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Journal of Physics Conference Series

Integrable Richardson-Gaudin models in mesoscopic physics

J. Dukelsky

Published Feb 27, 2012• 4 citations
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Abstract

The exact solution of the SU(2) pairing Hamiltonian with non-degenerate single particle orbits was introduced by Richardson in the early sixties. The exact solution passed almost unnoticed till was recovered in the last decade in an effort to describe the disappearance of superconductivity in ultrasmall superconducting grains. Since then it has been extended to several families integrable models, called the Richardson-Gaudin (RG) models. In particular, the rational family of integrable RG models has been widely applied to mesoscopic systems like small grains, quantum dots and nuclear systems where finite size effects play an important role. We will first introduce these families of integrable models and then we will describe the first applications of the hyperbolic family to spinless cold fermionic atonies in two dimensional lattices and to heavy nuclei.

DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/338/1/012023

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The exact solution of the SU(2) pairing Hamiltonian with non-degenerate single particle orbits was introduced by Richardson in the early sixties. Since then it has been extended to several families of integrable models, called the Richardson-Gaudin (RG) models. In particular, the rational family of integrable RG models has been widely applied to mesoscopic systems like small grains, quantum dots and nuclear systems where finite size effects play an important role. We introduce these families of integrable models and then we describe a new separable pairing Hamiltonian derived from the hyperbolic family that provides an excellent reproduction of Gogny self-consistent mean-field calculations for heavy nuclei.
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We first show that the quantum pairing problem can be mapped exactly on to a classical electrostatic problem in two dimensions and then use this analogy to obtain a pictorial representation of how superconductivity arises in a finite fermionic system. Specific application to the nuclei 114–116 Sn suggests some new insight into the evolution of pairing correlations in a quantum system with few active particles. We also summarize other recent work on exactly solvable pairing models, including their applications in a wide variety of strongly correlated quantum systems.
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