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Physical Review

Moment of Inertia of Superfluid Many-Fermion Systems

Ronald M. Rockmore

Published Jun 15, 1960• 11 citations
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Abstract

The effects of possible superfluidity on the cranking moment of a large many-fermion system moving under periodic boundary conditions are investigated within the framework of the theory of superconductivity recently formulated by Bogolyubov. The Hamiltonian is initially subjected to Bogolyubov's general unitary transformation. The collective excitations of the fermions are then considered in the usual pair approximation; the appropriate cranking terms are linear in the boson pair operators. On performing a unitary transformation which transforms away these linear terms, one obtains an expression for the moment of inertia of the system which includes both the effects of possible superfluidity and collective excitation. This expression, by virtue of its being stationary with respect to arbitrary variations in the amplitude associated with the latter unitary transformation, is then utilized as a variational principle for the moment of inertia. For the normal state, the result previously obtained by the author, that the moment of inertia has the rigid value, is rederived in more compact form. For the superfluid state, one finds that collective excitations effect a marked increase in the superfluid moment at intermediate coupling strengths although the resulting moment is still quite small compared to the rigid value. In contrast to the normal state case, where particle-hole pairs play a major role, this increase is almost entirely due to excitations consisting of particle-pairs or hole-pairs. The precise magnitude of the apparent resonance in the moment produced by the $d$-wave part of the cranking interaction is dependent to some extent on the features of the particle-particle potential which leads to the superfluid state. Variational expressions for the moment are exhibited for both Yukawa and delta-function shell potentials. These results are identical in charged and neutral Fermi systems. A calculation of the cranking moment at finite temperatures is presented in an Appendix along with an interpretation of it in terms of Bardeen's two-fluid model of superconductivity.

DOI
10.1103/physrev.118.1645

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The effects of possible superfluidity on the cranking moment of a large many-fermion system moving under periodic boundary conditions are investigated within the framework of the theory of superconductivity recently formulated by Bogolyubov. The Hamiltonian is initially subjected to Bogolyubov's general unitary transformation. The collective excitations of the fermions are then considered in the usual pair approximation; the appropriate cranking terms are linear in the boson pair operators. On performing a unitary transformation which transforms away these linear terms, one obtains an expression for the moment of inertia of the system which includes both the effects of possible superfluidity and collective excitation. This expression, by virtue of its being stationary with respect to arbitrary variations in the amplitude associated with the latter unitary transformation, is then utilized as a variational principle for the moment of inertia. For the normal state, the result previously obtained by the author, that the moment of inertia has the rigid value, is rederived in more compact form. For the superfluid state, one finds that collective excitations effect a marked increase in the superfluid moment at intermediate coupling strengths although the resulting moment is still quite small compared to the rigid value. In contrast to the normal state case, where particle-hole pairs play a major role, this increase is almost entirely due to excitations consisting of particle-pairs or hole-pairs. The precise magnitude of the apparent resonance in the moment produced by the ddd-wave part of the cranking interaction is dependent to some extent on the features of the particle-particle potential which leads to the superfluid state. Variational expressions for the moment are exhibited for both Yukawa and delta-function shell potentials. These results are identical in charged and neutral Fermi systems. A calculation of the cranking moment at finite temperatures is presented in an Appendix along with an interpretation of it in terms of Bardeen's two-fluid model of superconductivity.
It is shown that the moment of inertia of a noninteracting many-body fermion system moving under periodic boundary conditions has the classical or rigid value when calculated on the "cranking" model of Inglis. By investigating the analogous "pushing" case for the inertial mass we show that the rigid moment can be associated with rigid rotation in spite of apparent surface currents. The effect of particle-particle forces is investigated in the lowest order of perturbation theory. The terms corresponding to a level shift or effective mass are just compensated by other terms and there is no change in the moment of inertia. The possible general validity of these results and their consequence is discussed.
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It is shown that in the random-phase approximation the effect of particle-particle interaction on the moment of inertia of a many-fermion system moving under periodic boundary conditions vanishes when calculated on the "cranking" model of Inglis. This result is obtained by performing a unitary transformation on the equivalent Hamiltonian which reproduces the sequence of diagrams given by the random-phase approximation. The close resemblance of the general problem to the soluble model problem of a rotating dense electron gas is exploited in the calculation. This work extends that of Amado and Brueckner who have demonstrated only that interaction effects cancel in lowest order. The nature of their approximations and the connection to the problem of collective excitations are discussed.
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One considers the superfluid (SF) state of a Bose liquid with a strong repulsion between bosons, in which at T=0, along with a weak single-particle Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), there exists an intensive pair coherent condensate (PCC), analogous to the Cooper condensate in a Fermi liquid with an attraction between the fermions. Such a PCC emerges in a system of bosons due to an oscillating sign-changing momentum dependence of the Fourier component of the pair interaction potential, which is characteristic of a certain family of repulsion potentials. In such cases, the Fourier component is negative in some domain of nonzero momentum transfer, which corresponds to an effective attraction. The collective effects of renormalization (``screening'') of the initial interaction lead to a suppression of the repulsion and an enhancement of the effective attraction. It is the ratio of the BEC density to the full density of the liquid n0/n≪1n_0/n\ll 1n0​/n≪1 that is used as a small parameter---unlike in the Bogolyubov theory for a quasi-ideal Bose gas, in which the small parameter is the ratio of the number of supracondensate excitations to the number of particles in an intensive BEC, (n−n0)/n0≪1(n-n_0)/n_0\ll 1(n−n0​)/n0​≪1. A closed system of nonlinear integral equations for the normal and anomalous self-energy parts is obtained, in the framework of a renormalized perturbation theory built on combined hydrodynamic and field variables. In the framework of the hard-spheres model, a spectrum of quasiparticles is obtained, which is in good accordance with the experimental spectrum of elementary excitations in superfluid 4^44He. The question of applicability of the Landau criterion in the absence of quantum vortices is discussed.