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Author:

Holliday, Kito S

Title:

The Mechanical and Optical Properties of and Disordered Materials

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

photonic crystal
optimization
order-disorder phase transition
foldy-lax

File:

Download Kito-Holliday-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., 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:

Jiang, Longhua

Title:

quantum phase transition in strongly correlated systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

FFLO
Bilayer quantum Hall system
boson Hubbard model

File:

Download finalthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member

Author:

Rosario, Mari-Anne M

Title:

Effects of disorder and geometrical constraint on superconductivity in systems of reduced dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

mesoscopic superconductors
electrical transport in thin films
disordered superconductors
Superconductivity

File:

Download thesismmrfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Peterson, Michael Ronald

Title:

Perturbative Improvements and Exotic Excitations of Composite Fermions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

condensed matter physics
fractional quantum Hall effect
composite fermions

File:

Download mrp-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Nitesh

Title:

Electrical properties of superconducting and hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
nanowires
electrodeposition
ferromagnets
superconductor-ferromagnet
one-dimensional

File:

Download Nitesh_Kumar-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Jolad, Shivakumar

Title:

Physics at the edge of fractional quantum Hall systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

composite Fermions
emergent behavior
quantum Hall effect
condensed matter physics
quantum Monte-Carlo
Low dimensional physics

File:

Download ShivThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Kenneth O Hara, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member

Author:

Fernando, Sudarshan

Title:

PP-Wave Superalgebras of Supergravity Theories in Ten and Eleven Dimensions and Their Spectra

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

pp-wave
plane-wave
superalgebra
supergravity
superstring theory
M-theory
Penrose limit
zero-mode spectra
AdS/CFT
BMN
oscillator method

File:

Download my_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Murat Gunaydin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Adrian Ocneanu, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Sungjun

Title:

Pumping spin, singlet pairs, and light

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum pumping
spintronics
entanglement

File:

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Committee Members:

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