Cooper pair
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pair of electrons or other fermions bound together at low temperature allowing for superconductivity
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- physical phenomenon
- Subclass of
- boson
- Has part
- fermion
- Named after
- Leon Cooper
- Image
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- discoverer or inventor
- Leon Cooper
- time of discovery or invention
- 1956-00-00
- theorized by
- Leon Cooper
- electric charge
- -2
- spin quantum number
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
In condensed matter physics, a Cooper pair or BCS pair (Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer pair) is a pair of electrons (or other fermions) bound together at low temperatures in a certain manner first described in 1956 by American physicist Leon Cooper. The Cooper pairing of electrons in certain materials at low temperatures is responsible for the phenomenon of superconductivity.
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