Nambu identity and collective modes in superconductors and superfluid $^3$He

TL;DR

This paper explores collective modes in superconductors and superfluid helium-3, demonstrating that their masses satisfy the Nambu identity, linking them to the energy gap parameter.

Contribution

It shows that collective modes in superconductors and superfluid helium-3 obey the Nambu identity, unifying their theoretical description.

Findings

Collective modes in NbN and InO oscillate at twice the energy gap frequency.

Superfluid helium-3 B-phase has two massive collective modes with specific mass ratios.

Both cases satisfy the Nambu identity relating mode masses to the energy gap.

Abstract

Collective modes manifest themselves in a variety of different physical systems ranging from superconductors to superfluid $^{3}$He. The collective modes are generated via the Higgs-Anderson mechanism that is based on the symmetry breaking double well potential. Recently collective modes were explored in superconducting NbN and InO in the presence of a strong terahertz laser field. In both cases a single collective mode that oscillates with twice the frequency of the superconducting energy gap $\Delta$ was discovered. Superfluid $^{3}$He is the host for a whole variety of collective modes. In particular, in the superfluid $^{3}$He B-phase, two massive collective modes were found with masses $\sqrt{{8}/{5}}\Delta$ and $\sqrt{{12}/{5}}\Delta$. We show that for both cases of the superconducting films and for the superfluid $^{3}$He B-phase, the collective modes satisfy the Nambu identity that relates the masses of different collective modes to the energy gap parameter $\Delta$.

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