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First Muon Neutrino on Argon Cross Section Measurements With an Off-Axis Beam
(2021)
While over ninety years have passed since neutrinos were first predicted in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli, much about them is still unknown [20]. How many types of neutrinos there are, how precisely neutrinos change flavor, and ...
Topology and Symmetry in Weakly and Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems
(2021)
This thesis studies topological phases in various electronic crystalline systems with a focus on the interplay between symmetry and topology, including the non-interacting topological insulators, higher-order topological ...
Thermalization and Information Scrambling in Phases of Quantum Matter
(2021)
Understanding how quantum matter behaves when driven out of equilibrium is one of the key focuses in quantum physics. Thanks to impressive progress in the control and precision achieved in quantum synthetic matter over the ...
Many-body Interactions in Strongly Correlated Materials and Solid-State Quantum Devices
(2021)
In this thesis, we investigate the linear and nonlinear optical properties of strongly correlated materials and excitonic many-body interactions in quantum well systems. First, we present an extensive study on the linear ...
Complex Networks: Structure and Inference
(2021)
From the spread of disease across a population to the dispersion of vehicular traffic in cities, many real-world processes are driven by lots of small components that interact in simple ways at small scales to produce ...
Search for New Particles Decaying to Diphotons in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 13 TeV
(2021)
This thesis presents a search for new resonances decaying to diphotons in 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at a center of mass center of mass (COM) energy √s = 13 TeV. The ...
Rydberg Molecules and Excitation of Lattice-Mixed Rydberg States in a Deep Ponderomotive Optical Lattice
(2021)
In this dissertation, I explore several aspects of Rydberg physics with laser spectroscopy. The experiments center around the use of a very deep, cavity-generated, one-dimensional optical lattice in a cold atom sample. The ...
Contribution of Crevasse Advection and Mixed Mode Calving to Glacier Dynamics
(2021)
Modeling of the climate system including, but not limited to, atmospheric dynamics, ocean dynamics, and ice dynamics, is one of the crucial scientific problems of the 21st century. This work focuses on modeling of iceberg ...
The N=4 SU(N) Super-Yang-Mills Index and Dual AdS Black Holes
(2021)
The main subjects of this dissertation are indices of the N=4 SU(N) Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory, namely the topologically twisted index and the superconformal index. These indices have received a lot of attention since ...
Electron Acceleration and Radiation Generation from Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions and Statistical Methods at High Repetition-Rate
(2021)
This dissertation explores the interaction between high-intensity lasers and plasmas to accelerate electrons and produce radiation via experimental and computational efforts. The laser pulses used in this dissertation have ...