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We now explore the question of exactly what happens inside a metal that turns it into a superconductor. Oddly enough, even an engineer who works with superconductors doesn’t really need to know what makes superconductivity happen. If we understand what superconductors can do, then we are ready to start using them. Nonetheless, the microscopic theory of superconductivity developed by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer in 1957 ranks as one of the great achievements of modern science and is well worth exploring.
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© 1988 Randy Simon and Andrew Smith
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Simon, R., Smith, A. (1988). Superconductivity Comes in Pairs. In: Superconductors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6050-4_5
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