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Author:

Balk, Andrew Lee

Title:

Nanoscale magnetization in ferromagnetic thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning probe
semiconductor
spintronics
Hall effect
ferromagnetism
Mn)As
(Ga
domain wall
spin ice
MOKE
cryogenics

File:

Download balkdissfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Amit

Title:

SPIN-CHARGE-LATTICE COUPLING IN MULTIFERROICS AND STRAINED FERROELECTRICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multiferroics
Strained Ferroelectrics
Spin-charge coupling

File:

Download ThesisFinal_Amit.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Cooley, Benjamin Joseph

Title:

Growth, Structure, and Optical Characterization of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

diluted magnetic semiconductor
nanowire
semiconductor nanowire
nanowire growth

File:

Download BCooley-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Kenneth O Hara, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Sheu, Ben-Li

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF III-V FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

ferromagnetism
magnetic semiconductors
spintronics

File:

Download Thesis-Ben-Li_Sheu.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member

Author:

Shi, Chuntai

Title:

Study of correlations in fractional quantum Hall effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

fractional quantum Hall effect
composite fermion

File:

Download Shi_Thesis_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Haohua

Title:

EFFECTS OF DIMENSIONALITY, SAMPLE TOPOLOGY, AND DISORDER ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Global Phase Coherence
Nanowires
Sample Topology Effects
Quantum Phase Transition
Mesoscopic Superconductors
Superconductivity

File:

Download HWang-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jinwu Ye, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Jian

Title:

Polaried Light Scattering from Individual Semiconductor Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Antenna effect
Raman Scattering
Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanowires
Semiconductor Nanowires
Rayleigh Scattering
Stimulated Raman Scattering

File:

Download Wu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Lasse Jenson, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jie

Title:

STUDY OF ARTIFICIAL FRUSTRATED ARRAYS OF SINGLE-DOMAIN FERROMAGNETS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

frustration

File:

Download Jie_Li_Disertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Nelson, Karl D.

Title:

Phase-Sensitive Determination of the Pairing Symmetry in Sr<SUB>2</sub>RuO<SUB>4</sub>

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

odd parity
spin triplet
Sr2RuO4
p-wave
phase-sensitive
unconventional superconductivity

File:

Download sro-pairsym.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Committee Member

Author:

Graham, Kenneth Loran

Title:

Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

strongly correlated electron system
fractional quantum Hall effect
correlation function
composite fermions
Monte Carlo
quantum Monte Carlo
two dimensional electron system

File:

Download KennethLGraham-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Peter C Jurs, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Ku, Keh-Chiang

Title:

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spintronics

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

spintronics
semiconductor heterostructures
molecular beam epitaxy
diluted magnetic semiconductors
spin coherence

File:

Download Ku-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Krystaufeux Dormas

Title:

Transmission Electron Microscopy of ZnSe/CdSe Heterostructure Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

transmission electron microscopy
ZnSe
CdSe
heterostructures
nanowires
molecular beam epitaxy

File:

Download KWilliams_MSThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wilson, Mark Jeffrey

Title:

EXCHANGE AND CRYSTALLINE ORIENTATION STUDIES OF THE III-V FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR (Ga,Mn)As

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gallium manganese arsenide
Mn)As
(Ga
GaMnAs
spintronics
magnetic semiconductor
spin torque
magnetic tunnel junction

File:

Download Mark_Wilson_Thesis_Plus_VITA_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Ying Liu, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Meng

Title:

ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT STUDIES OF MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY GROWN (GA,MN)AS EPILAYERS AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

random telegraph noise
Molecular beam epitaxy
Mn)As
(Ga
Diluted magnetic semiconductor
exchange biasing
tunneling magnetoresistance

File:

Download Meng_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Peihong

Title:

THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS: NOVEL GROUP-IV MATERIALS AND REAL SPACE METHODS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

multigrid
finite element methods
Electronic structure
real-space methods
carbon nanotubes
ab initio
band structure
semiconductor
planewave
pseudopotential

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Lu, Qiujie

Title:

A Raman and Rayleigh Scattering Study of Electrical and Phonon Properties of Semiconducting Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Raman
Rayleigh
Antenna Effect
Hot Tip Effect
FDTD simulation
Semiconducting Nanowire

File:

Download Thesis_LU_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Woodworth, Ryan

Title:

