Even-Odd and Super-Even Effects in the Attractive Hubbard Model

Details Even-Odd and Super-Even Effects in the Attractive Hubbard Model Even-Odd and Super-Even Effects in the Attractive Hubbard Model

1999-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9902173v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

20 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.60.3508

The canonical BCS wave function is tested for the attractive Hubbard model. Results are presented for one dimension, and are compared with the exact solutions by the Bethe ansatz and the results from the conventional grand canonical BCS approximation, for various chain lengths, electron densities, and coupling strengths. While the exact ground state energies are reproduced very well both by the canonical and grand canonical BCS approximations, the canonical method significantly improves the energy gaps for small systems and weak coupling. The ``parity'' effect due to the number of electrons being even or odd naturally emerges in our canonical results. Furthermore, we find a ``super-even'' effect: the energy gap oscillates as a function of even electron number, depending on whether the number of electrons is $4 m$ or $4 m + 2$ (m integer). Such oscillations as a function of electron number should be observable with tunneling measurements in ultrasmall metallic grains.

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