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Conversely, in systems employing one-bit ADCs, it is exceedingly difficult to eliminate non-orthogonal interference using digital signal processing due to the considerable distortion present in the received signal when employing such ADCs. As a result, the Gaussian MAC does not yield significant capacity gains in such cases. To address this issue, we demonstrate that, under a given deterministic interference, the capacity of a one-bit-quantized channel becomes equivalent to the capacity without interference when an appropriate threshold value is chosen. This finding suggests the potential for indirect interference cancellation in the analog domain, facilitating the proposition of an efficient successive interference cancellation and detection scheme. We analyze the achievable rate of the proposed scheme by deriving the mutual information between the transmitted and received signals at each detection stage. 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