Schemes for the calculation of the free energy and specific heat for marginal Fermi liquids in the normal and superconducting phase

Abstract

Several schemes based on the fermionic many-body approach and the boson-exchange approach are developed to calculate the free energy and specific heat for a marginal Fermi liquid in the normal and superconducting phase. The merits and demerits of these schemes are analyzed and compared. The origin of the failure of the simple Bardeen–Stephen formula is also highlighted. The analysis is carried out in light of some experiments.