We investigate the spectrum of a model Hamiltonian with BCS and mean-field interaction in a finite domain under periodic boundary conditions. The model Hamiltonian is considered on the states of pairs and waves of density charges and their excitations. It is represented as the sum of three operators that describe noninteracting pairs, the interaction between pairs, and the interaction between pairs and waves of density charges. The last two operators tend to zero in the thermodynamic limit, and the spectrum of the model Hamiltonian coincides with the spectrum of noninteracting pairs with chemical potential shifted by mean-field interaction. It is shown that the model and approximating Hamiltonians coincide in the thermodynamic limit on their ground and excited states and both have two branches of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
The spectrum and eigenstates of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer's reduced Hamiltonian in the theory of superconductivity are investigated in a mathematically rigorous manner. The Hamiltonian is defined first for a finite number of electrons contained in a finite volume. The interaction Hamiltonian is assumed to take a simple form. The Hamiltonian after the Bogoliubov transformation (transformed Hamiltonian) has a limit in the weak topology of Hilbert space when the volume tends to infinity with the number density of electrons kept constant. In the limit the interaction part vanishes and the free part gives a continuous excitation spectrum of Bogolons (transformed electrons). It should be noticed that the operator norm of the former does not tend to zero and has no strong limit as well as the total Hamilton. An equivalent boson which consists of two Bogolons with opposite momenta and spins is introduced. In the Fock space for the bosons the Hamiltonian has a strong limit for infinite volume. The limit operator has the same excitation spectrum of Bogolons as the free Hamiltonian and the existence of the lower limit of the spectrum is shown for some special class of the interactions. For large volume the limit operator is a good approximation to be transformed Hamiltonian. The ground state of the free part of the transformed Hamiltonian (i.e. the ground state of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer's calculation) is not the exact eigenstate of the transformed total Hamiltonian and the difference does not vanish when the volume tends to infinity.