Fluctuating Cooper pairs contribute to the diamagnetic susceptibility in a superconductor above the critical temperature. The effect is the greatest in a clean metal where the extra susceptibility is about 10^-7×[Tc(T-Tc)]1/2 in a bulk sample.
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Albert Schmid (1969) studied this question.
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