Retardation effects and the Coulomb pseudopotential in the theory of superconductivity

Abstract

In the theory of electron-phonon superconductivity both the magnitude of the electron-phonon coupling $\lambda$ as well as the Coulomb pseudopotential ${\mu }^{\ast }$ are important to determine the transition temperature $T_c$ and other properties. We calculate corrections to the conventional result for the Coulomb pseudopotential. Our calculation are based on the Hubbard-Holstein model, where electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions are local. We develop a perturbation expansion, which accounts for the important renormalization effects for the electrons, the phonons, and the electron-phonon vertex. We show that retardation effects are still operative for higher order corrections, but less efficient due to a reduction of the effective bandwidth. This can lead to larger values of the pseudopotential and reduced values of $T_c$. The conclusions from the perturbative calculations are corroborated up to intermediate couplings by comparison with non-perturbative dynamical mean-field results.

24 pages, 19 figures

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