Jo. Fjaerestad et al., SEMICLASSICAL SCATTERING-THEORY OF PARALLEL TRANSPORT IN METALLIC MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS, Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials, 156(1-3), 1996, pp. 387-388
The parallel (CIP) conductance of magnetic multilayers is calculated i
n the scattering formalism of transport. Geometric and spin-independen
t ('parasitic') CIP conductance channels are identified in the paralle
l configuration. The dominance of these channels in bulk systems is an
artifact of the semiclassical method employed.