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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:

Download Thesis_Fan_review.pdf

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:

Download Prescriptive_Unitarity_and_Rigidity_at_Two_Loops-4.pdf

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:

Download WYDissertation.pdf

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:

Download PSU_Dissertation.pdf

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

Author:

Vaidya, Sachin

Title:

Topological Photonic Crystals in One, Two and Three Dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Topological Photonics
Photonic Crystals
Weyl points
Anderson Localization
Quasicrystals
Bound States in the Continuum
Higher-Order Topological Phases
Chern Insulators

File:

Download Sachin_Vaidya_Dissertation_2023.pdf

Committee Members:

Mikael Rechtsman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Eric Hudson, Major Field Member
Noel Giebink, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Yanan

Title:

Superconductivity and bosonic metal states of FeSe/SrTiO3

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

anomalous metal
bosonic strange metal
FeSe/SrTiO3
two-dimensional superconductivity

File:

Download PS_Dissertation_Yanan_Li_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rable, Jeffrey

Title:

Sensing Ferromagnetic Dynamics Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Containing Nanodiamonds

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

quantum sensing
diamond
ferromagnetic resonance
qubit
ferromagnetic dynamics
nanodiamond
condensed matter physics
optics
magnetometry

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Committee Members:

Mikael Rechtsman, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xingjie Ni, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Zhen Bi, Major Field Member

Author:

Ryan, Michael

Title:

Small Particles, Massive Results: Exotic Compact Objects From Atomic Dark Matter

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

cosmology
astrochemistry
dark matter
compact objects
dark white dwarf
black hole
dark chemistry

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Shandera, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Radice, Major Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Major Field Member
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair