A simple model of a boson-fermion mixture of unpaired fermions plus li
near-dispersion-relation Cooper pairs that includes pair-breaking effe
cts leads to Bose-Einstein condensation for dimensions greater than un
ity, at critical temperatures substantially greater than those of the
BCS theory of superconductivity, for the same BCS model interaction be
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