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Record 1 2020-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Conductivity and Superconductivity (Electricity)
DEF

[A] pair of electrons in a superconductor that are attractively bound and have equal and opposite momentum and spin.

CONT

The behavior of superconductors suggests that electron pairs are coupling over a range of hundreds of nanometers, three orders of magnitude larger than the lattice spacing. Called Cooper pairs, these coupled electrons can take the character of a boson and condense into the ground state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conductivité et supraconductivité (Électricité)
CONT

Elle suppose que les électrons, des fermions de spin ½, se combinent pour donner des paires de Cooper, sortes de quasi-particules [...] qui se comportent comme des bosons [...]

Spanish

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