Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 337 2 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Put and use the same . With a symmetric cutoff , the BCS gap equation becomesThe frequency integral is , soThusThe gap and the one-loop strong-coupling scale have the same nonperturbative exponential dependence; their order-one prefactors depend on the cutoff convention and microscopic completion. The renormalization-group divergence is therefore the normal-state signal of the paired, gapped phase found from the self-consistent gap equation.