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arXiv:2407.20168 · Physical Review A

Universal corrections to the superfluid gap in a cold Fermi gas

Silas R. Beane, Zeno Capatti, Roland C. Farrell

Published Jan 13, 2025• 1 citation
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Abstract

A framework for computing the superfluid gap in an effective field theory (EFT) of fermions interacting via momentum-independent contact forces is developed. The leading universal corrections in the EFT are one-loop in-medium effects at the Fermi surface, and reproduce the well-known Gor'kov-Melik-Barkhudarov result. The complete subleading universal corrections are presented here, and include one-loop effects away from the Fermi surface, two-loop in-medium effects, as well as modifications to the fermion propagator. Together, these effects are found to reduce the gap at low densities. Applications to neutron superfluidity in neutron stars are also discussed.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.111.013309

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Abstract We compute singlet pairing gaps and critical temperatures in pure neutron matter with different many-body approximations. Medium effects tend to reduce gaps and critical temperatures compared to the standard BCS ansatz. In the mean-field approximation, the ratio of these two quantities remains constant across a wide range of densities. This constant ratio is close to the universal prediction of BCS theory, whether three-neutron interactions are included or not. Using a more sophisticated many-body approach that incorporates the effect of short-range correlations in pairing properties, we find that the gap to critical temperature ratio in the low-density regime is substantially larger than the BCS prediction, independently of the interaction. In this region, our results are relatively close to experiments and theoretical calculations from the unitary Fermi gas. We also find evidence for a different density dependence of zero-temperature gaps and critical temperatures in neutron matter.
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