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SUBMITTER: Wu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5473642 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20170223
Superconductivity is a unique manifestation of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale, and one of the rare examples of many-body phenomena that can be explained by predictive, quantitative theories. The superconducting ground state is described as a condensate of Cooper pairs, and a major challenge has been to understand which mechanisms could lead to a bound state between two electrons, despite the large Coulomb repulsion. An even bigger challenge is to identify experimentally this pairing me ...[more]