Each Cooper pair, having integer spin, can be thought of as a boson.
However, with doping, these electrons can act as mobile Cooper pairs and are able to superconduct.
So in order to have superconductivity, the electrons need to somehow bind into Cooper pairs.
This means that now electrons would be responsible for creating the Cooper pairs instead of ions.
The phonons cause attractive interactions between some electrons, causing them to form Cooper pairs.
The first is from the tunneling of Cooper pairs.
In superinsulators the Cooper pairs avoid each other, preventing current from flowing.
So only at low temperatures are a significant number of the electrons in a metal in Cooper pairs.
It has also been recently demonstrated that a Cooper pair can comprise two bosons.
The theory of Cooper pairs is quite general and does not depend on the specific electron-phonon interaction.
Each Cooper pair, having integer spin, can be thought of as a boson.
However, with doping, these electrons can act as mobile Cooper pairs and are able to superconduct.
So in order to have superconductivity, the electrons need to somehow bind into Cooper pairs.
This means that now electrons would be responsible for creating the Cooper pairs instead of ions.
The phonons cause attractive interactions between some electrons, causing them to form Cooper pairs.
The first is from the tunneling of Cooper pairs.
In superinsulators the Cooper pairs avoid each other, preventing current from flowing.
So only at low temperatures are a significant number of the electrons in a metal in Cooper pairs.
It has also been recently demonstrated that a Cooper pair can comprise two bosons.
The theory of Cooper pairs is quite general and does not depend on the specific electron-phonon interaction.