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Recently, neutron scattering spin echo measurements have provided high resolution data on the temperature dependence of the linewidth $Gamma({bf q},T)$ of acoustic phonons in conventional superconductors Pb and Nb. [P. Aynajian, et al, Science 319, 1509 (2008)]. At low temperatures the merging of the $2Delta(T)$ structure in the linewidth with a peak associated with a low lying $hbaromega_{bf q_{KA}}$ Kohn anomaly suggested a coincidence between $2Delta(0)$ and $hbaromega_{bf q_{KA}}$ in Pb and Nb. Here we carry out a standard BCS calculation of the phonon linewidth to examine its temperature evolution and explore how close $2Delta(0)/hbaromega_{bf q_{KA}}$ must be to unity in order to be consistent with the neutron data.
The momentum and temperature dependence of the lifetimes of acoustic phonons in the elemental superconductors Pb and Nb was determined by resonant spin-echo spectroscopy with neutrons. In both elements, the superconducting energy gap extracted from t
A comparison between the single particle spectrum of the discrete Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) model, used for small superconducting grains, and the spectrum of a paradigmatic model of Single Excitation Superradiance (SES) is presented. They are b
The anomalous high-energy dispersion of the conductance band in the high-Tc superconductor Pb-Bi2212 has been extensively mapped by angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) as a function of excitation energy in the range from 34 to 116 eV. Two distinctiv
We examine experiments on energy gaps in high temperature superconductors (HTSC) in terms of experimental probes that utilize momentum, position, or neither. Experiments on very high quality mechanical tunnel junctions show a sharp energy gap with a
I present the detailed behavior of phonon dispersion curves near momenta which span the electronic Fermi sea in a superconductor. I demonstrate that an anomaly, similar to the metallic Kohn anomaly, exists in a superconductors dispersion curves when