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Free Energy Approach to the Formation of an Icosahedral Structure during the Freezing of Gold Nanoclusters
The freezing of metal nanoclusters such as gold, silver, and copper exhibits
a novel structural evolution. The formation of the icosahedral (Ih) structure
is dominant despite its energetic metastability. This important phenomenon,
hitherto not understood, is studied by calculating free energies of gold
nanoclusters. The structural transition barriers have been determined by using
the umbrella sampling technique combined with molecular dynamics simulations.
Our calculations show that the formation of Ih gold nanoclusters is attributed
to the lower free energy barrier from the liquid to the Ih phases compared to
the barrier from the liquid to the face-centered-cubic crystal phases
Multi-group linear turbo equalization with intercell interference cancellation for MC-CDMA cellular systems.
In this paper, we investigate multi-group linear turbo equalization using single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) techniques to mitigate the intercell interference for multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) cellular systems. It is important for the mobile station to mitigate the intercell interference as the performance of the users close to cell edge is mainly degraded by the intercell interference. The complexity of the proposed iterative detector and receiver is low as the one-tap minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer is employed for mitigating the intracell interference, while a simple group interference canceller is used for suppressing the intercell interference. Simulation results show that the proposed iterative detector and receiver can mitigate the intercell interference effectively through iterations for both uncoded and coded signals
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