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Ground-state energy of a Richardson-Gaudin integrable BCS model

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2020-02-20 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We investigate the ground-state energy of a Richardson-Gaudin integrable BCS model, generalizing the closed and open p+ip models. The Hamiltonian supports a family of mutually commuting conserved operators satisfying quadratic relations. From the eigenvalues of the conserved operators we derive, in the continuum limit, an integral equation for which a solution corresponding to the ground state is established. The energy expression from this solution agrees with the BCS mean-field result.

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@article{arxiv.1912.05692,
  title  = {Ground-state energy of a Richardson-Gaudin integrable BCS model},
  author = {Yibing Shen and Phillip S. Isaac and Jon Links},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05692},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Submission to SciPost, 17 pages, no figures. This version is a minor modification, in response to referee comments