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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 ...
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 ...
Studies of two particle correlation functions and photon-tagged jet fragmentation in PbPb and pp Collisions with CMS at the LHC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis studies of two particle correlations in proton-proton (pp), proton-lead (pPb), and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions, as well as jet fragmentation functions for jets paired with an isolated prompt photon in pp and ...
Bridging Hubbard model physics and quantum Hall physics in graphene moire superlattices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis is focused on the strongly correlated physics of graphene moiré superlattices formed in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) and ABC trilayer graphene aligned with hexagon boron ...
Scalable perturbation and measurement of biological function via molecular encoding
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Methods are presented for optical genetic screens and lineage tracking and recovery. Pooled optical screens use pooling and molecular encoding to conduct image-based genetic screens at large scales with reduced biological ...
Searching for dark matter with the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions containing a single high-pT photon and large E miss/t
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In this thesis, we present a search for dark matter in final states containing a high- PT photon and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at [square root of s] = 13 TeV using data collected by the ...
Von Neumann algebras in field theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In this thesis, I show that modular flows of generic excited states in a quantum field theory can be studied by restricting attention to a special class of states whose associated modular flow can be characterised easily; ...
Probing thermodynamics, correlations, and transport of the 2D Fermi-Hubbard model under a Fermi gas microscope
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Ultracold fermionic atoms in optical lattices offer a pristine platform for quantum simulation of materials with strong electron correlations. With the advent of quantum gas microscopy, we now have the abilities to observe ...
A framework to assess the economic and uncertainty implications for technologies for use in decarbonization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
The accumulation of greenhouse gasses is causing climate change on a global scale. From simulations of warming scenarios, it appears that complete replacements of fossil fuels within the global energy economy must occur ...
Boundaries, disorder and noise in quantum-coherent systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis aims to understand how quantum-coherent phenomena in solids are affected by the presence of boundaries, disorder, and classical noise. First, we consider surface states in Dirac materials. We show that these ...