### Recent Submissions

• #### [2015-01-28]Internal Spin Control, Squeezing and Decoherence in Ensembles of Alkali Atomic Spins ﻿

Large atomic ensembles interacting with light are one of the most promising platforms for quantum information processing. In the past decade, novel applications for these systems have emerged in quantum communication, ...
• #### [2015-01-28]Rydberg Excitation of Single Atoms for Applications in Quantum Information and Metrology ﻿

With the advent of laser cooling and trapping, neutral atoms have become a foundational source of accuracy for applications in metrology and are showing great potential for their use as qubits in quantum information. In ...
• #### [2014-09-12]Topological Code Architectures for Quantum Computation ﻿

This dissertation is concerned with quantum computation using many-body quantum systems encoded in topological codes. The interest in these topological systems has increased in recent years as devices in the lab begin to ...
• #### [2014-09-12]Open Systems Dynamics for Propagating Quantum Fields ﻿

In this dissertation, I explore interactions between matter and propagating light. The electromagnetic field is modeled as a Markovian reservoir of quantum harmonic oscillators successively streaming past a quantum system. ...
• #### [2014-09-12]Accessing Gluon Polarization Through the J/ψ Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry in Polarized pp Collisions at PHENIX ﻿

To date, the exact distribution of the fundamental property of intrinsic angular momentum, or spin, in the proton amongst its constituents is largely unknown. Through observation of the production of the J/ψ particle in ...
• #### [2014-09-12]Particle Correlations in Bose-Einstein Condensates ﻿

The impact of interparticle correlations on the behavior of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) is discussed using two approaches. In the first approach, the wavefunction of a BEC is encoded in the <var>N</var>-particle sector ...
• #### [2014-07-12]Discovery of the Bc(2S) Meson and Development of Pixel Detectors for Future Particle Collider Experiments ﻿

This work involves an analysis of data recorded at the Large Hadron Collider combined with a program to develop detectors for future collider experiments. Using the full 4.9 fb$^{-1}$ of 7 TeV data collected in 2011 and ...
• #### [2014-07-12]Evidence for the Heavy Baryon Resonance State Lambda_b^*0 Observed with the CDF II Detector, and Studies of New Particle Tracking Technologies Using the LANSCE Proton Beam ﻿

To discover and probe the properties of new particles, we need to collide highly energetic particles. The Tevatron at Fermilab has collided protons and anti-protons at very high energies. These collisions produce short ...
• #### [2014-07-12]The Effect of Dynamical Image Forces on The Transport Properties of Charge Carriers and Excitons in Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures ﻿

We examine coupled metal nanoparticle/semiconductor hybrid nano-stuctures and analyze the effect that the surface response metal nanoparticles (MNP) has on the transport properties of the system. This analysis is accomplished ...
• #### [2014-07-12]A Study of Charge Transport: Correlated Energetic Disorder in Organic Semiconductors, and the Fragment Hamiltonian ﻿

This dissertation details work done on two different descriptions of charge transport. The first topic is energetic disorder in organic semiconductors, and its effect on charge transport. This is motivated primarily by ...
• #### [2014-02-14]Observations and Kinematic Modeling of Neutral Hydrogen in Spiral Galaxies: Implications for Disk-Halo Flows and Accretion ﻿

Recent realizations concerning kinematic measurements of extra-planar layers in nearby galaxies may provide important clues to the origin of such layers and thereby the growth and evolution of galaxy disks. In particular, ...
• #### [2014-02-14]Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor ﻿

Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the universe, yet relatively little is known about the progenitor that produces them despite more than forty years of study by the astronomical ...
• #### [2013-09-05]The biophysical effects of deuterium oxide on biomolecules and living cells through open notebook science. ﻿

This dissertation explores various effects of deuterium oxide (D2O also known as heavy water) in nature. Water is everywhere and interacts with just about everything. As such, it would be quite a daunting task to characterize ...
• #### [2013-09-05]Measurements of railgun generated supersonic plasma jet propagation and two jet oblique merging ﻿

Imploding spherical plasma liners have been proposed as a possible method for creating high-energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas and as a standoff driver for magneto-inertial fusion (MIF). The Plasma Liner Experiment ...
• #### [2013-09-05]OPTICAL AND OPTOMECHANICAL RESONATORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN COMMUNICATION AND SENSING ﻿

The radiation pressure of the large circulating optical power inside micro-scale high quality factor Whispering-Gallery mode micoresonators couples the mechanical deformation of the resonator structure to the optical ...
• #### [2013-07-11]HYPERSPECTRAL LINE-SCANNING MICROSCOPY FOR HIGH-SPEED MULTICOLOR QUANTUM DOT TRACKING ﻿

One of the challenges in studying protein interactions in live cells lies in the capacity to obtain both spatial and temporal information that is sufficient to extend existing knowledge of the dynamics and interactions, ...
• #### [2013-07-11]A Microfabricated Deuterium Ion Source for Compact Neutron Generators ﻿

Active neutron interrogation is generally accepted as a reliable means of detecting the illicit transportation of special nuclear materials, in particular highly enriched uranium. The development of portable active neutron ...
• #### [2013-07-11]Destruction of lipid-coated bubbles with pulsed ultrasound ﻿

Micron-sized bubbles are of some interest for applications in ultrasound contrast and ultrasound-targeted drug delivery. Bubbles must be coated to remain stable; otherwise the surface tension induces an internal Laplace ...
• #### [2013-07-11]Continuous Measurement and Stochastic Methods in Quantum Optical Systems ﻿

This dissertation studies the statistics and modeling of a quantum system probed by a coherent laser field. We focus on an ensemble of qubits dispersively coupled to a traveling wave light field. The first research topic ...
• #### [2013-01-31]Parsec-scale properties of gamma-ray bright blazars ﻿

The parsec-scale radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been investigated using observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). ...

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