Beilstein Arch. 2025, 202560. https://doi.org/10.3762/bxiv.2025.60.v1
Published 30 Oct 2025
It is well-known that the Hartree-Fock (HF) interaction does not alter observables in conventional superconductors, as its effect is mainly reduced to a chemical potential shift. Deviations from this behavior can only arise in situations of translational symmetry breaking, such as caused by the presence of external fields that induce spatial variations of the order parameter and electron density. We demonstrate that this scenario changes fundamentally in quasicrystalline systems, where the intrinsic lack of translational symmetry leads to a fractal spatial distribution of the superconducting condensate and electron density. By investigating a Fibonacci chain as a prototype quasicrystal, we numerically solve the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations and show that beyond the half-filling, the HF potential significantly enhances the self-similar spatial oscillations of the order parameter while simultaneously reducing its average value and altering its critical exponent. Consequently, the critical temperature is suppressed; for our chosen microscopic parameters, this suppression can reach up to $20\%$. Therefore, an accurate analysis of condensate distribution and related quantities in quasicrystalline superconductors requires the comparison of results obtained with and without the HF interaction.
Keywords: Quasicrystal; fractal superconductivity; Fibonacci chain; Hartree-Fock interaction
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Nikonov, E.; Chen, Y.; Doria, M.; Shanenko, A. Beilstein Arch. 2025, 202560. doi:10.3762/bxiv.2025.60.v1
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