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Cooper pair (iou)



Cooper pair noun phr. M20.
[L. N. Cooper (b. 1930), US physicist.]
A loosely bound pair of electrons with opposite spins and moving with the same speed in opposite directions, held to be responsible for the phenomenon of superconductivity; a similar bound pair of atoms in a superfluid.