Browsing by Subject "Condensed matter physics"
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An experimental study of the jamming phase diagram for two-dimensional granular materials.
(2020)What affects the transition of a collection of grains from flowing to a rigid packing? Previous efforts towards answering this important question have led to various versions of ``jamming’’ phase diagrams, which specify ... -
Crystal Symmetry Algorithms in a High-Throughput Framework for Materials Research
(2013)The high-throughput framework AFLOW that has been developed and used successfully over the last decade is improved to include fully-integrated software for crystallographic symmetry characterization. The standards used in ... -
Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems: Measurement, Entanglement, and Criticality
(2020)Open quantum systems refer to quantum systems that couple with their surrounding environment. They are ubiquitous, especially for quantum devices. Due to coupling with the external environment, the dynamics of open quantum ... -
Electron Transport through Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots in A Dissipative Environment
(2012)The role of the surroundings, or <italic> environment </italic>, is essential in understanding funda- mental quantum-mechanical concepts, such as quantum measurement and quantum entanglement. It is thought that a dissipative ... -
Electronic and Spin Correlations in Asymmetric Quantum Point Contacts
(2014)A quantum point contact (QPC) is a quasi-one dimensional electron system, for which the conductance is quantized in unit of $2e^2/h$. This conductance quantization can be explained in a simple single particle picture, where ... -
Fermion Bag Approach for Hamiltonian Lattice Field Theories
(2018)Understanding the critical behavior near quantum critical points for strongly correlated quantum many-body systems remains intractable for the vast majority of scenarios. Challenges involve determining if a quantum phase ... -
GaAsBi Synthesis: From Band Structure Modification to Nanostructure Formation
(2017)Research and development bismides have proven bismides to be a promising field for material science with important applications in optoelectronics. However, the development of a complete description of the electrical and ... -
Granular Impact Dynamics: Grain Scale to Macroscale
(2014)Granular impact, where a foreign object strikes a granular material like sand, is common in nature and industry. Due to experimental difficulties in obtaining sufficiently fast data at the scale of a single grain, a description ... -
Interacting Photons in Waveguide-QED and Applications in Quantum Information Processing
(2013)Strong coupling between light and matter has been demonstrated both in classicalcavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) systems and in more recent circuit-QEDexperiments. This enables the generation of strong nonlinear photon-photon ... -
Investigating the Ground States of Triangular Antiferromagnet Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates
(2021)The pursuit of the quantum spin liquid (QSL) state has been at the fore of condensed matter physics for several decades. In this exotic state of matter, spins remain dynamic in the zero temperature limit while retaining ... -
Novel Tensor Network Methods for Interacting Quantum Matter and Its Dynamical Response
(2020)The simulation of interacting quantum matter remains challenging. The Hilbert space dimension required to describe the physics grows exponentially with the system size, yet many interesting collective phenomena emerge only ... -
Physics of Hexagonal Limit-Periodic Phases: Thermodynamics, Formation and Vibrational Modes
(2016)Limit-periodic (LP) structures exhibit a type of nonperiodic order yet to be found in a natural material. A recent result in tiling theory, however, has shown that LP order can spontaneously emerge in a two-dimensional (2D) ... -
Pull-out Experiment in Granular Material
(2018)Two-dimensional impact experiments by Clark et al. identified the source of inertial drag to be caused by ‘collisions’ with a latent force network, leading to large fluctuations of the force experienced by the impactor. ... -
Shape Effects on Jamming of Granular Materials
(2012)In this work, we have focused on the jamming properties of systems composed of semi-2D elliptical shaped particles. In order to study these systems, we have performed three types of experiments: Couette shear, biaxial isotropic ... -
Soft Self-assembly and Densest Packings in Colloidal Models
(2017)Inspired by the beauty of various materials with distinct structures and functions in nature, researchers have been dedicating themselves to discover new ways of creating functional artificial materials to fulfill ... -
Superconducting Electron Transport in Graphene-Based Josephson Junctions
(2017)Graphene – a single atomic layer of graphite – is one of the most studied quasi two-dimensional materials (2D). Its electronic properties are particularly interesting, for example allowing one to study the physics of 2D ... -
The Effects of Lattice Anharmonicity on Phase Transitions and Thermal Conductivity Through Phonon Measurements in Energy Materials
(2021)Advances in neutron scattering instrumentation and first-principles calculations (due to increasing computational power) now allow for detailed studies of phonon anharmonicity, even in relatively complex systems. The work ... -
Thermal and Electronic Transport in Graphene Superconducting Devices
(2018)This dissertation presents the experimental methods and results of investigations into the nature of thermal and electronic transport at low temperatures in graphene superconducting devices. By coupling graphene ... -
Transport Mechanisms of Quantum Hall Supercurrents in Graphene Josephson Junctions
(2018)The existence of supercurrent in the quantum Hall regime with periodic magnetic interference patterns, first observed by Amet et al. in 2016, has created new opportunities to access topological superconductivity through ... -
Valley Dynamics and Tailored Light-matter Interaction in Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
(2017)Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), with direct bandgaps in the visible to near-infrared wavelength, offer a tantalizing platform for making optoelectronic devices with enhanced and novel functionalities. ...
