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Very simple derivations are used to reemphasize the fact that the binding energy of a Cooper pair in the standard BCS treatment of superconductivity is indeed proportional to the critical temperature, and not exponentially different from it as found in many sources in the literature.
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Aguilera-Navarro, V.C., de Llano, M., Plastino, A. (1991). Cooper Pair Binding Energy and the BCS Gap Energy Revisited. In: Fantoni, S., Rosati, S. (eds) Condensed Matter Theories. Condensed Matter Theories, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3686-4_18
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