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Nonequilibrium Cooper pairing in the nonadiabatic regime

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We obtain a complete solution for the mean-field dynamics of the BCS paired state with a large, but finite number of Cooper pairs in the non-adiabatic regime. We show that the problem reduces to a classical integrable Hamiltonian system and derive a complete set of its integrals of motion. The condensate exhibits irregular multi-frequency oscillations ergodically exploring the part of the phase-space allowed by the conservation laws. In the thermodynamic limit however the system can asymptotically reach a steady state.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0505493,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium Cooper pairing in the nonadiabatic regime},
  author = {Emil A. Yuzbashyan and Boris L. Altshuler and Vadim B. Kuznetsov and Victor Z. Enolskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0505493},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, no figures