Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
1998-11-12
Phys. Rev. B 62 (2000) 15370 (paper reduced by half)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
25 pages, 14 figures included in paper
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.61.15370
We consider the problem of the crossover from BCS superconductivity to Bose-Einstein condensation in three dimensions for a system of fermions with an attractive interaction, for which we adopt the simplifying assumption of a suitably regularized point-contact interaction. We examine in a critical way the fermionic (self-consistent) T-matrix approximation which has been widely utilized in the literature to describe this crossover above the superconducting critical temperature, and show that it fails to yield the correct behaviour of the system in the strong-coupling limit, where composite bosons form as tightly bound fermion pairs. We then set up the correct approximation for a ``dilute'' system of composite bosons and show that an entire new class of diagrams has to be considered in the place of the fermionic T-matrix approximation for the self-energy. This new class of diagrams correctly describes both the weak- and strong-coupling limits, and consequently results into an improved interpolation scheme for the intermediate (crossover) region. In this context, we provide also a systematic mapping between the corresponding diagrammatic theories for the composite bosons and the constituent fermions. As a preliminary result to demonstrate the numerical effect of our new class of diagrams on physical quantities, we calculate the value of the scattering length for composite bosons in the strong-coupling limit and show that it is considerably modified with respect to the result obtained within the self-consistent fermionic T-matrix approximation.
Pieri Pierbiagio
Strinati Giancarlo Calvanese
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