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50 Years of BCS Theory“A Family Tree”
AncestorsBCSDescendants
D. Scalapino: Ancestors and BCS
J. Rowell : A “tunneling” branch of the family
G. Baym: From Atoms and Nuclei to the Cosmos
APS March Meeting 2007
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Supraconductivity`1911 H. Kamerlingh Onnes (Gilles Holst) finds a sudden
drop in the resistance of Hg at ~ 4.2K.
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1933 Meissner and Ochsenfeld discover that superconductors are perfect diamagnets --flux expulsion
Robert Ochsenfeld 1901 - 1993
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`• 1934 Casimir and Gorter ‘s two-fluid
phenomenological model of thermodynamic properties.
• 1934 Heinz and Fritz London’s phenomenological electrodynamics. F. London’s suggestion of the rigidity of the wave function.
• 1948 Fritz London, “Quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale, long range order in momentum.”
Fritz London (1900-1954)
Phenomenology
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1950 Ginzburg-Landau Theory
f(x) =n!
2m! |!i!!(x) +
e!
cA(x)!(x)|2 + !|!(x)|2 +
"
2|!(x)|4
+!|!(x)|2 +"
2|!(x)|4
L. LandauV. Ginzburg L. Landau
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Aleksei Abrikosov
1957 Type II Superconductivity
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But the question remained: “How does it work?”
R.P. Feynman ,1956 Seattle Conference
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But the question remained: “How does it work?”
A long list of the leading theoretical physicists inthe world had taken up the challenge of developinga microscopic theory of superconductivity.
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A.Einstein,“Theoretische Bemerkungen zur Supraleitung der Metalle”
Gedenkboek Kamerlingh Onnes, p.435 ( )translated by B. Schmekel cond-mat/050731
“...metallic conduction is caused by atoms exchanging their peripheral electrons. It seems unavoidable that supercurrents are carried by closed chains of molecules”
“Given our ignorance of quantum mechanics of composite systems, we are far away from being able to convert these
vague ideas into a theory.”
1922
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Felix Bloch is said to have joked that”superconductivity is impossible”.
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Washington DC APS MeetingMay 1-3,1941
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. . .
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In a superconductor,the exchange interaction associated with the Coulomb field leads to a spatial ordering of the electrons and the ordering of metastable current treads.
W. Heisenberg, Zeits. f. Naturkunde 2a, 185 (1947)
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“In contrast to a recent attempt of Heisenberg, superconductivity is characterized not as a state of electronic lattice order inordinary space but rather as a kind of condensed state in momentum space.”
“it is most probably the exchange interaction associated with the Coulomb field which is responsible for this condensation in momentum space.”
F. London, Phys. Rev. 74, 562 (1948)
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Frohlich’s and Bardeen’s electron-phononself-energy calculations ~ 1950
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Important experimental results were coming outduring this time.
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An important clue “The Isotope Effect”
Tc !M!!
! ! 0.5
• 1950, E.Maxwell and Reynolds, Serin, Wright and Nesbitt
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Brian Pippard
j(r)
A(r!)
!
ξ ! ξ0 = !vf/π∆
1953 Pippard coherence length
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The Electron-Phonon Interaction
• 1950 Frohlich electron-phonon model
• 1954 Nakajima included the screened Coulomb interaction
• 1955 Bardeen and Pines effective screened electron-phonon and Coulomb interaction--an attractive interaction for electrons near the fermi surface.
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Veff (k′, k) =2|M(k′, k)|2ω(k′ ! k)
(ε(k′)! ε(k))2 ! ω2(k′ ! k) + iδVel!ph(k", k)
k’k
-k -k’
Electron-phononinteraction
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Veff (k′, k) =2|M(k′, k)|2ω(k′ ! k)
(ε(k′)! ε(k))2 ! ω2(k′ ! k) + iδ
|!(k!)! !(k)| < "(k! ! k)for
Veff ! "2|M(k!, k)|2
!(k! " k)attractive
Vel!ph(k", k)
k’k
-k -k’
Electron-phononinteraction
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R.P. Feynman , International Congress on Theoretical Physics, Seattle,Sept. 21,1956
“The only reason that we cannot do this problem ofsuperconductivity is that we haven’t got enough imagination.”
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• 1956 L. Cooper “Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas”
• 1956 J. Bardeen, L.N. Cooper, J.R.Schrieffer “Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity”
• 1957 J.Bardeen, L.N. Cooper, J.R.Schrieffer “Theory of Superconductivity”
An answer was about to be given
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Two electrons outside afrozen fermi sea, interacting through an arbitrarly weakattractive force, will bind.
