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International Journal of Modern Physics Conference Series

DISORDER INDUCED BCS-BEC CROSSOVER

Ayan Khan

Published Jan 1, 2012• 3 citations
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Abstract

Of late, the study of BCS-BEC crossover in the presence of weak random impurity is an interesting issue. In this proceedings we study the effect of this disorder which is included through the Nozières and Smith-Rink theory of superconducting fluctuations. In the weak regime, the random potential leaves an effect on the superconducting order parameter but it spares the chemical potential. Here we present the exact behavior of the mean field quantities as a function of the disorder by self-consistently solving the coupled equations.

DOI
10.1142/s2010194512006009

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Of late, the study of BCS-BEC crossover in the presence of weak random impurity is an interesting issue. In this proceedings we study the effect of this disorder which is included through the Nozières and Smith-Rink theory of superconducting fluctuations. In the weak regime, the random potential leaves an effect on the superconducting order parameter but it spares the chemical potential. Here we present the exact behavior of the mean field quantities as a function of the disorder by self-consistently solving the coupled equations.
In this paper, we have investigated the effect of weak random disorder in the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer to Bose–Einstein condensation (BCS–BEC) crossover region. The disorder is included in the mean field formalism through Nozières–Smith-Rink (NSR) theory of superconducting fluctuations. A self-consistent numerical solution of the coupled equations involving the superfluid gap parameter and density as a function of the disorder strength, albeit unaffected in the BCS phase, yields a depleted order parameter in the BEC regime and an interesting nonmonotonic behaviour of the condensate fraction in the vicinity of the unitary region, and a gradual depletion thereafter, as the pairing interaction is continuously tuned across the BCS–BEC crossover. The unitary regime thus demonstrates a robust paradigm of superfluidity even when the disorder is introduced. To support the above feature and shed light on a lingering controversial issue, we have computed the behaviour of the sound mode across the crossover that distinctly reveals a suppression of the sound velocity. We also find the Landau critical velocity that shows similar nonmonotonicity as that of the condensate fraction data, thereby supporting a stable superfluid scenario in the unitary limit.
The BCS-BEC crossover is studied in a systematic way in the broken-symmetry phase between zero temperature and the critical temperature. This study bridges two regimes where quantum and thermal fluctuations are, respectively, important. The theory is implemented on physical grounds, by adopting a fermionic self-energy in the broken-symmetry phase that represents fermions coupled to superconducting fluctuations in weak coupling and to bosons described by the Bogoliubov theory in strong coupling. This extension of the theory beyond mean field proves important at finite temperature, to connect with the results in the normal phase. The order parameter, the chemical potential, and the single-particle spectral function are calculated numerically for a wide range of coupling and temperature. This enables us to assess the quantitative importance of superconducting fluctuations in the broken-symmetry phase over the whole BCS-BEC crossover. Our results are relevant to the possible realizations of this crossover with high-temperature cuprate superconductors and with ultracold fermionic atoms in a trap.
A systematic investigation of the effects of disorder on the BCS-BEC crossover at the lowest order in the impurity potential is presented for the normal phase above the critical temperature Tc{T}_{c}Tc​. Starting with the ttt-matrix approach for the clean system, by which pairing correlations between opposite-spin fermions evolve from the weak-coupling (BCS) to the strong-coupling (BEC) limits by increasing the strength of the attractive interparticle interaction, all possible diagrammatic processes are considered where the effects of a disordered potential are retained in the self-energy at the lowest order. An accurate numerical investigation is carried out for all these diagrammatic terms, to determine which of them are mostly important throughout the BCS-BEC crossover. Explicit calculations for the values of Tc{T}_{c}Tc​, the chemical potential, and the Tan's contact are carried out. In addition, the effect of disorder on the single-particle spectral function is analyzed, and a correlation is found between an increase of Tc{T}_{c}Tc​ and a widening of the pseudogap energy at Tc{T}_{c}Tc​ on the BCS side of unitarity in the presence of disorder, while on the BEC side of unitarity the presence of disorder favors the collapse of the underlying Fermi surface. The present investigation is meant to orient future studies when the effects of disorder will be considered at higher orders, with the purpose of limiting the proliferation of diagrammatic terms in which interaction and disorder are considered simultaneously.
We investigate the ground state properties of a disordered superfluid Fermi gas across the BCS-BEC (Bose-Einstein condensate) crossover. We show that, for weak disorder, both the depletion of the condensate fraction of pairs and the normal fluid density exhibit a nonmonotonic behavior as a function of the interaction parameter 1/k{F}a, reaching their minimum value near unitarity. We find that, moving away from the weak-coupling BCS regime, Anderson's theorem ceases to apply and the superfluid order parameter is more and more affected by the random potential.
We study the disorder effects upon superconducting transition temperature T c and the number of local pairs within the attractive Hubbard model in the combined Nozieres-Schmitt-Rink and DMFT + Σ approximations. We analyze the wide range of attractive interaction U, from the weak coupling region, where instability of the normal phase and superconductivity are well described by the BCS model, to the limit of strong coupling, where superconducting transition is determined by Bose-Einstein condensation of compact Cooper pairs, forming at temperatures much higher than superconducting transition temperature. It is shown that disorder can either suppress T c in the weak coupling limit, or significantly enhance T c in the case of strong coupling. However, in all cases we actually prove the validity of generalized Anderson theorem, so that all changes in T c are related to change in the effective bandwidth due to disorder. Similarly, disorder effects on the number of local pairs are only due to these band-broadening effects.