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Conductance spectra of metallic nanotube bundles
We report a first principles analysis of electronic transport characteristics
for (n,n) carbon nanotube bundles. When n is not a multiple of 3, inter-tube
coupling causes universal conductance suppression near Fermi level regardless
of the rotational arrangement of individual tubes. However, when n is a
multiple of 3, the bundles exhibit a diversified conductance dependence on the
orientation details of the constituent tubes. The total energy of the bundle is
also sensitive to the orientation arrangement only when n is a multiple of 3.
All the transport properties and band structures can be well understood from
the symmetry consideration of whether the rotational symmetry of the individual
tubes is commensurate with that of the bundle
Subcarrier Index Coordinate Expression (SICE): An Ultra-low-power OFDM-compatible Wireless Communications Scheme Tailored for Internet of Things
This paper describes a novel data modulation method for ultra-low-power wireless uplink communication between a client device of the internet of things (IoT) and a base station (or an access point). The proposed scheme is dubbed as subcarrier index coordinate expression (SICE), which utilizes the indices of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers and waveforms with different phase shifts to represent the information to be sent. SICE is targeted for IoT applications with low data rate requirements, and is especially useful for battery-powered IoT devices demanding low-power communications, due to its characteristics of low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and high power efficiency in wireless transmission. Unlike ongoing efforts in IoT wireless communications at standardization organizations which focus on simplifying functionalities of the existing protocols to save power, the technique developed in this paper is a fundamentally new and yet OFDM-compatible physical-layer approach that can drastically reduce power consumption of data transmission.Engineering and Applied Science
Influence of tensor interactions on masses and decay widths of dibaryons
The influence of gluon and Goldstone boson induced tensor interactions on the
dibaryon masses and D-wave decay widths has been studied in the quark
delocalization, color screening model. The effective S-D wave transition
interactions induced by gluon and Goldstone boson exchanges decrease rapidly
with increasing strangeness of the channel. The tensor contribution of K and
mesons is negligible in this model. There is no six-quark state in the
light flavor world studied so far that can become bound by means of these
tensor interactions besides the deuteron. The partial D-wave decay widths of
the N state to spin 0 and 1 final states
are 12.0 keV and 21.9 keV respectively. This is a very narrow dibaryon
resonance that might be detectable in relativistic heavy ion reactions by
existing RHIC detectors through the reconstruction of the vertex mass of the
decay product and by the COMPAS detector at CERN or at JHF in
Japan and the FAIR project in Germany in the future.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure
Origin of the different conductive behavior in pentavalent-ion-doped anatase and rutile TiO
The electronic properties of pentavalent-ion (Nb, Ta, and
I) doped anatase and rutile TiO are studied using spin-polarized
GGA+\emph{U} calculations. Our calculated results indicate that these two
phases of TiO exhibit different conductive behavior upon doping. For doped
anatase TiO, some up-spin-polarized Ti 3\emph{d} states lie near the
conduction band bottom and cross the Fermi level, showing an \emph{n}-type
half-metallic character. For doped rutile TiO, the Fermi level is pinned
between two up-spin-polarized Ti 3\emph{d} gap states, showing an insulating
character. These results can account well for the experimental different
electronic transport properties in Nb (Ta)-doped anatase and rutile TiO.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Compressive Sensing Based Channel Feedback Protocols for Spatially-Correlated Massive Antenna Arrays
Incorporating wireless transceivers with numerous antennas (such as Massive-MIMO) is a prospective way to increase the link capacity or enhance the energy efficiency of future communication systems. However, the benefits of such approach can be realized only when proper channel information is available at the transmitter. Since the amount of the channel information required by the transmitter is large with so many antennas, the feedback is arduous in practice, especially for frequency division duplexing (FDD) systems. This paper proposes channel feedback reduction techniques based on the theory of compressive sensing, which permits the transmitter to obtain channel information with acceptable accuracy under substantially reduced feedback load. Furthermore, by leveraging properties of compressive sensing, we present two adaptive feedback protocols, in which the feedback content can be dynamically configured based on channel conditions to improve the efficiency.Engineering and Applied Science
Composite vortex model of the electrodynamics of high- superconductor
We propose a phenomenological model of vortex dynamics in which the vortex is
taken as a composite object made of two components: the vortex current which is
massless and driven by the Lorentz force, and the vortex core which is massive
and driven by the Magnus force. By combining the characteristics of the
Gittleman-Rosenblum model (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 16}, 734 (1966)) and Hsu's
theory of vortex dynamics (Physica {\bf C 213},305 (1993)), the model provides
a good description of recent far infrared measurements of the
magneto-conductivity tensor of superconducting YBaCuO
films from 5 cm to 200 cm.Comment: LaTex file (12 pages) + 3 Postscript figures, uuencoded. More
information on this paper, please check
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~lihn/newmodel
The Evolution of Diffuse Radio Sources in Galaxy Clusters
We investigate the evolution and number distribution of radio halos in galaxy
clusters. Without re-acceleration or regeneration, the relativistic electrons
responsible for the diffuse radio emission will lose their energy via
inverse-Compton and synchrotron losses in a rather short time, and radio halos
will have lifetimes 0.1 Gyr. Radio halos could last for Gyr if a
significant level of re-acceleration is involved. The lifetimes of radio halos
would be comparable with the cosmological time if the radio-emitting electrons
are mainly the secondary electrons generated by pion decay following
proton-proton collisions between cosmic-ray protons and the thermal
intra-cluster medium within the galaxy clusters. Adopting both observational
and theoretical constraints for the formation of radio halos, we calculate the
formation rates and the comoving number density of radio halos in the
hierarchical clustering scheme. Comparing with observations, we find that the
lifetimes of radio halos are Gyr. Our results indicate that a
significant level of re-acceleration is necessary for the observed radio halos
and the secondary electrons may not be a dominant origin for radio halos.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figures, ApJ, in press (v2:Corrected typos.
The d* dibaryon in the extended quark-delocalization, color-screening model
The quark-delocalization, color-screening model, extended by inclusion of a
one-pion-exchange (OPE) tail, is applied to the study of the deuteron and the
d* dibaryon. The results show that the properties of the deuteron (an extended
object) are well reproduced, greatly improving the agreement with experimental
data as compared to our previous study (without OPE). At the same time, the
mass and decay width of the d* (a compact object) are, as expected, not altered
significantly.Comment: 9 pages, no figures, LaTeX, subm. to Phys. Rev.
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