The half-filled Kondo lattice model, augmented by a Zeeman term, serves as a useful model of a Kondo insulator in an applied magnetic field. A variational mean field analysis of this system on a square lattice, backed up ...

The problem of excitation of the drift-tearing mode (Coppi, 1964) in high-temperature plasmas is considered. Existing theories predict that under the conditions typical of modern toroidal experiments on nuclear fusion, the ...

Clusters of galaxies are useful probes of cosmology because they are the most massive bound systems and fair representatives of the matter composition of the universe. For clusters to be used as tracers of cosmic evolution, ...

This thesis reports on our investigation of the uses of matter waves to probe many-body targets. We begin by discussing decoherence in an atom interferometer, in which a free gas acts as a refractive medium for a matter ...

Flavor oscillations of neutral B mesons have been studied with e+e- annihilation data collected at center of mass energies near the [gamma](4S) at the PEP-II asymmetric collider with the BABAR detector. One B⁰ is fully ...