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The localization effects of disordered metals are due to quantum interferences between conduction electron waves scattered by a random potential. The coherence length of the electron waves is fixed by the inelastic scattering processes and amounts to few hundred A in metallic glasses at 4.2 K. An applied magnetic field gives rise to a magnetoresistance due to the reduction of the coherence length in the direction perpendicular to the field.
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Broto, J.M. (1988). Localization Effects in Multilayers of Metallic Glasses. In: Dhez, P., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Physics, Fabrication, and Applications of Multilayered Structures. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0091-6_37
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