Watching Cooper Pairs Unpair
When a Cooper pair of electrons moves from a superconducting material
(lavender) and sent into normally-conducting metal wires (orange), the
pair can be split up. A recent experiment studies how one electron can
be sent down each of two wires, providing the wire spacing is less than
the effective size of the Cooper Pair.
Reported by: Beckmann et al., Physical
Review Letters, 5 November 2004
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