Few-body properties of interacting spins in III-V semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

semiconductor microdisk lasers
spin exchange scattering
charge diffusion
encoded quantum computation

File:

Download RyanWoodworthDissertation2.pdf

Committee Members:

Gerald Dennis Mahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ruifang

Title:

GEOMETRICAL MAGNETIC FRUSTRATION AND DEMAGNETIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL SPIN ICE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

geometrical magnetic frustration
spin ice

File:

Download Thesis_Ruifang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Mookerjea, Saurabh Amitabha

Title:

BAND-TO-BAND TUNNELING FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR FOR LOW POWER LOGIC AND MEMORY APPLICATIONS: DESIGN,FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MILLER CAPACITANCE
HETERO-JUNCTION
HOMO-JUNCTION
TFET
6T SRAM

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kingsuk Maitra, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Sungjun

Title:

Pumping spin, singlet pairs, and light

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum pumping
spintronics
entanglement

File:

Download sungjun_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ari Mizel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Committee Member

Author:

Russin, Timothy John

Title:

Interaction of Light with Dye-Doped Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanoparticles
indocyanine green
local field effect
bioimaging
penetration depth
quantum yield
quantum efficiency
fluorescence

File:

Download thesis-tjr.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Ujjwal

Title:

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POST-TRANSITION, MAIN-GROUP, HETEROATOMIC CLUSTERS USING MASS SPECTROMETRY, ANION PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND VELOCITY MAP IMAGING

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photoelectron spectroscopy metal clusters velocity

File:

Download Ujjwal_Gupta-PhD-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Scarola, Vito William

Title:

Phase Diagram of The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

p-wave pairing
flux quantum
composite fermion
Quantum Hall

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Fadgen, William

Title:

Ferromagnetic and Exchange Bias Studies in the Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mn)As
(Ga
exchange bias
MOKE

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Xiaoming

Title:

BORON DOPING OF SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube
boron doping
conducting films

File:

Download Xiaoming_Liu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xia

Title:

Evanescent Field Coupled Microdisk Cavities

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

photonic molecules
photonics
microdisk
laser
semiconductor
microcavity
cavity quantum electrodynamics

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Hu, Yufeng

Title:

Strain-induced magneto-transport properties of manganite thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

manganite
Strain
low-field
magnetoresistance
anisotropy
magneto-transport

File:

Download Thesis-v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, ZhaoHui

Title:

MATERIALS DESIGN OF SUBSTRATES FOR GAS ADSORPTION AND STORAGE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

hydrogen release kinetics
chemical hydrogen storage
metal aggregation

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member

Author:

Hao, Qingzhen

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Metallic Nanostructures for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Plasmonic Applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanofabrication
SERS
active plasmonics
nanostructures
Fano resonance
Babinet's principle
near-field
far-field

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Qingzhen_Hao_Version_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Dasilva, Ashley Marie

Title:

Transport properties of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Dirac fermions
graphene
topological insulators
transport
two dimensional systems

File:

Download thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Duming

Title:

Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulator
superconductivity
ferromagnetism
proximity effect
Majorana fermions
Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3)
nanoribbon
MBE thin film

File:

Download DumingZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Meenakshi

Title:

Quantum transport in superconducting, ferromagnetic and normal nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
transport
confined geometry
nanowires
anti-proximity effect
proximity effect
ferromagnetic nanowires

File:

Download MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Zou, Ke

Title:

Transport studies of mono-, bi- and tri- layer graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
bilayer graphene
trilayer graphene
transport
dielectrics
band structure

File:

Download KEZOU-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Ying, Yiqun Alex

Title:

Probing the Enhanced Superconductivity and Chiral Edge Current in Spin-triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Sr2RuO4
spin-triplet superconductivity
chiral p-wave
proximity effect
dislocation
Josephson interferometer
chiral edge current

File:

Download YAYING-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Liang, Jing

Title:

Hybrid magnetic/semiconductor nanowires: synthesis and characterization

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

core/shell nanowire
spintronics
AMR effect
catalyst-free

File:

Download Jing-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Matthews, Maria Jane

Title:

Field Dependent Spin Dynamics in Dy2ti2o7

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Spin ice
dynamics
field
dependence
fluctuations

File:

Download MM_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Sheng

Title:

Tuning geometries and interactions of artificial frustrated nanomagnets

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Geometrical frustration
Artificial spin ice
Nanomagnetism

