Cooper pair
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In condensed matter physics, a Cooper pair or BCS pair is a pair of electrons bound together at low temperatures in a certain manner first described in 1956 by American physicist Leon Cooper. The Coop
Schematic illustration of the Cooper pairing interaction in BCS superconductors
Leon Cooper
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Leon N. Cooper was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and c
Cooper pair
…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. Cooper showed that…
Cooper in 2007
Plaque at the University of Illinois, commemorating the development of the BCS theory of superconductivity
Cooper with his wife, Kay Allard, in 1972