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Superconducting transition temperature of the Bose one-component plasma

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Abstract

We present results of first principle numerical simulations of the Bose one-component plasma, i.e., a Bose gas with pairwise Coulomb interactions among particles and a uniform neutralizing background. We compute the superconducting transition temperature for a wide range of densities, in two and three dimensions, for both continuous and lattice versions of the model. Our results are of direct relevance to quantitative studies of bipolaron mechanisms of (high-temperature) superconductivity and indicate that the effect of the Coulomb interactions on Tc proves remarkably modest even at large rs, when the system is close to the Wigner crystal phase.

Publication: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.

Presenters

  • Nikolay Prokof'ev

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

Authors

  • Nikolay Prokof'ev

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Boris Svistunov

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone

    Clark University

  • Chao Zhang

    East China Normal university

  • Massimo Boninsegni

    Univ of Alberta