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Lecture 2 – Superfluid 3 He: Basic Description Ref: AJL, Quantum Liquids, 6.1-2

Lecture 2 – Superfluid 3 He: Basic Description Ref: AJL, Quantum Liquids, 6.1-2 3 He: electronic state (1s) 2 1 S o , is very inert. Nuclear spin ½  system of spin- fermions (like electrons in metals). Atom-atom Interaction :. “hard-core” repulsion. V(r) . r . vdW attraction.

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Lecture 2 – Superfluid 3 He: Basic Description Ref: AJL, Quantum Liquids, 6.1-2

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  1. Lecture 2 – Superfluid 3He: Basic Description Ref: AJL, Quantum Liquids, 6.1-2 3He: electronic state (1s)21So, is very inert. Nuclear spin ½  system of spin- fermions (like electrons in metals) Atom-atom Interaction: “hard-core” repulsion V(r)  r  vdW attraction ro (~3Å) Liquid 3He: since 1950 (3H →3He + e + in reactors, weapons) Below ~ 100 mK, behaves much like (very pure) textbook normal metal (Fermi gas) viscosity spin diffusion thermal cond. but interaction effects v. strong (e.g.~ 20 times value for F.gas)Why?

  2. Landau Fermi liquid theory: start from free Fermi gas, turn on interactions adiabaticallyAssume GS evolves adiabatically (excludes superconductivity, ferromagnetism, crystallization…) Then GS and low excited states labeled by quantities = 0 or 1, = 0 or -1, } Expand E of low-lying excited states in :  GSE Symmetry   volume Informal summary of Landau FL theory: particles → “quasiparticles”, fermions with effective mass m* subject to molecular fields, with coeffs. prop. to generated by polarizations of the system (example follows) For real liquid 3He.

  3. Molecular fields: example* (recap): Select term corr. But: Equivalent to molecular field Application: response to external field (k;) Spin response of noninteracting F. gas with mass m* e.g. since static *note spin, field in arbitrary units.

  4. Some effects of (spin) molecular field in 3He: A. Enhanced low-energy spin fluctuations: B. Coupling of atomic spins by exchange of virtual paramagnons exchange of V.P’s induces extra effective spin-spin interaction In limit must bc + ve (stability!), hence in this limit VP-induced interaction always attractive in spin triplet state, repulsive in singlet. F. liquid F. gas ↓ Im w/q  “paramagnon” (V.P’s) 3He:                                              

  5. Pairing interaction in liquid 3He: (a) Hard core much stronger than for electrons in metals l = 0 disfavored V(r)  r “bare” atom-atom potential ro(~3Å) Would like to have first max in radial prob. distrn. at r ~ ro.But C. pairs formed from states near F. surface  k ~ kF., hence first max. at r ~ l/kF.  l ~ kFro i.e. l = 1,2, or 3.  orig. favored by theory (b) Spin-fluctuation exchange  extra term, attractive (repulsive) for S = 1 (S = 0) (a) + (b) + Pauli principle  l = 1 may be favored. Need to generalize BCS theory to l  0 pairing. 1. (for orientation only): anisotropic singlet pairing(e.g. l = 2) BCS ansatz: N = (ck)N/2 |vac>, but now Ck can depend on direction of k on FS. otherwise, all the BCS-based maneuvers go through… k quasiparticle operators

  6. Anisotropic singlet pairing (cont) Recap: N = (ck)N/2 |vac>, All subsequent operations just as in s-wave case, e.g. still have Fk = Dk /2Ek but Fk (hence F(r)) now depends on direction of k (r). Gap equation: nontrivially dependent on dirn. of k-k'. Resolve V into spherical harmonic components: for |k|~ |k'|~kF. ck function of direction aswell as magnitude of k. Legendre polynomial If for some loVlis appreciably larger than for other l’s, than for |k| ~ kF spherical harmonic To find coefficients lm, minimize (free) energy with respect to possible choices (crudely: for given | minimize | Note optimal solution may involve nontrivially complex  possible nonzero angular momentum of paired state. More generally, since for lo 0  must be anisotropic, expect physical properties anisotropic Vkk'= lVlPl k lmYlm() l • m Dk = -  Vkk'tanh (Ek'/2kBT) k

  7. Digression: can an anisotropic Fermi superfluid have (large) angular momentum? Recap: N = (ck)N/2 |vac>  (+)N/2|vac> * k k l may be complex > Consider e.g. case ck = f(|k|,k) exp 2ik(d-wave) Naïve approach (ignore boundaries, etc.): k k = generator of rotations around z-(l-) axis [or explicit calcn.] ß zN = NħN Generalization to nonzero T: anisotropic F. superfluid has macroscopic (~N) ang. momentum at any temperature below Tc! Is this physically correct? Alternative ansatz: start with N ground state (F. sea), excite pairs from |k| < kF to |k| >kF (details: AJL QL appendix 6A) This state has Lz ~Nħ( / EF)2« Nħ Which is right? (expt.?)

  8. Spin triplet pairing Simplest case (“ESP)  equal spin pairing With suitable choice of spin axes, only parallel spins paired  |vac> (3) Pauli principle  ck = -c-k, but in general no particular wherever ck and ck. Note (?) is coherentsuperposn. of  and  pairs, not equivalent to |vac>   “Fock” state Analysis of energetics, etc. parallel to that for singlet pairing, but for spin-conserving potential,  and  gap equations decouple: Spin susceptibility of ESP state: in small field ℋ.  ,    kF• •  kF kF  Field does not interfere with pair formation! ESP  n N-state 

  9. Spin triplet pairing: the general case Most general “BCS-like” triplet-paired state: |vac> k ck = ck = -c-k , otherwise arbitrary Since for given kck is Hermitian, for given k then always exists a choice of spin axes which makes diagonal (ck = ck= 0) not necessarily unique In this set of axes can then define e.g. , etc. But in general gap eqn. etc. is quite messy. Enormous simplification if state is unitary, df. by = ind.of  , k. Then can write in arbitrary spin axes Fk,  k,/2Ek, Ek (k2 + |k|2)1/2 }ind. of  For spin-independent potential |k|2 ( |k,|2 <V> = Vkk'FkFk'   Gap eqn.:   i.e. gap eqns. For different matrix element  decoupled

  10. The d-vector notation (unitary states) Consider e.g. the pair w.f. or its FT For any given k can find choice of spin axes so that and from definition of unitary state. For 2 particles of spin d = real vector up to overall phase in xy-plane making awith y-axis, with magnitude equal to Generalizing to arbitrary reference frame, any unitary phase described by specifying for each k Technically, in an arb. reference frame In BCS case d(k) is usually a function only of k/

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