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Band structure and Fermi surface calculations were performed for the metal mercury, for which superconductivity was discovered 87 years ago. The electronic properties of mercury were analyzed to find the origin of singlet electron pair formation and condensation which leads to superconductivity.
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Deng et al. (1998) studied this question.
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