File:

Download Dissertation_Sheng_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Special Member

Author:

Kuo, Meng-wei

Title:

Bottom-up and top-down fabrication of nanowire-based electronic devices: In situ doping of vapor liquid solid grown silicon nanowires and etch-dependent leakage current in InGaAs tunnel junctions

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

nanowire
VLS
InGaAs
tunnel

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_MW_Kuo.pdf

Committee Members:

Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Narayanaswami, Sandeep

Title:

Restricted versions of the two-local Hamiltonian problem

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Hamiltonian complexity
quantum computing
algorithms
QMA

File:

Download SNarayanaswami.diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Weiss, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Member

Author:

Rench, David William

Title:

Investigation of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Devices

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Nanotechnology
magnetic
semiconductors
spintronics
spin
ice
topological
insulator

File:

Download DaveRench_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Liu, Lu

Title:

Classical And Coulomb Blockade Iii-v Multi-gate Quantum Well Field Effect Transistors For Ultra Low Power Logic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

multi-gate
quantum well FET
single electron
Coulomb blockade
non-volatile
low power

File:

Download Dissertation_Lu_Dec22013.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Dai, Wenqing

Title:

Electron Tunneling and Point Contact Andreev Reflection Studies of Superconductors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Superconductor
Tunneling
Point contact
Topological superconductor
multiband superconductor
proximity effect

File:

Download Thesis_140404_Dai_rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Brom, Joseph Edward

Title:

Growth and Characterization of Bismuth Selenide Thin Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CVD
Bi2Se3
bismuth selenide
topological insulator

File:

Download Full_Document_Final_-_Revised_05272014.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Yinghai

Title:

Fractional Quantum Hall States in Continuum and Lattice Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological phases
quantum Hall states
composite fermions
quantum gases
synthetic gauge fields

File:

Download Yinghai_Wu_Dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Nistor, Committee Member
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Joon Sue

Title:

Topological insulator systems with magnetism

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological insulator
surface state
magnetism
ferromagnetism
spintronics
molecular beam epitaxy

File:

Download JoonSueLee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Nourhani, Amir

Title:

Kinematic Matrix Theory, Chiral Diffusion and Chromatography of Self-propellers

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Kinematic matrix theory
Gaussian memory
chiral diffusion
chiral separation
swimmer
self-propeller
nanomotor
nanorotor

File:

Download Amir-Dissertation-physics-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Special Member

Author:

Hatipoglu, Gokhan

Title:

MICROMACHINED QUARTZ RESONATOR BASED HIGH SENSITIVITY MAGNETOMETERS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Sensors
Magnetostriction
Quartz resonators

File:

Download Gokhan_Hatipoglu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Kandala, Abhinav

Title:

Transport studies of mesoscopic and magnetic topological insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological Insulators
Magneto-transport
Quantum anomalous Hall effect
Magnetism
Quantum interference

File:

Download Dissertation_AbhinavKandala.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member

Author:

Thathachary, Arun V

Title:

Physics, Fabrication And Characterization Of Iii-v Multi-gate Fets For Low Power Electronics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

III-V
low power
CMOS
FinFET
transport
MOSFET
Hall mobility
transconductance
injection velocity

File:

Download PhD_thesis_AVThathachary_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member

Author:

Magyar, Andrew Lewis

Title:

Statistics of Single Unit Responses in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe: a Sparse and Overdispersed Code

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

theoretical neuroscience
memory
neural representation
sparse coding

File:

Download Magyar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member

Author:

Hsu, Hsiu-chuan

Title:

Theoretical study on transport properties of topological states of matter

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum anomalous Hall effect
magnetoconductance
topological insulator nanotube

File:

Download HsiuchuanHsu.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Du, Renzhong

Title:

Electrical Transport Studies Of Topological Insulator Bi2te3 Nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological Insulator
Quantum Transport
Nanotubes

File:

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Committee Members:

Qi Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yang

Title:

single qubit addressing

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum physics
quantum computing
quantum information
qubit
AMO
optical lattice

File:

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Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Sean Hallgren, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Wisser, Jacob John

Title:

Electrical and thermal transport in bismuth telluride/antimony telluride superlattices grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

thermoelectric
superlattices
topological insulators

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Wallace Robinett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Coimbatore Balram, Ajit

Title:

