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Investigation of Magneto-Electric Rectification at the Molecular Level
(2023)
The role of the optical magnetic field in light-matter interactions is often neglected due to its relative weakness with respect to the optical electric field. However, the magnetic field of light can interact strongly ...
Single-Molecule Mapping and Heterogeneous Dynamics of Epigenetic Modifications in Live Microbes
(2023)
Single-Particle Tracking (SPT) in living cells informs the dynamics of target molecules and enables the investigation of their functions and interactions with other components in the cell. The quantitative analysis of SPT ...
Hydrodynamic Instabilities in High-Energy-Density Physics
(2023)
Hydrodynamic instabilities affect a vast range of length scales in High Energy Density (HED) systems, spanning from galaxy formation [10$^{13}$ m] to inertial confinement fusion [10$^{-6}$ m]. The most proficient star-forming ...
Investigating Spatial Organization and Physicochemical Interactions in Biomembranes: Tools and Insights
(2023)
The lipid membranes of cells are complex structural and functional landscapes. Beyond being a selective barrier separating the cell from its surroundings, the membrane serves also as a two-dimensional solvent dictating the ...
Characterization of X-Pinches on the MAIZE Linear Transformer Driver
(2023)
An X-pinch, formed by driving an intense current pulse (>100 kA in ~100 ns) through the
crossing of 2 or more wires, can result in the formation of a small radius, runaway compressional micro-pinch. A micro-pinch is ...
Computational and Theoretical Advances in Accurately Modeling Molecular Wave Functions
(2023)
Throughout the past few decades, the use of theoretical methods has become standard practice in the chemical disciplines. This thesis addresses developments in quantum chemical methods for studying challenging electronic ...
A Search for Scalar Resonances in the Mass Range 66 - 110 GeV/c2 Produced in pp Collisions at s = 13 TeV and Observed in the Two Photon Final State
(2023)
We report on the search for new Higgs-like particles with SM-like scalar couplings produced in pp collisions with a mass in the range of 66 – 110 GeV/c2 and decay- ing to two photons. The search is conducted in the pp ...
Celestial Dragons and Brushing Teeth
(2023)
This dissertation delves into two domains. The first domain is cosmology and astrophysics, investigating galaxy occupation of dark matter halos as well as characterization of the star-forming and quiescent galaxy populations ...
Firing-Rate Models in Computational Neuroscience: New Applications and Methodologies
(2023)
Neurons make the nervous system tick. By communicating via electrical impulses, neurons form concentrated networks in localized regions of the brain to carry out the complex tasks required of the nervous system, ranging ...
Kinetic Theory of Strongly Magnetized Plasmas
(2023)
Coulomb collisions in plasmas are typically modeled using the Boltzmann collision operator or its variants. These apply to weakly magnetized plasmas in which the typical gyroradius of particles significantly exceeds the ...