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Evidence for Two Current Conduction in Iron

Materials Science 2007-11-29 v1

Abstract

Measurements of resistivities of dilute iron based alloys show strong deviations from Matthiessen's rule. These deviations can be explained by a model in which spin up and spin down electrons conduct in parallel. The results are consistent with the theory of impurity shielding in these alloys. [This 1967 paper provides the first experimental demonstration of two current conduction at low temperatures in a ferromagnetic metal. One direct consequence of this property is the Giant Magnetoresistance discovered in 1988 by the groups of Albert Fert and of Peter Gr\"unberg].

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@article{arxiv.0711.4478,
  title  = {Evidence for Two Current Conduction in Iron},
  author = {I. A. Campbell and A. Fert and A. R. Pomeroy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4478},
  year   = {2007}
}
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