https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-00100-0
Particle-hole mixing driven by the superconducting fluctuations
Institute of Physics, M. Curie Skłodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Corresponding author: doman@kft.umcs.lublin.pl
Received:
14
August
2009
Revised:
17
December
2009
Published online:
18
March
2010
Development of the STM and ARPES spectroscopy enabled to reach the resolution sufficient for probing the particle-hole entanglement in superconducting materials, even above the critical temperature Tc. On a quantitative level one can characterize such entanglement in terms of the Bogoliubov angle which determines to what extent the particles and holes constitute the effective quasiparticles. In classical superconductors, where the phase transition is related to formation of the Cooper pairs almost simultaneously accompanied by onset of their long-range phase coherence, the Bogoliubov angle is slanted (due to finite particle-hole mixing) all the way up to Tc. In the high temperature superconductors and in superfluid ultracold fermion atoms near the Feshbach resonance the situation is different because the preformed pairs can exist above Tc albeit loosing coherence due to the strong quantum fluctuations. We discuss a generic temperature dependence of the Bogoliubov angle in such pseudogap state indicating a novel, non-BCS behavior. For analysis we use the two-component model describing the pairs coexisting with single fermions and study selfconsistently their feedback effects by the similarity transformation originating from the renormalization group approach.
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