Residual electrical resistivity of dilute nickel alloys

A quantitative calculation of the residual electrical resistivity of dilute ferromagnetic nickel-based alloys has been performed in the framework of the four-current conduction model using the kinetic equation and ab initio approaches for and ab initio approaches for the determination of the scattering potential. The contributions to the residual electrical resistivity from scattering by inhomogeneities of the impurity Coulomb potential and the exchange interaction have been separated by comparing the calculated and experimental data.