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 () superconductor at weak coupling. It is a non-inert state, invariant under the symmetry 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