The Symmetry of Pairing and the Electromagnetic Properties of a Superconductor with a Four-Fermion Attraction at Zero Temperature

Properties of a fermion system at zero temperature are investigated. The physical system is described by a Hamiltonian containing the BCS interaction and an attractive four-fermion interaction. The four-fermion potential is caused by attractions between Cooper pairs mediated by the phonon field. In this paper, the BCS interaction is assumed to be negligible and the four-fermion potential is the only one that acts in the system. The effect of the pairing symmetry used in the four-fermion potential on some zero-temperature properties is studied. This especially concerns the electromagnetic response of the system to an external magnetic field. It turns out that, in this instance, there are serious differences between the conventional BCS system and the one investigated in this paper.