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Differential Diversity Reception of MDPSK over Independent Rayleigh Channels with Nonidentical Branch Statistics and Asymmetric Fading Spectrum
This paper is concerned with optimum diversity receiver structure and its
performance analysis of differential phase shift keying (DPSK) with
differential detection over nonselective, independent, nonidentically
distributed, Rayleigh fading channels. The fading process in each branch is
assumed to have an arbitrary Doppler spectrum with arbitrary Doppler bandwidth,
but to have distinct, asymmetric fading power spectral density characteristic.
Using 8-DPSK as an example, the average bit error probability (BEP) of the
optimum diversity receiver is obtained by calculating the BEP for each of the
three individual bits. The BEP results derived are given in exact, explicit,
closed-form expressions which show clearly the behavior of the performance as a
function of various system parameters.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, to present at ISIT200
Electronic structure near an impurity and terrace on the surface of a 3-dimensional topological insulator
Motivated by recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on surfaces of
BiSb\cite{yazdanistm,gomesstm} and
BiTe,\cite{kaptunikstm,xuestm} we theoretically study the electronic
structure of a 3-dimensional (3D) topological insulator in the presence of a
local impurity or a domain wall on its surface using a 3D lattice model. While
the local density of states (LDOS) oscillates significantly in space at
energies above the bulk gap, the oscillation due to the in-gap surface Dirac
fermions are very weak. The extracted modulation wave number as a function of
energy satisfies the Dirac dispersion for in-gap energies and follows the
border of the bulk continuum above the bulk gap. We have also examined
analytically the effects of the defects by using a pure Dirac fermion model for
the surface states and found that the LDOS decays asymptotically faster at
least by a factor of 1/r than that in normal metals, consistent with the
results obtained from our lattice model.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
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