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Comments on the theory of superconductivity

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

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Some ideas of the new theory of Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer are expressed in a more transparent form. New collective fermion variables are introduced which are linear combinations of creation and annihilation operators of electrons, and describe elementary excitations. They lead to a simple classification of excited states and a great simplification in the calculations. The structure of the excitation spectrum is investigated without equating the matrix element of the interaction potential to a constant at an early stage, and new relationships and equations are derived. The temperature dependent problem is described by means of a statistical operator, and its relationship to that of the grand canonical ensemble is established. Simple new relationships are obtained for the correlation function.

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Si esprimono in forma più accessibile alcuni significati della nuova teoria di Bardeen, Cooper e Schrieffer. Si introducono nuove variabili fermioniche collettive che sono combinazioni lineari di operatori di creazione e di distruzione di elettroni e descrivono eccitazioni elementari. Essi conducono a una semplioe classificazione degli stati eccitati e a grande semplificazione dei calcoli. Si esamina la struttura dello spettro di eccitazione senza eguagliare dapprincipio a una costante l’elemento di matrice del potenziale d’interazione e si derivano nuove relazioni ed equazioni. Il problema dipendente dalla temperatura si descrive per mezzo di un operatore statistico e si stabilisce la sua relazione con quella del grande insieme canonico. Si ottengono nuove semplici relazioni per la funzione di correlazione.

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Valatin, J.G. Comments on the theory of superconductivity. Nuovo Cim 7, 843–857 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02745589

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