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Theses/Dissertations from 2026

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An Optically Pumped Comagnetometer for High-sensitivity RF Detection without Magnetic Shielding, Jonathan Edward Bainbridge

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Modeling lithographic quantum dots and donors for quantum computation and simulation, Mitchell Ian Brickson

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Radio Insights Into Gamma-Ray Mysteries, Seth M. Bruzewski

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The quantum computational utility of symmetry-protected topological order: From near-term advantages to universal measurement-based quantum computing, Austin Kevin Daniel

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Understanding the Nature of Pulsars and Characterizing Propagation Effects using Pulsar Timing, Pratik Kumar

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Rigorous Analysis of Markov Processes with Applications to Quantum Information, Samuel Edwin Slezak

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Application of Quantum Mechanical Techniques to Optical Waveguide Structures, Stuart Ward

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Near- and Far- Field Optical Response of Ensembles of Nanostructures, Lauren Zundel

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Reliability of Quantum Simulation on NISQ-era Devices, Karthik R. Chinni

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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Volcanoes and Their Processes, Katherine Cosburn

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Distance Estimates to Evolved Stars Using Infrared Emission and Verification and Validation of the Plasma Code EMPIRE, Brandon M. Medina

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Nonequilibrium and nonlinear dynamics in collective spin models and implementations using quantum feedback control, Manuel H. Munoz Arias

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Nano-fabricated Atomic Waveguides for Inertial Measurements, Adrian S. Orozco

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Magnetic microscopy and search for exotic interaction detection with color centers in diamond, Nathaniel Ristoff

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Optical and Computational Methods for Detection and Quantification of Protein-Protein Interactions using Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy, David James Schodt

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Resource Estimation for Quantum Simulation Algorithms, Changhao Yi

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Searching for the Global 21 cm Cosmic Dawn Absorption Signal with the Long Wavelength Array, Christopher DiLullo

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Non-Gaussian Measurements of Coherent States of Light for Metrology and Communication, Matthew DiMario

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Nanoscale Assembly of Dectin-1 and its Glucan Ligand in Immunocyte Membranes and Pathogen Cell Walls, Akram Etemadi Amin

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A Search for New Physics in B(s) to mu+mu- Decays Using Multivariate Data Analysis, and Development of Particle Detection Technology with Silicon Pixel Detectors, Aidan Grummer

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Probing the Galactic AGB population through infrared and SiO maser emission, Megan O. Lewis

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Fundamental aspects of the interaction between light and nanostructures, Stephen Keith Sanders

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Monte Carlo Simulations of Awkward Actions, David John Amdahl

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Bayesian Analysis of Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy Data, Mohamadreza Fazel

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Collective Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Multiple Dimensions and Scales, Joshua D. Martin

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Cherenkov Gamma Ray Detectors on High-Energy-Density Systems, Kevin Daniel Meaney

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On the complexity of Boson Sampling using atoms in optical lattices, Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan

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Exploring Hidden Structure of the Nearby Universe and the Limits and Capabilities of Two Neutral Hydrogen Surveys, Monica Sanchez Barrantes

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Monitoring the Low Frequency Radio Transient Sky with the Long Wavelength Array, Savin Shynu Varghese

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Understanding Solar Wind Formation by Identifying the Origins of In Situ Observations, Samantha Wallace

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Electromagnetic analysis of bidirectional reflectance from roughened surfaces and applications to surface shape recovery, Julian Antolin Camarena

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Searching for Supermassive Binary Black Holes and their Gravitational Waves, Karishma Bansal

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Quantum Algorithms with Applications to Simulating Physical Systems, Anirban Ch Narayan Chowdhury

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Improving the Readout of Semiconducting Qubits, Matthew Jon Curry

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The Production Cross Section of the J/ψ Meson Measured Using the PHENIX Detector at √ s =510 GeV, Katherine Marie DeBlasio

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Direct observation of atomic exchange during surface self-diffusion, Matthew Aaron Koppa

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Studying The Properties Of SF6 Gas Mixtures For Directional Dark Matter Detection, Randy J. Lafler

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Studies on the Generation and Detection of Orbital Angular Momentum Based on Beam-Shaping Techniques, xijie luo

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Using Natural Phenomena to Study the Ionosphere, Joseph Benjamin Malins

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Compact Optical Frequency Standards for Future Applications Beyond the Laboratory, Kyle Martin

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Investigation of Membrane Protein Dynamics using Correlative Single-Particle Tracking and Super-resolution Microscopy Combined with Bayesian Inference of Diusion in Arbitrary Landscapes, Hanieh Mazloom Farsibaf

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Dark Matter Production Beyond the Thermal WIMP Paradigm: an exploration of early matter domination scenarios, Jacek Ksawery Osinski

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Circumstellar SiO Masers in the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution Survey, Michael Cullen Stroh

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Topics in Three-Dimensional Imaging, Source Localization and Super-resolution, Zhixian Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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BERYLLIUM AND INDIUM ACTIVATION MEASUREMENTS OF TOTAL NEUTRON YIELD FROM A PULSED PHOTONEUTRON SOURCE, Kristina K. Brown

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Localization and Scrambling of Quantum Information with Applications to Quantum Computation and Thermodynamics, Adrian Kristian Chapman

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Quantum Phase Space Representations and Their Negativities, Ninnat Dangniam

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High-Throughput Automated Multi-Target Super-resolution Imaging, Farzin Farzam