Exotic emergent phenomena in the fractional quantum Hall effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

FQHE
topological phases
composite fermions

File:

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Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Fraleigh, Robert Douglas

Title:

Direct Investigation of Collective Phenomena In Patterned Ising-like Arrays Using High-Resolution Kerr Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Kerr Imaging
Magneto Optical Kerr Effect
Geometric Frustration
Perpendicular Anisotropy

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Giordano, Gerardo

Title:

NEUTRINO FLAVOR OSCILLATIONS IN THE ICECUBE DEEPCORE ARRAY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Tau
Neutrinos
DeepCore
IceCube
Neutrino Flavor Oscillations

File:

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Committee Members:

Irina Mocioiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tyce DeYoung, Committee Member
Jorge Sofo, Committee Member
Peter Meszaros, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Cooper, Brian C

Title:

NOVEL SYNTHETIC METHODS AND CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES OF NIOBIUM-DISULFIDE IN MULTIPLE GEOMETRIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

NbS2
Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide

File:

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Qingze

Title:

CRYSTALLINE SYMMETRY IN TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS AND SUPERCONDUCTORS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulators
topological superconductors
crystalline symmetry
quantum anomalous Hall effect
spin texture
circular photogalvanic effect
topological crystalline insulators
topological crystalline superconductors
nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetry
quantum well
quantum spin Hall effect
topological mirror superconductors
topological mirror insulators
topological classification
magnetic semiconductors

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Member

Author:

Pan, Yu

Title:

Optoelectronic study of topological insulators and topological insulator - magnetic insulator heterostructures

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulators
optoelectronics
spintronics
photo-galvanic effect
magnetism

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Jing

Title:

A transport study of emerging phenomena in bilayer graphene nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

bilayer graphene
valleytronics
quantum Hall effect
quantum valley Hall
kink state
effective mass
quantum Hall edge tunneling

File:

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Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

Author:

Zheng, Yuanxia

Title:

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION OF HIGH-K DIELECTRICS ON GERMANIUM AND TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Germanium
atomic layer deposition
transition metal dichalcoginide

File:

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Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Kally, James Cameron

Title:

TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR/MAGNETIC INSULATOR HETEROSTRUCTURES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Topological insulator
ferromagnetic insulator
MnAl

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Feng, Simin

Title:

SYNTHESIS OF GRAPHENE AND TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSITIONAL METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR OPTICAL PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
Graphene
Transition metal dichalcogenide
Raman spectroscopy
Graphene enhanced Raman scattering
Chemical vapor deposition

File:

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Kamp, Eric Jeffrey

Title:

Magnetometry with the Nitrogen Vacancy Center: Techniques and Applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Condensed Matter Physics
Optics
Nitrogen Vacancy Center
Magnetometry

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Kumar, Aishwarya

Title:

Neutral atom quantum computing : Quantum gates and Maxwell's demon

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Computation
Atomic Physics
optical lattice
neutral atoms
Cesium
rydberg
quantum gates
randomized benchmarking
laser
maxwell's demon
entropy

File:

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Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Outside Member

Author:

Kempinger, Susan

Title:

Artificial Magnetic Systems in 2 and 3 Dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Artificial Magnetic Materials
Magneto-optics
Artificial Spin Ice
Magnetic Metamaterials

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Tupikov, Yevhen

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SONGBIRD HVC MICROCIRCUIT FOR PRECISE TIMING

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

songbird
HVC
polychronous
precise timing
neural circuit
song learning
song development
sequence growth

File:

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Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dezhe Jin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiao, Di

Title:

Quantum Transport in 2 and 3 Dimensional Topological Insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological Insulators
Quantum Transport
InAs/GaSb
Axion Insulator
Quantum Spin Hall
Quantum Anomalous Hall
Molecular Beam Epitaxy

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diaz, Manuel

Title:

SEMICLASSICAL CONSISTENT CONSTRAINTS WITH MOMENTS IN SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC QUANTUM GRAVITY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Canonical Quantum Gravity
Semiclassical Constraint Algebra
Canonical Effective Method
Dirac Algebra
Hypersurface Deformation Algebra
First-Class Algebra
First-Class Constraints
Constrained Hamiltonian System
Effective Theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Joshua

Title:

Dynamical Fermionization and Bose-Fermi Oscillation in One-Dimensional Bose Gases

