Cooper pair

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In condensed matter physics, a Cooper pair or Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) 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.

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