Cooper pairing in a soluble one-dimensional many-fermion model

Abstract

The dynamical similarities between the three-dimensional (3D) electron fluid ``jellium'' model and the exactly soluble 1D fermion fluid with attractive \ensuremath{\delta}-function pairwise potentials motivates solving the Cooper-pair problem in this model for all couplings and/or densities. This is accomplished exactly in graphical form. For weak coupling, the essential singularity characteristic of standard 3D low-temperature superconductivity reemerges, and for infinite coupling, BCS theory reproduces the exact ground-state system energy.