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Leon Cooper showed that a filled Fermi sea changes the physics of electron pairing. In the idealized problem, even a weak attractive interaction in an energy shell above the Fermi surface can produce a bound pair. The result concerns electrons in the presence of the filled sea, so it is not simply the problem of two isolated electrons in empty space. This instability supplied a key microscopic ingredient for BCS theory and the Cooper pair description of superconductivity.[ref]
Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas by Leon Neil Cooper. Physical Review 104, 1189 (1956), bound-pair problem above a degenerate sea
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Professional profile of Leon Neil Cooper. Independent professional profile
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