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Cooper pair dispersion relation for weak to strong coupling

Sadhan K. Adhikari, M. Casas, A. Puente, A. Rigo, M. Fortes, M. A. Solís, M. de Llano, Ariel A. Valladares, O. Rojo

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.62.8671 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Cooper pairing in two dimensions is analyzed with a set of renormalized equations to determine its binding energy for any fermion number density and all coupling assuming a generic pairwise residual interfermion interaction. Also considered are Cooper pairs (CP’s) with nonzero center-of-mass momentum (CMM) and their binding energy is expanded analytically in powers of the CMM up to quadratic terms. A Fermi-sea-dependent linear term in the CMM dominates the pair excitation energy in weak coupling (also called the BCS regime) while the more familiar quadratic term prevails in strong coupling (the Bose regime). The crossover, though strictly unrelated to BCS theory per se, is studied numerically as it is expected to play a central role in a model of superconductivity as a Bose-Einstein condensation of CPs where the transition temperature vanishes for all dimensionality d<~2 for quadratic dispersion, but is nonzero for all d>~1 for linear dispersion.

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