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Yajiang Chen¹, A A Shanenko, A Perali

¹Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium.

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Area of Science:

Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Mechanics

Background:

Quantum confinement in metallic superconducting nanofilms splits electron bands into subbands.
Subband energy levels are sensitive to nanofilm thickness and fabrication details.
A subband's proximity to the Fermi level can drastically alter superconducting properties.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of quantum confinement on superconducting pairing in metallic nanofilms.
To explore the crossover behavior from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in nanoscale superconductors.
To analyze the resulting changes in Cooper pair characteristics.

Main Methods:

Theoretical modeling of quantum confinement effects in single-crystalline metallic nanofilms.
Analysis of subband structure and its relation to the Fermi level.
Investigation of superconducting pairing mechanisms and Cooper pair size.

Main Results:

Quantum confinement leads to molecule-like superconducting pairing trends in specific subbands.
This pairing behavior mimics the BCS-BEC crossover observed in ultracold fermions.
For lead (Pb) nanofilms (4-5 ML), up to 50% of Cooper pairs exhibit reduced lateral size (few nanometers).

Conclusions:

Superconducting nanofilms exhibit a unique nanoscale multi-band superconductivity.
The observed molecule-like pairing represents a significant deviation from conventional superconductivity.
The superconducting condensate becomes a mixture of molecule-like and extended Cooper pairs.