Potential between Cooper pairs

Thread starter unih
Start date May 10, 2012
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May 10, 2012

unih

Hi dear all
If we looking at Cooper pairs as on the particles what is potential between them?

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May 10, 2012

DrDu

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The potential is rather complicated as it depends on the energies and momenta of the electrons (a non-local potential). Maybe this article is useful:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.19945060203/abstract

May 10, 2012

unih

Thank you. WIll take a look

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