
What Is A Superconductor?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Importance of Cooper Pairs in Quantum Mechanics
To get down to zero, it took a really clever bit of thinking by theorists. It comes down to a concept called Cooper Pairs. electrons don't go through individually; they gather together into pairs. To understand it, the little bit of quantum mechanics you need to know is just that electrons are a certain kind of particle - fermions.
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