Time-resolved spectral density of interacting fermions following a quench to a superconducting critical point

Yonah Lemonik; Aditi Mitra

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.104506

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Time-resolved spectral density of interacting fermions following a quench to a superconducting critical point

Yonah Lemonik, Aditi Mitra

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.104506 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Results are presented for the time evolution of fermions initially in a nonzero temperature normal phase, following the switch on of an attractive interaction. The dynamics are studied in the disordered phase close to the critical point, where the superfluid fluctuations are large. The analysis is conducted within a two-particle irreducible, large N approximation. The system is considered from the perspective of critical quenches where it is shown that the fluctuations follow universal model A dynamics. A signature of this universality is found in a singular correction to the fermion lifetime, given by a scaling form t(3−d)/2Sd(ɛ2t), where d is the spatial dimension, t is the time since the quench, and ɛ is the fermion energy. The singular behavior of the spectral density is interpreted as arising due to incoherent Andreev reflections off superfluid fluctuations.