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Implicit renormalization approach to the problem of Cooper instability

Superconductivity 2019-08-19 v1

Abstract

In the vast majority of cases, superconducting transition takes place at exponentially low temperature TcT_c out of the Fermi liquid regime. We discuss the problem of determining TcT_c from known system properties at temperatures TTcT \gg T_c, and stress that this cannot be done reliably by following the standard protocol of solving for the largest eigenvalue of the original gap-function equation. However, within the implicit renormalization approach, the gap-function equation can be used to formulate an alternative eigenvalue problem, solving which leads to an accurate prediction for both TcT_c and the gap function immediately below TcT_c. With the diagrammatic Monte Carlo techniques, this eigenvalue problem can be solved without invoking the matrix inversion or even explicitly calculating the four-point vertex function.

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@article{arxiv.1905.03732,
  title  = {Implicit renormalization approach to the problem of Cooper instability},
  author = {Andrey Chubukov and Nikolay V. Prokof'ev and Boris V. Svistunov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.03732},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures

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