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Ground state of the three-dimensional BCS d-wave superconductor

Superconductivity 2019-09-11 v2 Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We determine the mean-field ground state of the three-dimensional rotationally symmetric d-wave (=2\ell=2) superconductor at weak coupling. It is a non-inert state, invariant under the symmetry C2C_{2} only, which breaks time reversal symmetry almost maximally, and features a high, but again less than maximal average magnetization. The state obtained by minimization of the expanded sixth-order Ginzburg--Landau free energy is found to be an excellent approximation to the true ground state. The coupling to a parasitic s-wave component has only a minuscule quantitative and no qualitative effect on the ground state.

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@article{arxiv.1907.05015,
  title  = {Ground state of the three-dimensional BCS d-wave superconductor},
  author = {Igor F. Herbut and Igor Boettcher and Subrata Mandal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05015},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 revtex pages; typos corrected, references updated and added, close to published version