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Tonks Girardeau
Lieb-Liniger
Many-body Quantum Dynamics
Dynamical Fermionization

File:

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Committee Members:

David S. Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David S. Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marcos Rigol, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Yixuan

Title:

Electronic localization in 3D silicon and platinum metalattices and magnetoelectrical transport properties of Dirac nodal line semimetal ZrSiS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

disordered electronic system
weak localization
Anderson localization
magnetoelectrical transport properties
Fermi surface

File:

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Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Jiabin

Title:

Symmetry and Topology in Quantum Matter

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topology
Symmetry
Quantum Phase
Quantum Phase Transition
Noninteracting Crystal

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Radu Roiban, Committee Member
Marcos Antonio Rigol, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guglielmon, Jonathan

Title:

Topology and Aperiodicity in Engineered Photonic Media

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological Photonics
Slow Light
Floquet Systems
Localization
Waveguide Arrays
Aperiodic Systems
Photonic Crystals
Pseudomagnetic Fields

File:

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Committee Members:

Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Madhukar Mallayya, Krishnanand

Title:

Relaxation dynamics of isolated quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Numerical Linked Cluster Expansions
Quantum Many Body Dynamics
Prethermalization
Thermalization
Isolated quantum systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Marcos Antonio Rigol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marcos Antonio Rigol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Banerjee, Riju

Title:

Mechanical and electronic properties of graphene under inhomogeneous strain

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
strain
2D materials
STM

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric W Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric W Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Adrianus Van Duin, Outside Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bulanchuk, Pavlo

Title:

Conduction Properties of Sodium-Ammonia Solution

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

sodium-ammonia
liquid superconductor
superconductivity in sodium-ammonia
metal-ammonia

File:

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Committee Members:

Moses Hung-Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung-Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Alexey Silakov, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cooley, Kayla Anne

Title:

The Effect of Metal Incorporation on Properties and Critical Interfaces in Germanium Telluride Based Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase Change Materials
Electrical Contacts
GeTe
Solid-State Reactions
Contact Resistance
Metal-Incorporation
Ternary Phase Diagrams
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Thin Films

File:

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Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ge, Yang

Title:

Universal Landau Zener behavior in the dynamics of topological phase transitions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological phase transition
Floquet systems
Cold gases in optical lattices
Topological insulators

File:

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Committee Members:

Marcos Antonio Rigol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marcos Antonio Rigol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Committee Member
Paul Frank Baum, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Consevage, Steven

Title:

Holographic Coding For Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Second Order Spherical Harmonics

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

MRI
Holography
Compressed Sensing
Low-Field MRI
Diffractive Imaging

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Unit Member
Thomas Neuberger, Outside Field Member
Srinivas Tadigadapa, Special Member
Steven Schiff, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Delaunay, James

Title:

Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Multi-Messenger Era

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

gamma-ray bursts
multi-messenger
gravitational waves
Swift
astrophysics
high-energy astrophysics

File:

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Committee Members:

Miguel Mostafa, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kohta Murase, Major Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Major Field Member
Derek Fox, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Granzier-Nakajima, Tomotaroh

Title:

Electronic, Structural, and Chemical Response of Strain and Heteroatom Doping on Graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Graphene
strain
pseudo electromagnetic field
oxygen reduction reaction
graphene oxide
graphene ripple
doped graphene
boron and nitrogen co-doped graphene
nitrogen doped graphene
boron doped graphene
XPS
in-situ Raman

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Hudson, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pu, Songyang

Title:

Study of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Periodic Geometries

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Fractional quantum Hall effect
Composite fermions
Periodic geometries
Torus
Wave functions
Hall viscosities
Berry phase
Anyons

File:

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Committee Members:

Radu Roiban, Major Field Member
Jainendra Jain, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rodriguez, Justin

Title:

Material properties and device applications of ferroelectric In2Se3 and high-mobility InSe

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

InSe
In2Se3
ferroelectricity
2D materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Tom Jackson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Major Field Member
Ying Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Malvania, Neel

Title:

Tests of Generalized Hydrodynamics in One-Dimensional Bose Gases

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Generalized Hydrodynamics
Ultracold trapped gases
Quenched systems
Nearly-integrable systems
Rapidities

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Mikael Rechtsman, Major Field Member
David Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Hudson, Major Field Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Teng

Title:

