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No-faster-than-light-signaling implies linear evolutions. A re-derivation
There is a growing interest, both from the theoretical as well as
experimental side, to test the validity of the quantum superposition principle,
and of theories which explicitly violate it by adding nonlinear terms to the
Schr\"odinger equation. We review the original argument elaborated by Gisin
(1989 Helv. Phys. Acta 62 363), which shows that the non-superluminal-signaling
condition implies that the dynamics of the density matrix must be linear. This
places very strong constraints on the permissible modifications of the
Schr\"odinger equation, since they have to give rise, at the statistical level,
to a linear evolution for the density matrix. The derivation is done in a
heuristic way here and is appropriate for the students familiar with the
textbook quantum mechanics and the language of density matrices.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure
Simplified Compute-and-Forward and Its Performance Analysis
The compute-and-forward (CMF) method has shown a great promise as an
innovative approach to exploit interference toward achieving higher network
throughput. The CMF was primarily introduced by means of information theory
tools. While there have been some recent works discussing different aspects of
efficient and practical implementation of CMF, there are still some issues that
are not covered. In this paper, we first introduce a method to decrease the
implementation complexity of the CMF method. We then evaluate the exact outage
probability of our proposed simplified CMF scheme, and hereby provide an upper
bound on the outage probability of the optimum CMF in all SNR values, and a
close approximation of its outage probability in low SNR regimes. We also
evaluate the effect of the channel estimation error (CEE) on the performance of
both optimum and our proposed simplified CMF by simulations. Our simulation
results indicate that the proposed method is more robust against CEE than the
optimum CMF method for the examples considered.Comment: Submitted to IET Communications, 29 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, latex,
The authors are with the Wireless Research Laboratory (WRL), Department of
Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Ira
Degree of Internationalization and Performance: An Analysis of Canadian Banks
The international business literature measures the link between the degree of internationalization (DOI) of a firm's activities and its performance. The results of this literature are mixed. The authors extend the analysis to Canadian bank-level data, but they also take into account the riskiness of each bank's foreign-asset exposure. The results establish a positive, but weak, relationship between DOI and performance--one that is dependent on each bank's risk profile. The authors discuss the policy implications of their analysis.Financial institutions
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