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We establish that Cooper instability of the ground state of a normal blackbody triggers the attractive photons to form the pairs. We next find that however small the effective interphoton attraction V 0 is, Cooper pairs of photon always exist in the ground state of a Kerr nonlinear blackbody. It has been pointed out that there are the three fundamental properties of the Cooper pair of photon: the extremely large binding energy, the extremely small radius, and the extremely high critical temperature. These properties are reflected in the many-photon bound state described by the optical superfluid theory.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 10174024 and No. 10474025.
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Cheng, Z. Physical Mechanism of Photon Pairing in a Kerr Nonlinear Medium. Int J Theor Phys 56, 1410–1416 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-017-3281-2
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