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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:

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:

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:

Rozum, Jordan

Title:

Attractor identification and control of Boolean and ODE network models in systems biology

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

systems biology
network science
discrete dynamics
Boolean networks
gene regulatory networks
ordinary differential equations
control theory
stable motifs

File:

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Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Lu Bai, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Reluga, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zou, Fan

Title:

Long Range Chromosomal Interactions and First Passage Process in Budding Yeast

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Chromosome organization
Chromosomal interaction
chromosomal diffusion
first passage time
Rouse polymer model

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Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Outside Unit Member
Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
David Gilmour, Outside Field Member
Lu Bai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reka Albert, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Giraldo Mejia, Felipe

Title:

Progress towards generating a 3D Cluster State in a neutral atom quantum computer

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Quantum computing
Neutral Atoms
Cluster States
Quantum Information
Atomic Physics
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Quantum Error Correction

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kurt Gibble, Major Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Umar, Mohamed Mauroof

Title:

Planar Defects in Wurtzite Materials

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Wurtzite Materials
Planar Defects
Inversion Domain Boundaries
Polar Materials
Density Functional Theory Calculations

File:

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Major Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vincent Crespi, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiao, Run

Title:

QUANTUM TRANSPORT IN TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Quantum transport
Topological materials
Molecular beam epitaxy
Magnetically doped topological insulators
Quantum anomalous Hall effect
Dirac semimetals
Integer quantum Hall Effect

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zhao, Yifan

Title:

EXPLORATION OF HIGH CHERN NUMBER AND HIGH TEMPERATURE QUANTUM ANOMALOUS HALL EFFECT

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

quantum anomalous Hall effect
topological insulator

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Yu, Monong

Title:

Cosmic-ray iron spectrum measured by the ISS-CREAM experiment

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

cosmic rays
direct measurements
machine learning
neural networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Miguel Mostafa, Major Field Member
Douglas Cowen, Major Field Member
Stephane Coutu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Randy McEntaffer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Stephanie Wissel, Major Field Member

Author:

Binion, Anna

Title:

Complex Doping Structures in 2D Heterostructures of Mo2C, MoS2 and Graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

2D Heterostructure
Mo2C
MoS2
Graphene
STM
AFM
Phase Seperation
Doping

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Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Major Field Member
Eric Hudson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khera, Neev

Title:

Gravitational waveforms and the BMS group

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Gravitational waves
General Relativity
Black holes
Gravitational Memory
Quasinormal Modes
BMS Group

File:

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Committee Members:

Abhay Ashtekar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Toan Nguyen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chad Hanna, Major Field Member

Author:

Ding, Ding

Title:

Effective Methods In Cosmology And Gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Effective methods
Cosmology
Gravity
Quantum field theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Radu Roiban, Major Field Member
Ping Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eugenio Bianchi, Major Field Member
Martin Bojowald, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Mingzu

Title:

MODIFICATION OF TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES’ OPTICAL, ELECTRICAL, AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES THROUGH ALLOYING

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

2D materials
transition metal dichalcogenides
2D magnetism
chemical vapor deposition
semiconductors
doping
alloying
defect engineering

File:

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Hudson, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yuan, Chengchao

Title:

Neutrino and Electromagnetic Counterparts of Galaxy and Astrophysical Black Hole Mergers

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Multimessenger Astrophysics
High-Energy Astrophysics
Astroparticle Physics
Compact Binary Mergers
Galaxy Mergers

File:

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Committee Members:

Miguel Mostafa, Major Field Member
Kohta Murase, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Cowen, Major Field Member
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Meszaros, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Van Kuppeveld, Martijn

Title:

Nonassociative Quantum Mechanics

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Nonassociative
Quantum Mechanics
Magnetic Monopoles

File:

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Committee Members:

Murat Gunaydin, Major Field Member
Ping Xu, Outside Unit Member
Nigel Higson, Outside Field Member
Martin Bojowald, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zheng, Boyang

Title:

Theory of Two-Dimensional Materials: Substitutional Doping, Magnetism and Photoemission

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

2D materials
density functional theory

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Vincent Crespi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dhani, Arnab

Title:

All things gravitational waves

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Gravitational waves
Black hole
Ringdown
Cosmology
Neutron star
equation of state

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Tavares, Leonardo Estevao

Title:

Automatic Recognition of Birdsong Syllables Using Ultra-Sparse Spike Sequence Representations

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

birdsong
songbird
speech
speech recognition
syllable recognition
spike code
sparse representation
neuronal reconstruction
soma

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Collins, Major Field Member
Chad Hanna, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Dezhe Jin, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor