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Collective modes, coupling constants and dynamical-symmetry rearrangement in superconductivity

Коллективные моды, по стоянные связи и уста новление динамической симмет рии в сверхпроводник ах

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Il Nuovo Cimento B (1971-1996)

Summary

A simplified approach to the field-theoretic treatment of superconductivity is developed. In addition to providing more clear derivations of known results, we derive some new results: expressions for the coupling constants of the Goldstone mode and the plasmon to the quasi-particles. Our formalism also provides a greatly simplified method for determining the specific form of current operators in terms of physical fields. This is based on the familiar fact that the matrix element of an operator density between physical states can be computed by coupling the operator density to an externalc-number field and evaluating the lowest-order transition amplitude induced by the field.

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Si sviluppa un approccio semplificato al trattamento della superconduttività nella teoria dei campi. Oltre a fornire più chiare derivazioni dei risultati nuovi, si deducono nuovi risultati: espressioni delle costanti di accoppiamento del modo di Goldstone e del plasmone alle quasi particelle. II nostro lormalismo fornisce un metodo molto semplificato per determinare la forma specifica degli operatori di corrente in termini di campi fisici. Ciò è basato sul f atto familare che l’elemento di matrice di una densità di operatore fra stati fisici può essere calcolato accoppiando la densità dell’operatore a un campo esterno di numeroc e valutando l’ampiezza di transizione di ordine inferiore indotta dal campo.

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Cremer, S., Sapir, M. & Lurié, D. Collective modes, coupling constants and dynamical-symmetry rearrangement in superconductivity. Nuov Cim B 6, 179–205 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02735385

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