An Improved Measurement of Cesium Ground State Tensor Polarizability

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Precision Measurement
Cold atoms

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Mikael Rechtsman, Major Field Member
David Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Martin Bojowald, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Yicheng

Title:

Studies of one-dimensional models of ultra-cold quantum gases

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

One-dimensional quantum many-body system
Ultracold quantum gas
Quantum entanglement
Generalized hydrodynamics
Emergent eigenstate solution
Generalized thermalization
Rapidity
Integrable model

File:

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Committee Members:

Marcos Rigol, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vincent Crespi, Major Field Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
David Weiss, Major Field Member

Author:

Green, Brett

Title:

Memory Function Formalism for the Electrical Conductivity of Periodic Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

conductivity
transport
condensed matter
memory function

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Jun Zhu, Major Field Member
Lasse Jensen, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Jorge Sofo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pankova, Daria

Title:

The Search For High Energy Tau Neutrinos With The IceCube Neutrino Detector

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

neutrino
tau neutrinos
IceCube
physics
machine learning
CNN

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Cowen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephane Coutu, Major Field Member
Derek Fox, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Stasto, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhao, Tongzhou

Title:

THEORETICAL STUDY OF FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT UNDER REALISTIC CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Fractional quantum Hall effects
Composite fermion theory
fixed-phase diffusion Monte Carlo

File:

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Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chad Hanna, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ying Liu, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hu, Yayun

Title:

Applications of Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory to Topological Particles

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

fractional quantum Hall effect
density functional theory
composite fermion
anyon

File:

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Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Gerald Knizia, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Borhanian, Ssohrab

Title:

Compact Binaries as Astrophysical Laboratories and the Promise of Third-Generation Detectors

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Gravitational Waves
General Relativity
Compact Binaries
Fisher Information
Cosmology
Astronomy
Third-Generation Detectors

File:

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Committee Members:

Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chad Hanna, Major Field Member
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
David Radice, Major Field Member

Author:

Leblond, Tyler

Title:

Studies of matrix elements of observables in quantum many-body systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

physics
quantum
many-body
thermalization
chaos
integrability
matrix elements
random matrix theory
statistical mechanics

File:

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Committee Members:

Marcos Antonio Rigol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marcos Antonio Rigol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugenio Bianchi, Committee Member
Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Committee Member
Luen-Chau Li, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pillsbury, Timothy

Title:

Electronic and Magnetic Properties of MBE Grown Topological Semimetals

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological materials
magnetism
molecular beam epitaxy
ARPES
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cuizu Chang, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Fan

Title:

Transport in reconfigurable multiterminal graphene-based Josephson junctions

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

multiterminal Josephson effect
Andreev processes
multi-port noneciprocity
graphene

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhiqiang Mao, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Morteza Kayyalha, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Kalyanapuram, Nikhil

Title:

Prescriptive Unitarity and Rigidity at Two Loops

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

scattering amplitudes
quantum field theory
mathematical physics
elliptic functions

File:

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Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Radu Roiban, Major Field Member
Nigel Higson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Bourjaily, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anna Stasto, Major Field Member

Author:

Yanez Parreno, Wilson Jonathan

Title:

Spin dependent phenomena in topological and two-dimensional materials: from insulators to semimetals and beyond

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

topology
spin
spin transport
ferromagnetism
Dirac semimetal
Weyl semimetal
topological insulator
topological semimetal
two-dimensional ferromagnet
two-dimensional metal
magnetization switching
spin Hall effect

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fateminasrollahi, Fatemehsadat

Title:

Attractor identification and control in Boolean models of plant-pollinator networks

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Boolean modeling
mutualistic systems
complex systems
plant-pollinator communities
network theory

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Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Carpio Dumler, Jose

Title:

High-energy neutrino transients as a probe of neutrino physics

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

High-Energy Astrophysics
Neutrino Astrophysics
Beyond Standard Model Physics

File:

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Committee Members:

Kohta Murase, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Cowen, Major Field Member
Luiz de Viveiros, Major Field Member
Peter Meszaros, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Yu Sheng

Title:

Characterization and Synthesis of BiSb Thin Films: MBE Growth, Pole Figures, Raman Spectroscopy, and Other Characterization Techniques

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

BiSb
spin-orbit-torque devices
molecular beam epitaxy
X-ray diffraction
pole figure measurement
Raman spectroscopy

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Eric Hudson, Major Field Member