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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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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