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Author:

Solmeyer, Neal Eldrich

Title:

Progress towards an electron electric dipole moment measurement with laser-cooled atoms

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Precision measurement
laser-cooling
fundamental symmetry

File:

Download Solmeyer_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth O'hara, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Committee Member
Sergei Tabachnikov, Committee Member

Author:

Stites, Ronald William

Title:

The rapid control of interactions in a two-component Fermi gas

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

two-component Fermi gases
controlling interactions
injection locking
solid state ring lasers

File:

Download Ronald_Stites_-_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth O'hara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Kurt Gibble, Committee Member
David Weiss, Committee Member
John V Badding, 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:

Cheng, Zhigang

Title:

Thermodynamic Properties of Helium in Porous Media

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

helium
heat capacity
thermal conductivity
porous media

File:

Download Dissertation_Zhigang_Cheng.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Martin-wells, Ross Brandoch

Title:

Resonant Scattering Phase Shifts of Ultracold Cesium and Their Energy Dependence

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

laser cooling
atomic physics
atomic collisions
atomic clocks
ultracold scattering
Feshbach Resonances

File:

Download RBMW-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kurt Gibble, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Weiss, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Kenneth O'hara, Committee Member

Author:

Cheng, Shih-ho

Title:

A search for ultra-high energy neutron point sources with the Auger surface detector

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

astro-parcticle physics
cosmic rays
neutron sources
extensive air showers

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Sommers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Douglas Cowen, Committee Member
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member

Author:

Paily, George Mathew

Title:

Deformed General Relativity and Effective actions in Quantum Gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Gravity
Deformed algebras
Modified Gravity
General Relativity
Signature change
Effective actions

File:

Download GeorgePaily-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member
John Collins, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Simpson, David Bryant

Title:

Effective Equations of Cosmological Models in (loop) Quantum Gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum cosmology
effective equations
Hamiltonian constraint
factor ordering
electric time
non-linear discrete Schrödinger

File:

Download Simpson-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Ping Xu, 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