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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.014513
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Province of Alberta
- Department of Physics and the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Alberta
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This paper provides a derivation of the Eliashberg theory based on a functional-integral approach and considers its Gaussian-fluctuation extension. The functional method allows for a systematic derivation of the Cooper and density-channel interactions in the Gaussian-fluctuation response.
The Eliashberg theory of superconductivity is based on a dynamical electron-phonon interaction as opposed to a static interaction present in BCS theory. The standard derivation of Eliashberg theory is based on an equation of motion approach, which incorporates certain assumptions such as Migdal's approximation for the pairing vertex. In this paper we provide a functional-integral-based derivation of Eliashberg theory and we also consider its Gaussian-fluctuation extension. The functional approach enables a self-consistent method of computing the mean-field equations, which arise as saddle-point conditions, and here we observe that the conventional Eliashberg self-energy and pairing function both appear as Hubbard-Stratonovich auxiliary fields. An important consequence of this fact is that it provides a systematic derivation of the Cooper and density-channel interactions in the Gaussian-fluctuation response. We also investigate the fluctuation contribution to the diamagnetic susceptibility near the critical temperature.
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