Two-Cooper-pair problem and the Pauli exclusion principle

Details Two-Cooper-pair problem and the Pauli exclusion principle Two-Cooper-pair problem and the Pauli exclusion principle

2009-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/0911.1688v3

Phys. Rev. B 81, 174514 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, no figures, final version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.174514

While the one-Cooper pair problem is now a textbook exercise, the energy of two pairs of electrons with opposite spins and zero total momentum has not been derived yet, the exact handling of Pauli blocking between bound pairs being not that easy for N=2 already. The two-Cooper pair problem however is quite enlightening to understand the very peculiar role played by the Pauli exclusion principle in superconductivity. Pauli blocking is known to drive the change from 1 to $N$ pairs, but no precise description of this continuous change has been given so far. Using Richardson procedure, we here show that Pauli blocking increases the free part of the two-pair ground state energy, but decreases the binding part when compared to two isolated pairs - the excitation gap to break a pair however increasing from one to two pairs. When extrapolated to the dense BCS regime, the decrease of the pair binding while the gap increases strongly indicates that, at odd with common belief, the average pair binding energy cannot be of the order of the gap.

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