Related papers: Universal behavior of the BCS energy gap
The thermal field theory is applied to fermionic superfluids by doubling the degrees of freedom of the BCS theory. We construct the two-mode states and the corresponding Bogoliubov transformation to obtain the BCS thermal vacuum. The…
We calculate analytically the effective mass and the quasiparticle renormalization factor in an electron liquid with long-range Coulomb interactions between electrons in two and three dimensions in the leading order density expansion. We…
We analyze the anomalies of superconducting state within a simple exactly solvable model of the pseudogap state, induced by fluctuations of ``dielectric'' short range order, for the model of the Fermi surface with ``hot'' patches. The…
Transition temperatures $T_{c}$ calculated using the BCS model electron-phonon interaction without any adjustable parameters agree with empirical values for quasi-2D cuprate superconductors. They follow from a two-dimensional gas of…
The superconductor $FeSe_{0.5}Te_{0.5}$ was studied with Point Contact spectroscopy and specific heat in polycrystalline samples. The transition temperature determined by magnetic measurement was $T_C =14.5$ K. The size of the energy gap…
Recent interest in the study of color superconductivity has focused on the regime of high baryon density where perturbative QCD may be employed. Based on the dominant one-gluon-exchange interaction, both the transition temperature and zero…
It is argued on the basis of the BCS theory that the zero-$T$ penetration depth satisfies $ \lambda^{-2}(0)\propto\sigma T_c $ ($\sigma$ is the normal state dc conductivity) not only in the extreme dirty limit $\xi_0/\ell \gg 1$, but in a…
We study the phase diagram of the Hubbard model in the limit where U, the onsite repulsive interaction, is much smaller than the bandwidth. We present an asymptotically exact expression for T$_c$, the superconducting transition temperature,…
Superconductivity in the C32 compounds CaAlSi and SrAlSi is investigated by heat capacity (Cp) measurements as well as high-pressure ac-susceptibility experiments. The heat capacity in the superconducting state is well explained by the BCS…
We report a scaling relation between $\rho_s(0)$ and the product of the pseudogap temperature $T^{*}$, $\sigma_{\rm DC}$ and $T_c$, with $T^{*}$ rescaled by the maximum transition temperature $T_c^{\max}$, which holds universally in the…
We study phase transitions in a two dimensional weakly interacting Bose gas in a random potential at finite temperatures. We identify superfluid, normal fluid, and insulator phases and construct the phase diagram. At T=0 one has a…
In this paper we investigate the thermodynamical properties of ``unbalanced'' superconductors, namely, systems where the electron-boson coupling $\lambda$ is different in the self-energy and in the Cooper channels. This situation is…
The critical temperature T_c of an interacting Bose gas trapped in a general power-law potential V(x)=\sum_i U_i|x_i|^{p_i} is calculated with the help of variational perturbation theory. It is shown that the interaction-induced shift in…
It is shown that a cluster expansion technique, which is usually applied in the high-temperature regime to calcutate virial coefficients, can be applied to evaluate the superfluid transition temperature of the BCS-BEC crossover \`a la Lee…
Bose-Einstein condensation in a Bose gas is studied analytically, in any positive dimensionality ($d>0$) for identical bosons with any energy-momentum positive-exponent ($s>0$) plus an energy gap $\Delta$ between the ground state energy…
One of the goals in understanding any new class of superconductors is to search for commonalities with other known superconductors. The present work investigates the superconducting condensation energy, U, in the iron based superconductors…
We discuss standard and tighter upper bounds on the critical temperature $T_c$ of two-dimensional superconductors and superfluids versus particle density n or filling factor $\nu$, under the assumption that the transition from the normal to…
We first show some properties such as smoothness and monotone decreasingness of the solution to the BCS-Bogoliubov gap equation for superconductivity. Moreover we give the behavior of the solution with respect to the temperature near the…
We obtain the thermodynamic properties for a non-interacting Bose gas constrained on multilayers modeled by a periodic Kronig-Penney delta potential in one direction and allowed to be free in the other two directions. We report…
We present an analytically solvable theory of BCS-type superconductivity in good metals which are confined along one of the three spatial directions, such as thin films. Closed-form expressions for the dependence of the superconducting…