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Mysterious dimensionality effect: the cancellation of the $N$-coboson correlation energy under a BCS-like potential

Quantum Gases 2016-12-13 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We use Richardson-Gaudin exact equations to derive the ground-state energy of NN composite bosons (cobosons) interacting via a potential which acts between fermion pairs having zero center-of-mass momentum, that is, a potential similar to the reduced BCS potential used in conventional superconductivity. Through a density expansion, we show that while, for 2D systems, the NN-coboson correlation energy undergoes a surprising cancellation which leaves the interaction part with a N(N1)N(N-1) dependence only, such a cancellation does not exist in 1D, 3D, and 4D systems --- which corresponds to 2D parabolic traps --- nor when the cobosons interact via a similar short-range potential but between pairs having an arbitrary center-of-mass momentum. This shows that the previously-found cancellation which exists for the Cooper-pair correlation energy results not only from the very peculiar form of the reduced BCS potential, but also from a quite mysterious dimensionality effect, the density of states for Cooper pairs feeling the BCS potential being essentially constant, as for 2D systems.

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@article{arxiv.1609.02335,
  title  = {Mysterious dimensionality effect: the cancellation of the $N$-coboson correlation energy under a BCS-like potential},
  author = {Shiue-Yuan Shiau and Monique Combescot and Yia-Chung Chang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02335},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure; accepted by Phys. Rev. A