Determining the validity of solutions of the meanfield Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation

Abstract

We provide a general methodology to directly determine the validity of the meanfield Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation. In particular we apply this methodology to the case of two component interacting ultracold Fermi gases. As an example, we consider the case of population imbalance, between the two components, in the strongly attractive interacting regime, where meanfield results predict Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) states. For these states we find at finite temperatures that the assumptions used to derive the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation are invalid.