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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Inclusion of Landau damping in a time-dependent effective theory for a weak-coupling superconductor at finite temperature

I. J. R. Aitchison, D. J. Lee

Published Oct 1, 1997• 6 citations

Abstract

The effective propagator for the Goldstone mode (phase of the order parameter) is calculated for a neutral BCS system in the long-wavelength/low-frequency limit, with inclusion of Landau damping terms, for temperatures between $T=0$ and ${T=0.6T}_{c}.$ The Landau terms are first evaluated numerically, and then accurate closed-form expressions are found for them. The resulting propagator is shown to be well approximated by the product of two simple poles at complex energy, corresponding to a damped mode with linear (and $T$-dependent) dispersion for both the real and imaginary parts. Damping is only significant for $T>~{0.4T}_{c}.$ By considering the Fourier transform of the inverse of this pole-dominated propagator, an effective local equation of motion for the phase degree of freedom is obtained, which includes a specific damping term. The damping may be phenomenologically included in the equivalent time-dependent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation by giving the pair mass a small temperature-dependent positive imaginary part.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.56.8303

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The effective propagator for the Goldstone mode (phase of the order parameter) is calculated for a neutral BCS system in the long-wavelength/low-frequency limit, with inclusion of Landau damping terms, for temperatures between

T=0

and

{T=0.6T}_{c}.

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T

-dependent) dispersion for both the real and imaginary parts. Damping is only significant for

T>~{0.4T}_{c}.

By considering the Fourier transform of the inverse of this pole-dominated propagator, an effective local equation of motion for the phase degree of freedom is obtained, which includes a specific damping term. The damping may be phenomenologically included in the equivalent time-dependent nonlinear Schr"odinger equation by giving the pair mass a small temperature-dependent positive imaginary part.

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