Universal behavior of the BCS energy gap

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Abstract
We consider the BCS energy gap „.T / (essentially given by „.T /  .T; p/, the BCS order parameter) at all temperatures 0  T  Tc up to the critical one, Tc, and show that, in the limit of weak coupling, the ratio „.T /=Tc is given by a universal function of the relative temperature T =Tc. On the one hand, this recovers a recent result by Langmann and Triola [Phys. Rev. B 108 (2023), no. 10, article no. 104503] on three-dimensional s-wave superconductors for temperatures bounded uniformly away from Tc. On the other hand, our result lifts these restrictions, as we consider arbitrary spatial dimensions d 2 ¹1; 2; 3º, discuss superconductors with non-zero angular momentum (primarily in two dimensions), and treat the perhaps physically most interesting (due to the occurrence of the superconducting phase transition) regime of temperatures close to Tc. ​ .
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Date Published
2025-01-09
Journal Title
Journal of Spectral Theory
Publisher
European Mathematical Society Press
Acknowledgement
We thank Andreas Deuchert, Christian Hainzl, Edwin Langmann, Marius Lemm, Robert Seiringer, and Jan Philip Solovej for helpful discussions, and Edwin Langmann and Robert Seiringer for valuable comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Funding. Joscha Henheik gratefully acknowledges partial financial support by the ERC Advanced Grant “RMTBeyond” No. 101020331. Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen gratefully acknowledges partial financial support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through grant DOI 10.55776/I6427 (as part of the SFB/TRR 352).
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15
Issue
1
Page
305–352
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