Exchange theory of resistivity saturation
- 15 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 26 (6) , 3479-3482
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.26.3479
Abstract
We suggest that the well-known phenomenon of resistivity saturation in -band metals can be due to the density-of-states anomaly of Altshuler and Aronov. We derive the functional form of the saturation equation and an expression for the saturation resistivity.
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