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Studies of Light Generation with Four-Wave Mixing in a Cold Atomic Ensemble, Andrew Ferdinand

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Cavity Enhanced Optical Refrigeration and Spectroscopy, Mohammadreza Ghasemkhani

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Weak measurements for quantum characterization and control, Jonathan A. Gross

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Infrared Properties of Stars in the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution Survey, Eddie Hilburn

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Vibrational Relaxation Theory for Systems Embedded in Microscopically Specified Reservoirs, Anastasia Aemilia Ierides

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Development of Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters and Paramagnetic Alloys of Ag and Er for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy, Linh N. Le

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Neutrino Flavor Conversions in Dense Media, Lei Ma

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Novel Nonlinear and Quantum Devices Based on Multimode Optical Fibers, Hamed Pourbeyram

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Dispersive Quantum Interface with Atoms and Nanophotonic Waveguides, Xiaodong Qi

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Radon Measurement for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Xavier Carlos Quintana

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Quantum Algorithms, Architecture, and Error Correction, Ciarán Ryan-Anderson

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Towards Scalable Characterization of Noisy, Intermediate-Scale Quantum Information Processors, Travis Luke Scholten

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Proposed Method for Measuring the LET of Radiotherapeutic Particle Beams, Stephen D. Bello

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Molecular Tracers of Star Formation Feedback in Nearby Galaxies, Mark Gorski

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Gamma-Ray Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters with NbTa Passive Persistent Switches and Electroformed Au Absorbers, Ruslan Hummatov

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Measurement-Based Quantum Computation and Symmetry-Protected Topological Order, Jacob E. Miller

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NANOWIRE-BASED LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES: A NEW PATH TOWARDS HIGH-SPEED VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION, Mohsen Nami

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Search for New Physics Processes with Heavy Quark Signatures in the ATLAS Experiment, Aaron Taylor

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MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment, juijen wang

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Universal Disorder in Organic Semiconductors Due to Fluctuations in Space Charge, TZUCHENG WU

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Topics in the Physics of Supernovae and Neutron Stars, Sajad Abbar

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Efficient and Robust Methods for Quantum Tomography, Charles Baldwin

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Memory Effects in Brownian Motion, Random Walks under Confining Potentials, and Relaxation of Quantum Systems, Matthew Chase

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Seasonality of VLF attenuation through the ionosphere, Paul Greninger

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Quantum Information in Rydberg-Dressed Atoms, Tyler Emerson Keating

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Probing Dark Matter-Neutrino Connection via Indirect Detection Experiments, Bradley Knockel

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Characterizing Supernova Remnant and Molecular Cloud Interaction Environments Using Class I Methanol Masers, Bridget McEwen

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Monitoring the Long Wavelength Transient Sky with the LWA1 Telescope, Kenneth S. Obenberger

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Extending the Reach of Directional Dark Matter Experiments Through Novel Detector Technologies, Nguyen S. Phan

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Single Particle Tracking: Analysis Techniques for Live Cell Nanoscopy., Peter K. Relich

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Statistics of Epidemics in Networks by Passing Messages, Munik Shrestha

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The Smoluchowski equation in population dynamics and the spread of infection, Satomi Sugaya

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Resting-state Connectivity Dynamics in the Human Brain using High-speed fMRI, Kishore Vakamudi

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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A High Resolution Study of the Magnetic Fields in the Centaurus Cluster, Caleb Grimes

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Rydberg Excitation of Single Atoms for Applications in Quantum Information and Metrology, Aaron Hankin

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Measures of Nonclassical Correlations and Quantum-Enhanced Interferometry, Matthias Dominik Lang

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The Arecibo L-Band Feed Array Zone of Avoidance Survey, Travis McIntyre

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Mitigating Backgrounds with a Novel Thin-Film Cathode in the DRIFT-IId Dark Matter Detector, Eric H. Miller

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Internal Spin Control, Squeezing and Decoherence in Ensembles of Alkali Atomic Spins, Leigh Norris

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High Data-Rate Atom Interferometry for Measuring Dynamic Inertial Conditions, Akash Rakholia

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Third-harmonic generation for efficient frequency conversion and microscopic imaging, Cristina Rodriguez

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Loading an Equidistant Ion Chain in a Ring Shaped Surface Trap and Anomalous Heating Studies with a High Optical Access Trap, Boyan Tabakov

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Galactic Cosmic Ray Transport in the Heliosphere: 1963-2013, Roger Ygbuhay

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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A Study of Charge Transport: Correlated Energetic Disorder in Organic Semiconductors, and the Fragment Hamiltonian, Jonathan Allen

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Open Systems Dynamics for Propagating Quantum Fields, Ben Baragiola

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Topological Code Architectures for Quantum Computation, Christopher Cesare

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The Effect of Dynamical Image Forces on The Transport Properties of Charge Carriers and Excitons in Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures, Charles Cherqui

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Particle Correlations in Bose-Einstein Condensates, Zhang Jiang

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Accessing Gluon Polarization Through the J/\u03c8 Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry in Polarized pp Collisions at PHENIX, James Aaron Key

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Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor, Robert Mesler

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Evidence for the Heavy Baryon Resonance State Lambda_b^*0 Observed with the CDF II Detector, and Studies of New Particle Tracking Technologies Using the LANSCE Proton Beam, Prabhakar Palni

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Discovery of the Bc(2S) Meson and Development of Pixel Detectors for Future Particle Collider Experiments, Wang Rui