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From ancient Greek philosopher Plato to Neo, hero of the dystopian film fantasy The Matrix, humans have long pondered the true nature of reality. Can we trust what we see, taste, touch, smell, and ...

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The interplay of non-Hermitian physics and open quantum dynamics has been fruitful in ultracold atoms. Expanding on previous demonstrations of controlled dissipation, the authors demonstrate here gain ...

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Abstract: We apply the innovations method to Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes. First, we calculate the covariance matrix of the innovation (i.e., the soft-decision input to the main decoder in ...

Abstract: In 6G broadcasting, there is an urgent need of a high-performance short-length channel code for hyper-reliable and low-latency communications (HRLLC). Among the available options, cyclic ...

This repository contains a Python script to simulate the performance of bit-level concatenated codes over IDS channels with a BCJR-based estimator. The script evaluates the performance of the decoder ...