The BCS energy gap at low density

DOI10.1007/S11005-021-01358-5MaRDI QIDQ829973zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen

Publication date 7 May 2021

Published in Letters 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/2009.03701

zbMATH Keywords

superfluidityenergy gapBCS equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

Abstract: We show that the energy gap for the BCS gap equation is $Xi=muleft(8e^{-2}+o(1)ight)expleft(fracpi2sqrtmuaight)$ in the low density limit $muo0$. Together with the similar result for the critical temperature [arXiv:0803.3324] this shows that, in the low density limit, the ratio of the energy gap and critical temperature is a universal constant independent of the interaction potential $V$. The results hold for a class of potentials with negative scattering length $a$ and no bound states.

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