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Analysis of the swimming-to-crawling transition of Caenorhabditis elegans in viscous fluid
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The locomotory behavior of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is often characterized by two distinct gaits - swimming when in fluids and crawling when on surfaces. Swimming is characterized by about a twice greater ...
The Gamma Intensity Monitor at the Crystal-Barrel-Experiment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis details the motivation, design, construction, and testing of the Gamma Intensity Monitor (GIM) for the Crystal-Barrel-Experiment at the Universität Bonn. The CB-ELSA collaboration studies the baryon excitation ...
Spin-squeezing of ⁸⁷Rb via optical measurement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This project aims to reduce measurement uncertainty in atomic clocks by squeezing the collective spin of atoms. Spin-squeezing reduces noise below the standard quantum limit where precision scales as 1/ [square root of] ...
Finite-difference time-domain analysis of horn antenna scattering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Tactic behaviors in bacterial dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The locomotion of a wide class of motile bacteria can be mathematically described as a biased random walk in three-dimensional space. Fluid mechanics and probability theory are invoked to model the dynamics of bacteria ...
Solving the Dirac equation in a two-dimensional spacetime background with a kink
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
In the following paper, I study the Dirac equation in curved spacetime and solve this equation in two-dimensional spacetime backgrounds discovered by Jackiw et al[4], [5]. I will first discuss flat spacetime and introduce ...
The ground state and angular distributions of Ag18ÌŠ
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965)
Plasma oscillations in a laser.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970)
Design and fabrication of sharp bend photonic crystal slab waveguides
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
A periodic arrangement of atoms in a crystal presents a periodic potential for electrons. The bragg diffraction of electrons from the atoms may lead to a band gap, which represents a range of frequencies the electrons ...
Physical limits of intrabody singalling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)