• Ice Fishing for Neutrinos 

  Halzen, Francis (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-09-12)

  The IceCube project at the South Pole has melted eighty-six holes over 1.5 miles deep in the Antarctic icecap for use as astronomical observatories. The project recently discovered a flux of neutrinos reaching us from the ...

• Near-field Microwave Imaging of Electrostatically Modulated Quantum Materials 

  Lai, Keji (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-29)

  Field-effect transistors (FETs) are the backbone of modern semiconductor devices. The same concept of electrostatic modulation of carrier densities has also been very fruitful for the exploration of electronic properties ...

• Investigating non-equilibrium phenomena in spinor antiferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensates 

  Vinit, Anshuman (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-03)

  This thesis discusses non-equilibrium phenomena in antiferromagnetic spinor quantum gases. We investigate, both experimentally and theoretically, the quench dynamics of antiferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates ...

• Improved growth, ordering, and characterization of sidewall epitaxial graphene nanoribbons 

  Nevius, Meredith Swegan (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-06-03)

  One material that has drawn much attention as a viable supplementary material to silicon is graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon in a hexagonal lattice. Graphene has many desirable qualities, including massless Dirac ...

• A robophysics approach to bipedal walking in granular media 

  Kingsbury, Mark A (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-19)

  Humanoid robots will need capabilities to traverse environments ranging from factory floors to disaster areas. However, most of today's devices fail when faced with more complex ground conditions such as loose sand. To ...

• Infection networks, life-history traits, and dynamics in complex virus-microbe systems 

  Jover, Luis F (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-10)

  Bacteria and their viral parasites, i.e., phages, are found in natural environments from oceans, soils to the human gut. Phages are key players in ecosystems responsible for a significant portion of microbial mortality. ...

• General Relativistic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: a Multi-Scale Formulation of Fluid Flow in Numerical Relativity 

  Kinsey, Matthew Christopher (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-29)

  With the recent first detection of gravitational waves, numerical relativity provides us with the most promising tools of astronomical discovery, particularly for strong dynamical gravity phenomena where analytic solutions ...

• Theoretical Aspects of Ultra-Cold Fermions in the Presence of Artificial Spin-Orbit Coupling 

  Kurkcuoglu, Doga Murat (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)

  Main purpose of this thesis is to present a discussion of the effects of artificial spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman fields in fermionic ultra-cold atoms. Part of the work described here is inspired by the experimental ...

• QUANTUM CONTROL FOR TIME-DEPENDENT NOISE 

  Kabytayev, Chingiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)

  The main obstacles to implementing ideal quantum operations are unwanted interactions of quantum systems with the environment and noise in control fields. This problem can be tackled by methods of quantum control. Among ...

• Ice-Cream 

  Birnbaum, Molly; Coupland, John; Souza, Daniel (2016-05-07)

  This year, the Squishy Physics Saturday will focus on the exciting science of “Ice-cream”. Almost everyone loves the silky smooth taste of chocolate melting on their tongue. You might be surprised that a great deal of ...

• Bowen-type initial data for simulations of neutron stars in binary systems 

  Clark, Michael C. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-12)

  A new method for generating initial data for simulations of neutron stars in binary systems. The construction of physically relevant initial data is crucial to accurate assessment of gravitational wave signals relative to ...

• Modeling and control of locomotion in complex environments 

  Zhang, Tingnan (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)

  In this dissertation, we developed predictive models for legged and limbless locomotion on dry, homogeneous granular media. The vertical plane Resistive Force Theory (RFT) for frictional granular fluids accurately predicted ...

• Nanostructured graphene on Si-terminated SiC and its electronic properties 

  Li, Yuntao (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-10)

  Graphene nanostructures directly grown on SiC are appealing for their potential application to nano-scale electronic devices. In particular, epitaxial sidewall graphene nanoribbons have been a promising candidate in ballistic ...

• Advanced scanning probe lithography and its parallelization 

  Lu, Xi (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-20)

  Nanofabrication is the process of making functional structures with arbitrary patterns having nanoscale dimensions. Nanofabrication has been widely implemented in industry for improving microelectronic devices and data ...

• Investigations of the spreading and closure mechanisms of phagocytosis in J774a.1 macrophages 

  Kovari, Daniel T. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-03)

  Phagocytosis is the process by which cells engulf foreign bodies. It is the hallmark behavior of white blood cells, being the process through which those cells ingest and degrade pathogens and debris. To date a large amount ...

• Electronic, thermoelectric and vibrational properties of silicon nanowires and copper chalcogenides 

  Zhuo, Keenan (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-03-31)

  Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) and the copper chalcogenides, namely copper sulfide (Cu2S) and selenide Cu2Se, have diverse applications in renewable energy technology. For example, SiNWs which have direct band gaps unlike bulk ...

• A point contact spectroscopy study of topological superconductivity 

  Chen, Xunchi (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-01)

  The study of topological superconductivity has been at the forefront of condensed matter physics for the past few years. Topological superconductors are predicted to have odd parity pairing and host so called Majorana ...

• Tail use improves soft substrate performance in models of early vertebrate land locomotors 

  McInroe, Benjamin; Astley, Henry C.; Gong, Chaohui; Kawano, Sandy M.; Schiebel, Perrin E.; Rieser, Jennifer M.; Choset, Howie; Blob, Richard W.; Goldman, Daniel I. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-27)

  In the evolutionary transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial environment, ancient vertebrates (e.g. early tetrapods) faced the challenges of terrestrial locomotion on flowable substrates (e.g. sand and mud) of variable ...

• Statistical mechanics of the phase transition to turbulence: zonal flows, ecological collapse and extreme value statistics 

  Goldenfeld, Nigel (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-21)

  How do fluids become turbulent as their flow velocity is increased? In recent years, careful experiments in pipes and Taylor-Couette systems have revealed that the lifetime of transient turbulent regions in a fluid appears ...

• The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time 

  Carroll, Sean M. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-11)

  One of the most obvious facts about the universe is that the past is different from the future. We can remember yesterday, but not tomorrow; we can turn an egg into an omelet, but can't turn an omelet into an egg. That's ...

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