Orbital magnetism in the half-metallic Heusler alloys

Using the fully-relativistic screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method I study the orbital magnetism in the half-metallic Heusler alloys. Orbital moments are almost completely quenched and they are negligible with respect to the spin moments. The change in the atomic-resolved orbital moments can be easily explained in terms of the spin-orbit strength and hybridization effects. Finally I discuss the orbital and spin moments derived from X-ray magnetic circular dichroism experiments

Spectral leakage suppression properties of linear and quadratic windowing

Journal ArticleAbstract-It is shown that the leakage suppression properties of segment averaging spectrum estimation methods using hear windows and equivalent quadratic windows are asymptotically the same, under the assumption that segments relatively far apart are uncorrelated. Thus, for large data lengths, one can effectively replace linear windowing by its equivalent quadratic windowing and hope to get similar leakage suppression at a substantially reduced computational cost. A simulation example that supports this conclusion is presented

An efficient algorithm for lattice filter/predictor

Journal ArticleABSTRACT An efficient method for updating the lattice filter/predictor coefficients using the sign algorithm is introduced. The pertinent coefficients are updated using only the signs of the estimation errors at each stage. This method requires less number of multiplications than other adaptive lattice filter algorithms. The performance of this method is compared with that of the lattice filter using the LMS algorithm for the problems of spectrum estimation and adaptive interference cancellation

Adaptive realizations of the phase transform for time delay estimation

Journal ArticleABSTRACT This paper introduces two recursive realizations of the Phase Transforn (PHAT) processor for tine delay estimation (TOE), using a simple one-pole lowpass filter and the least mean square (LMS) adaptive filter, respectively. It is shown that these adaptive methods are very effective in reducing the effect of interfering tonals. The performances of these methods are compared with those of other existing adaptive TOE algorithms via computer simulations

Adaptive realizations of the maximum likelihood processor for time delay estimation

Journal ArticleAbstract-This correspondence introduces an adaptive realization of the maximum likelihood (ML) processor for time delay estimation (TDE). Also presented is a modified ML processor, which requires less computations but still performs better than the other when implemented in an adaptive way. Widrow's least mean square (LMS) adaptive filter algorithm is used to implement the two methods. Simulation results comparing these processors with other existing adaptive TDE algorithms are also presented

Adaptive nonlinear digital filter with sequential regression algorithm

Journal ArticleThe purpose of this paper is to introduce an adaptive nonlinear digital filtering algorithm which use the sequential regression (SER) method to update the second order Volterra filter coefficients in a recursive way. Conventionally, the SER method has been used to invert large matrices which result from direct application of the Wiener filter large matrices which result from direct application of the Wiener filter theory to the Volterra filter. However, the algorithm proposed in this paper adopts the simplified least squares solution that results when the input signals are Gaussian, and hence the size of the matrix to be inverted in smaller than that of the conventional approaches. Simulation results are also included to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm