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Monopole-Enriched Groundstates of Two-Dimensional BCS Models

Superconductivity 2016-12-20 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We extract the macroscopic characteristics of the groundstate sectors of two dimensional Bose-condensed BCS models with a fixed number of magnetic flux quanta, on length scales much larger than the characteristic size of the Cooper-pair bound states. We show that this reduces to the problem of computing the moduli space of gauge-inequivalent solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equations on a nontrivial fibre bundle. Inspired in part by the physical arguments of Oshikawa and Senthil in Fractionalization, Topological Order, and Quasiparticle Statistics, we extract a large class of groundstates from this moduli space.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01892,
  title  = {Monopole-Enriched Groundstates of Two-Dimensional BCS Models},
  author = {David Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01892},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures; Signifcant revision

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