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Nanophotonics for tailoring the flow of thermal electromagnetic radiation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In this thesis, we explore the interaction of thermal radiation with nano-scale structures. First, we introduce the concept of radiative energy transfer between two objects of different temperatures in the near field, and ...
Measurement of cosmic antiprotons with the alpha magnetic spectrometer aboard the International Space Station
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
A precision measurement of the cosmic antiproton ( -p) flux and the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio ( -p/p) made with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the International Space Station is presented. The measurement ...
Towards spin squeezed ¹⁷¹Yb atomic clock beyond the standard quantum limit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
State-of-the-art atomic clocks have fractional frequency instability of 6 x 10-17 at 1 s averaging time, and are aiming for even higher stability. One of the main factors limiting this stability is the standard quantum ...
Measuring the lepton sign asymmetry in elastic electron-proton scattering with OLYMPUS
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
OLYMPUS is a particle physics experiment that collected data in 2012 at DESY, in Hamburg, Germany, on the asymmetry between positron-proton and electron-proton elastic scattering cross sections. A non-zero asymmetry is ...
Topological materials and quantum entanglement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
As the title implies, this thesis consists of two main topics: materials which realize topological phases of matter and applications of the concept of entanglement in understanding topological phases and their transitions. ...
Elliptic fibrations among toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry of fibrations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In this thesis, we investigate the prevalence of elliptic and genus one fibrations among toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau three folds by (1) constructing explicitly elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds with large Hodge ...
Effective field theories for the LHC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In this thesis I study applications of effective field theories to understand aspects of QCD jets and their substructure at the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, I introduce an observable, D2 , which can be used for ...
An ultracold gas of dipolar fermionic ²³Na⁴⁰K molecules
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In this thesis, I present my work on creating ultracold dipolar molecules of ²³Na⁴⁰K in the singlet rovibrational ground state. These fermionic molecules have a large permanent electric dipole moment of 2.72 Debye, and are ...
A spatially resolved study of the KATRIN main spectrometer using a novel fast multipole method
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is intended to make a sensitive (~ 200 meV) model-independent measurement of the neutrino mass through high precision electrostatic spectroscopy of the tritium /-decay ...
Fluctuating interfaces and paths in disordered and non-equilibrium systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In this thesis, we study the statistics of fluctuating paths and interfaces in the presence of disorder. Specifically, we consider systems in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class for stochastic interface growth, from ...