$q$-deformed Fermion in Many-Particle Systems and Its Application to BCS Theory

TL;DR

This paper develops a $q$-deformed BCS theory for many-particle fermionic systems, revealing new phases and thermodynamic properties by deforming quantum algebra and extending finite temperature Green's function formalism.

Contribution

It introduces a $q$-deformed BCS theory based on quantum algebra deformation, providing new insights into superconductor phases and thermodynamics.

Findings

Prediction of a Sarma-like ordered phase at low temperature

Symmetric phase diagram in the deformation parameter space

New thermodynamic relations for $q$-deformed systems

Abstract

In recent decades, there have been increasing interests in quantum statistics beyond the standard Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, such as the fractional statistics, quon statistics, anyon statistics and quantum groups, since they can provide some new insights into the cosmology, nuclear physics and condensed matter. In this paper, we study the many-particle system formed by the $q$-deformed fermions ($q$-fermion), which is realized by deforming the quantum algebra of the anticommutation relations. We investigate from a standard perspective of the finite temperature field theory and try to construct the finite temperature Green's function formalism for the free many-$q$-fermion system, then generalize it to the well known interacting fermionic system, the superconductor, and finally obtain a consistent $q$-deformed BCS ($q$BCS) theory. At low temperature, this theory predicts a Sarma-like ordered phase, and we call it the $q$-deformed Sarma phase. It also presents a symmetric phase diagram in the parameter space and new thermodynamic relations.