AN OPERATOR-THEORETICAL PROOF FOR THE SECOND-ORDER PHASE TRANSITION IN THE BCS-BOGOLIUBOV MODEL OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Abstract

We show that the transition from a normal conducting state to a superconducting state is a second-order phase transition in the BCS-Bogoliubov model of superconductivity from the viewpoint of operator theory. Here we have no magnetic field. Moreover we obtain the exact and explicit expression for the gap in the specific heat at constant volume at the transition temperature. To this end, we have to differentiate the thermodynamic potential with respect to the temperature twice. Since there is a solution to the BCS-Bogoliubov gap equation in the form of the thermodynamic potential, we have to differentiate the solution with respect to the temperature twice. Therefore, we need to show that the solution to the BCS-Bogoliubov gap equation is differentiable with respect to the temperature twice, as well as its existence and uniqueness. We carry out its proof on the basis of fixed point theorems.