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s-wave superconductivity in the presence of local Coulomb correlations

We derive the superconductiong mean-field equations for an attractive interaction, V, in the s-wave channel when local Coulomb interactions are taken into account for any value of U. Our results show that the Coulomb repulsion is detrimental to the critical temperature, $T_c$, and the order parameter, $Δ(T)$, for values of $U \geq |V|$. Furthermore, our results depend on band filling in a sensible way. In the presence of local correlations, $2Δ(0)/T_c$ differs from the BCS ratio, since Coulomb interactions affect much more the superconducting critical temperature, $T_c$, than the superconducting order parameter, $Δ(T)$. We conclude that the presence of Coulomb interactions play an additional role in the analysis of experimental data, specially in narrow band systems.