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Phys. Rev. B 65, 012512 (2001) [4 pages]

Nonadiabatic superconductivity and vertex corrections in uncorrelated systems

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P. Paci1, E. Cappelluti2, C. Grimaldi3, and L. Pietronero2
1Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta,” Universitá di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, ItalyIstituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Unitá di Roma 1, Italy
2Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza,” Piazzale A. Moro, 2, 00185 Roma, ItalyIstituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Unitá di Roma 1, Italy
3École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Département de Microtechnique IPM, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Received 23 April 2001; published 13 December 2001

We investigate the issue of the nonadiabatic superconductivity in uncorrelated systems. A local approximation is employed coherently with the weak dependence on the involved momenta. Our results show that nonadiabatic vertex corrections are never negligible, but lead to a strong suppression of Tc with respect to the conventional theory. This feature is understood in terms of the momentum-frequency dependence of the vertex function. In contrast to strongly correlated systems, where the small q selection probes the positive part of vertex function, vertex corrections in uncorrelated systems are essentially negative resulting in an effective reduction of the superconducting pairing. Our analysis shows that vertex corrections in nonadiabatic regime can never be disregarded independently of the degree of electronic correlation in the system.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.012512
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.65.012512
PACS:
74.20.-z, 63.20.Kr