Fixed-N Superconductivity: The Crossover from the Bulk to the Few-Electron Limit

Abstract

We present a truly canonical theory of superconductivity in ultrasmall metallic grains by variationally optimizing fixed-N projected BCS wave-functions, which yields the first full description of the entire crossover from the bulk BCS regime (mean level spacing $d\ll$ bulk gap $\tilde{\Delta }$) to the ``fluctuation-dominated'' few-electron regime ($d\gg \tilde{\Delta }$). A wave-function analysis shows in detail how the BCS limit is recovered for $d\ll \tilde{\Delta }$, and how for $d\gg \tilde{\Delta }$ pairing correlations become delocalized in energy space. An earlier grand-canonical prediction for an observable parity effect in the spectral gaps is found to survive the fixed-N projection.

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