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Author:

Zhang, Feng

Title:

Search for new optical, structural and electronic properties: from photons to electrons

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

photonic crystals
photonic bandgap
unsaturated silicon
direct-gap germanium
ferromagnetism/paramagnetism transition

File:

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Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
David Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Peihong

Title:

THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS: NOVEL GROUP-IV MATERIALS AND REAL SPACE METHODS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

multigrid
finite element methods
Electronic structure
real-space methods
carbon nanotubes
ab initio
band structure
semiconductor
planewave
pseudopotential

File:

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Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Duming

Title:

Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulator
superconductivity
ferromagnetism
proximity effect
Majorana fermions
Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3)
nanoribbon
MBE thin film

File:

Download DumingZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, 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:

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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:

Zhang, Yi

Title:

One-dimensional Fermi Gases with Rapid Control of Interactions: Toward the Observation of Dicke States and Exotic Superfluid Pairing

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

One-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Entangled Dicke States
Exotic Superfluid Pairing
FFLO Phase
Rapid Interaction Control.

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth O'hara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Weiss, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yisi

Title:

Neural mechanisms of vocal sequence generation in songbirds

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Motor sequence
songbird
neural circuitry
syntax
temperature
auditory feedback
hemisphere

File:

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Committee Members:

Alexay Kozhevnikov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexay Kozhevnikov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yuhe

Title:

Microscopic Study of Statistics, Spin and Excitons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

FQHE
composite fermion
braid statistics
spin
exciton
microscopic study
Monte Carlo

File:

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Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Ruixing

Title:

Topological States in Solids: A Song of Symmetry and Interactions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Symmetry Protected Topological State
Topological Crystalline Insulator
Topological Semimetal
Majorana Physics

File:

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Jianxiao

Title:

Quantum Transport in two-dimensional topological systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum transport
topological system
topological superconductor
Quantum anomalous Hall
Green's function

File:

Download JianxiaoZhang-Dissertation-Quantum_Transport_in_two-dimensional_topological_systems.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Committee Member
Zi-Kui Liu, Outside Member