity is fundamental in the calculation of thermodynamic potentials and dispersion energies involving type-I superconducting bodies. When considered for imaginary frequencies, our formula evaluates faster than previous schemes involving Kramers--Kronig transforms. A number of applications illustrates its efficiency: a simplified low-frequency expansion of the conductivity, the electromagnetic bulk self-energy due to longitudinal plasma oscillations, and the Casimir free energy of a superconducting cavity.

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