Parity Effect in a Small Superconducting Particle
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چکیده
Matveev and Larkin calculated the parity effect on the ground state energy of a small superconducting particle in the regimes where the mean level spacing δ is either large or small compared to the bulk gap ∆. We perform a numerical calculation which extends their results to intermediate values of δ/∆.
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