Title
Crossover between BCS superconductor and BEC states in the attractive Anderson lattice model
Date Issued
01 October 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidade Do Estado Do Rio de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
Elsevier
Abstract
Using the method of Green functions equation of motion we considered the three dimensional Anderson lattice model with attractive interaction between f-electrons. We studied the appearance of superconductivity as a function of this attractive interaction and a hybridization between localized f-electrons and conduction c-electrons. The zero temperature phase diagram as a function of the hybridization and the strength of the attractive interaction is obtained. In this phase diagram a quantum phase transition is found which is characterized by a break up of the conventional BCS superconductor state, as the hybridization increases after a certain critical value, V c, and, at the same time, the beginning of a metallic-like state with preformed pairs. At sufficiently large attractive interactions and for V > V c, a superfluid state of Bose condensed pairs appears. We investigate for a possible coexistence between these pairs that form the superfluid state, characterized by gapped dispersion relations, and the metallic-like state characterized by gapless electronic excitations. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Start page
37
End page
42
Volume
480
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales Electroquímica Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84865689843
Source
Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
ISSN of the container
0921-4534
Sponsor(s)
We wish to thank the Brazilian agencies, FAPERJ and CNPq for financial support to this work. One of us (Daniel Reyes) would like to thank also the BEV fellowship from Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF) and the Auxı´lio Intalação-INST fellowship from FAPERJ for financial support.
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