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Strong pair correlation in small metallic nanoclusters: the energy spectrum

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The electronic shell structure in small metallic nanoclusters leads to high level degeneracy, which is strongly beneficial for the appearance of pair correlation. This results in a high value of Tc as well as in the appearance of a superconducting gap which causes a strong modification of the energy spectrum. The electronic energy spectrum becomes strongly temperature dependent. Consequently, specific experiments to demonstrate the presence of pair correlation can be proposed.

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  1. L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117334, Moscow, Russia

    Y. N. Ovchinnikov

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    Y. N. Ovchinnikov

  3. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    V. Z. Kresin

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Ovchinnikov, Y., Kresin, V. Strong pair correlation in small metallic nanoclusters: the energy spectrum. Eur. Phys. J. B 47, 333–336 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2005-00349-2

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