See Cooper pair on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Named after American physicist Leon Neil Cooper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Cooper pairs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Cooper pair (plural Cooper pairs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physics",
"orig": "en:Physics",
"parents": [
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Superconductivity",
"orig": "en:Superconductivity",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1991, Werner Buckel, Superconductivity: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley, page 42:",
"text": "The fundamental requirement for superconductivity is the existence of Cooper pairs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Lynne Marie Merchant, Variation of the Superconductor Order Parameter in Quench-condensed Granular Films, University of California, page 8:",
"text": "This is because a superconducting state is composed of extended Cooper pairs. A coherence length, #x5C;xi, describes the extension length of a Cooper pair over which the two quasiparticles remain bound as a pair.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Ludovic Pricoupenko, Hélène Perrin, Maxim Olshanii, Quantum Gases in Low Dimensions, EDP Sciences, page 173:",
"text": "This is a direct macroscopic manifestation of the presence of a condensate of Cooper pairs in a superconductor.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pair of electrons (or other fermions), of opposite spin, whose theorised behaviour is the basis of the BCS theory of superconductivity."
],
"id": "en-Cooper_pair-en-noun-jqNxEcBp",
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"electron",
"electron"
],
[
"fermion",
"fermion"
],
[
"spin",
"spin"
],
[
"superconductivity",
"superconductivity"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics) A pair of electrons (or other fermions), of opposite spin, whose theorised behaviour is the basis of the BCS theory of superconductivity."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "BCS pair"
},
{
"word": "Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer pair"
}
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pair of electrons",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paire de Cooper"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pair of electrons",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Cooper-Paar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pair of electrons",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coppia di Cooper"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Leon Neil Cooper"
]
}
],
"word": "Cooper pair"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Named after American physicist Leon Neil Cooper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Cooper pairs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Cooper pair (plural Cooper pairs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"en:Physics",
"en:Superconductivity"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1991, Werner Buckel, Superconductivity: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley, page 42:",
"text": "The fundamental requirement for superconductivity is the existence of Cooper pairs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Lynne Marie Merchant, Variation of the Superconductor Order Parameter in Quench-condensed Granular Films, University of California, page 8:",
"text": "This is because a superconducting state is composed of extended Cooper pairs. A coherence length, #x5C;xi, describes the extension length of a Cooper pair over which the two quasiparticles remain bound as a pair.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Ludovic Pricoupenko, Hélène Perrin, Maxim Olshanii, Quantum Gases in Low Dimensions, EDP Sciences, page 173:",
"text": "This is a direct macroscopic manifestation of the presence of a condensate of Cooper pairs in a superconductor.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pair of electrons (or other fermions), of opposite spin, whose theorised behaviour is the basis of the BCS theory of superconductivity."
],
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"electron",
"electron"
],
[
"fermion",
"fermion"
],
[
"spin",
"spin"
],
[
"superconductivity",
"superconductivity"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics) A pair of electrons (or other fermions), of opposite spin, whose theorised behaviour is the basis of the BCS theory of superconductivity."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "BCS pair"
},
{
"word": "Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer pair"
}
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Leon Neil Cooper"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pair of electrons",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paire de Cooper"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pair of electrons",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Cooper-Paar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pair of electrons",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "coppia di Cooper"
}
],
"word": "Cooper pair"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Cooper pair meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.