Conserved Charge: Superconductor Cooper Pair Fixation

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If the cooper pair phase of a superconductor is fixed. Is there a phase -. particle number uncertainty like in photonics, and as a corollary is there a charge density uncertainty?
 

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Indeed. The BCS ground state is not a number operator eigenstate.