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Nambu identity and collective modes in superconductors and superfluid $^3$He

Superconductivity 2017-04-11 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

Collective modes manifest themselves in a variety of different physical systems ranging from superconductors to superfluid 3^{3}He. The collective modes are generated via the Higgs-Anderson mechanism that is based on the symmetry breaking double well potential. Recently collective modes were explored in superconducting NbN and InO in the presence of a strong terahertz laser field. In both cases a single collective mode that oscillates with twice the frequency of the superconducting energy gap Δ\Delta was discovered. Superfluid 3^{3}He is the host for a whole variety of collective modes. In particular, in the superfluid 3^{3}He B-phase, two massive collective modes were found with masses 8/5Δ\sqrt{{8}/{5}}\Delta and 12/5Δ\sqrt{{12}/{5}}\Delta. We show that for both cases of the superconducting films and for the superfluid 3^{3}He B-phase, the collective modes satisfy the Nambu identity that relates the masses of different collective modes to the energy gap parameter Δ\Delta.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02395,
  title  = {Nambu identity and collective modes in superconductors and superfluid $^3$He},
  author = {Gavriil Shchedrin and David M. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02395},
  year   = {2017}
}