1. Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Properties of Strongly-Interacting Bosons in Optical Lattices Open Access Author: Xu, Wei Title: Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Properties of Strongly-Interacting Bosons in Optical Lattices Graduate Program: Physics Keywords: Optical LatticePath Integral Monte CarloWorm AlgorithmLieb-Liniger ModelTonks-Girardeau GasBose-Hubbard ModelFermionizationQuasicondensationInverse Confined Scattering AnalysisUltracold AtomsCondensed Matter PhysicsComputational Physics File: Download Thesis_WX.pdf Committee Members: Marcos Antonio Rigol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorMarcos Antonio Rigol, Committee Chair/Co-ChairDavid Scott Weiss, Committee MemberJainendra Jain, Committee MemberRam Mohan Narayanan, Outside Member