 Quasi‐Particles, Thermodynamic Consistency, and the Gap EquationEnore Guadagnini Advances in Mathematical Physics, 2017, vol. 2017, issue 1 Abstract: The thermodynamic potentials of superconducting electrons are derived by means of the Bogoliubov‐Valatin formalism. The thermodynamic potentials can be obtained by computing the free energy of a gas of quasi‐particles, whose energy spectrum is conditional on the gap function. However, the nontrivial dependence of the gap on the temperature jeopardises the validity of the standard thermodynamic relations. In this article, it is shown how the thermodynamic consistency (i.e., the validity of the Maxwell relations) is recovered, and the correction terms to the quasi‐particles potentials are computed. It is shown that the Bogoliubov‐Valatin transformation avoids the problem of the thermodynamic consistency of the quasi‐particle approach; in fact, the correct identification of the variables, which are associated with the quasi‐particles, leads to a precise calculation of the quasi‐particles vacuum energy and of the dependence of the chemical potential on the electron density. The stationarity condition for the grand potential coincides with the gap equation, which guarantees the thermodynamic consistency. The expressions of various thermodynamic potentials, as functions of the (T, V, N) variables, are produced in the low temperature limit; as a final check, a rederivation of the condensation energy is presented. Date: 2017 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:jnlamp:v:2017:y:2017:i:1:n:6265427 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Advances in Mathematical Physics from John Wiley & Sons |
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