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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pair of electrons in a superconducting material that are weakly attracted and bound to each other by their interactions with the lattice, despite their electrostatic repulsion.
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- noun physics a pair of
electrons , of oppositespin , that are thought to be the basis ofsuperconductivity according to BCS theory
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Leon Cooper.]
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for Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist
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