-
k
k
! 1N(0)|V |!EB ! !ce
!(r1, r2) =!
k
akei(r1!r2)"k("(1)#(2)! "(2)#(1))k > kf
• 1956 L. Cooper “Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas”
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From the BCS abstract:“the interaction between electrons resulting from the virtual exchange of phonons is attractive when the energy difference between the electron states involved is less than the phonon energy”
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“It is favorable to form a superconducting phase when this attractive interaction dominates the screened Coulomb interaction.”
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“It is favorable to form a superconducting phase when this attractive interaction dominates the screened Coulomb interaction.”
<!2|M!|2
!!+
4"e2
#2> < 0
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“The ground state of a superconductor is formed from a linear combination of normal state configurations in which electrons are virtually excited in pairs.”
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“The ground state of a superconductor is formed from a linear combination of normal state configurations in which electrons are virtually excited in pairs.”
!BCS = "k[(1! hk)1/2 + h1/2k b!k]#0
= !k[uk + vkc†k!c†"k#]|0 >
Schrieffer’s anzatz
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Ek =!
!2k + !2k
BCS Quasi-particles
!†k! = ukc†k! ! vkc"k#
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Ek =!
!2k + !2k
BCS Quasi-particles
!†k! = ukc†k! ! vkc"k#
Coherence factors
k
k’
k
k’
ultrasonic attenuation
nuclear spin latticerelaxation rate
(1! !k!k!
EkEk!)
(1 +!k!k!
EkEk!)
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ultrasonic attenuation
(1! !k!k!
EkEk!)
!(T )/!(Tc)
The coherence factors
Morse and Bohm Phys Rev ‘57
! 0
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T/
T/
The coherence factors
nuclear spin-latticerelaxation
(1 +!k!k!
EkEk!)
Hebel and Slichter, Phys Rev ’57 and ‘59
! 2
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• The BCS theory yielded a second-order phase transition
• a temperature dependent energy gap
• specific heat C(T), critical field and the penetration depth
• the Meissner effect ( in a transverse field)
• matrix element coherence factors for calculating transport properties
!(T )Hc(T )
!(T )
BCS THEORY
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Conclusion“Although our calculations are based on a rather idealized model, they give a good account of the equilibrium properties of superconductors. ... This quantitative agreement as well as the fact that we can account for the main features of superconductivity is convincing evidence that our model is essential correct.”
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1959 L.Gor’kov showed how the Ginzburg-Landauequations followed from the BCS theory.
!(x) ! "(x) e! = 2e
1962 B. Josephson
I = I1sin(!) ! = 2eV/!.
G. M. Eliashberg theory of strong-coupling superconductors
I. Giaever single-particle electron tunneling measurement of the gap.
1960
1960
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John Bardeen Leon N. Cooper J. Robert Schrieffer
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
“for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"
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Google: BCS Theory of Superconductivity 407,000
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Google: BCS Theory of Superconductivity 407,000
: BCS Football 1,230,000
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A.B. Pippard-- Concluding remarks Colgate Conference onSuperconductivity 1963
“The dominant impression has been the overwhelmingsuccess of the BCS theory not only in explaining whatwas known about superconductivity but in providing aframework for new developments.”
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A.B. Pippard-- Concluding remarks Colgate Conference onSuperconductivity 1963
However I would ask several questions:
1. Are phonon interactions the only interactions that can cause superconductivity?
2. How high can Tc go?
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The BCS theory provided an explanation of the superconductivity:
Cs3C60fullerenes
MgB2Nb3Gethousands of compounds
LiPbHg S~ 50 elements CaNb
graphite intercalation compounds CaC6
electron-phonon superconductors
s-wave
Impact in Condensed Matter
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heavy fermion
Y Ba2Cu3O7!x~50 cuprates
PuCoGa5CePt3Si
Sr2RuO4ruthenates -wave(px + ipy)
+ +
_
_
d-wave
Non s-wave superconductivity
Superfluid He3 (p-wave)
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Bednorz and Muller
Chu and Wu
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1. BCS theory is certainly not limited to s-wave electron-phonon pairing. Nor is it limited tocondensed matter systems as Gordon Baymwill discuss.
2. We do not know how high Tc can go.
To answer Pippard’s questions:
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2.• BCS changed the way we think about
condensed matter physics:
• The BCS many-body wavefunction captured the essence of a new state of matter.
• BCS found an important instability of a fermi liquid and the new non-perturbative state it lead to.
• This theory provided a key example of symmetry breaking and phase transitions in an interacting fermi system.
• It contained the important concept of “off diagonal long range order”.
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It was a model of how experiment and theory would be intertwined in the developing area of “condensed matter physics”.
It would provide the basis whole new areas of condensed matter physics, such as the tunneling “branch” that John Rowell will tell us about.
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Beyond this, as Gordon Baym will tellus, the BCS theory has provided essential new insights and understanding of physics that reaches from nuclei to neutron stars as well as broadly into thecentral problems in particle physics.
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BCS ~ 1961