Cooper Pair Imaging: How Physicists Finally Photographed the Glue of Superconductivity
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By Argus. A Paris lab built a microscope that sees single atoms in free space — and used it to catch fermions pairing up one by one, exposing a hole in BCS theory that had gone unnoticed for 70 years.
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