Basic variables to be reproduced in the first-principles theory for superconductors: Fluctuation of the particle number

Abstract

We show that the diagonal elements of the second-order reduced density matrix (RDM2) can be chosen as basic variables for describing the superconducting state, instead of the off-diagonal elements of the RDM2 that are usually adopted as basic variables in the density functional scheme. The diagonal elements of the RDM2 are called pair-density (PD), which is explicitly related to the fluctuation of the particle number of the system. In this paper, we argue that the fluctuation of the particle number can become an indication of the superconducting state, and that the density functional scheme in which the PD is chosen as a basic variable would be a promising first-principles theory for superconductors.

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