Electron 'pairing': Triplet superconductivity proven experientially for first time

Electron 'pairing': Triplet superconductivity proven experientially for first time: "Cooper pairs cannot continue to exist in a singlet state in a ferromagnetic material. Researches at RUB (Prof. Konstantin Efetov, Solid State Physics) among others have, however, theoretically predicted a new type of Cooper pair, which has a better chance of survival in ferromagnetic materials. In such Cooper pairs the electrons spin in parallel with one another so that they have a finite spin with a value of 1. Since this angular momentum can have three orientations in space, it is also known as the triplet state. 'Obviously there can also be only one certain, small fraction of Cooper pairs in a triplet state, which then quickly revert to the singlet state' explained Prof. Kurt Westerholt. 'The challenge was to verify these triplet Cooper pairs experimentally'."