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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phase and Structural Transitions in Model Lung Surfactant Mixtures.
(2010)
Lung surfactant (LS) is a complex mixture of lipids and proteins that reduces and regulates the surface tension in the lungs, thereby decreasing the work of breathing. A thorough understanding of LS function is critical ...
Computational Complexity in Entanglement Transformations.
(2010)
In physics, systems having three parts are typically much more difficult to analyze than those having just two. Even in classical mechanics, predicting the motion of three interacting celestial bodies remains an insurmountable ...
Measurement of the Production Cross-Section of Z u+u- with ATLAS at the LHC at Vs=7 TeV.
(2011)
This thesis presents measurements of the inclusive process pp->(Z->mu+mu-)+anything based on 40.2~pb^-1 of data from LHC collisions with center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s)=7 TeV as recorded by the ATLAS detector.
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Exploring Storm Time Ring Current Formation and Response on the Energy Input.
(2010)
While extensive research has been made over the last decades regarding the storm-time dynamics, there are still unanswered questions regarding the ring current formation and plasmasphere evolution, specifically about the ...
Flux Attractors and Generating Functions.
(2010)
We use the flux attractor equations to study IIB supergravity compactifications with 3-form fluxes. We show that the attractor equations determine not just the values of the complex structure moduli and the axio-dilaton, but ...
Selected Topics on the Dark Side.
(2011)
Although significant progress has been made in understanding the nature and history of our universe there are still many open questions in cosmology. The nature of the dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) are still elusive. ...
Solid State NMR Investigations of Lipid Bilayers and Biomembrane Binding Molecules: Dendrimers and Amylin.
(2010)
The goal of this project was to investigate the interaction between lipid binding molecules, such as peptides and drug compounds, with biological lipid bilayers. The results demonstrate that human amylin, a peptide hormone ...
Cartesian Treecode Algorithms for Electrostatic Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
(2010)
This thesis is concerned with algorithms for evaluating the Coulomb potential en- ergy and forces due to interacting charged particles in molecular dynamics (MD) sim- ulations. We consider Cartesian treecode algorithms ...
Quantum Computing Over Long Time Scales in a Singly Charged Quantum Dot.
(2011)
In this thesis, we will study the continuous wave optical spectroscopy of self-assembled quantum dots (SAQDs), focusing on the use of these dots toward quantum computing and information processing applications. Probing the ...
Spin and Lattice Dynamics in Thin Films: From Femtoseconds to Nanoseconds.
(2010)
In this dissertation we set out to quantitatively investigate the dynamics of magnetic thin films. Specifically, we studied the spin dynamics in epitaxial metallic ferromagnets and the coupling to other degrees of freedom, ...