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Cooper pair n (Physics / General Physics) Physics a pair of weakly bound electrons responsible for the transfer of charge in a superconducting material [named after Leon Neil Cooper (born 1930), US physicist]
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| First, the coherent transfer of Cooper pairs is expected to be much faster than the incoherent transfer of unpaired electrons, providing much larger currents with metrological accuracy. Study of such Cooper pairs could shed light on superconductivity, he suggests. Pions, consisting of pairs of quarks, play the same sort of simplifying role as Cooper pairs in superconductivity theory. |
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