The main contributions of this thesis to the field of ultrashort pulse measurement are a new set of experimental tools to measure the spatio-temporal fields of femtosecond pulses, and a new simplified formalism to describe ...

This thesis contains two major components of research: numerical simulation of optical-parametric amplification cross correlation of Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (OPA-XFROG) and numerical simulation of GRENOUILLE and ...

This thesis focuses on the analysis of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) evolution in ultracold superfluid Fermi gases when the interaction between atoms is varied. The tuning of ...

Using the method of breaking circular symmetry and the subsequent symmetry restoration via projection techniques, we calculate the ground-state energies and excitation spectra of N-electrons confined in parabolic quantum ...

Nanoscale biological systems operate in the presence of overwhelming viscous drag and thermal diffusion, thus invalidating the use of macroscopically oriented thinking to explain such systems. Rectified Brownian motion ...

In the past several decades the technology for the creation and use of ultrashort pulses has progressed tremendously. Now, it is possible to generate laser pulses as short as a few femtoseconds in duration, and such pulses ...

Rigid rotor models were investigated with constraints from data for even-even nuclei. Specifically, from precision gamma-ray intensity measurements for 166-Er (from 166m-Ho and 166-Tm beta decays); from B(E2) systematics; ...

This thesis consists of two distinct components: (1) Spin-polarized electron transport through aluminum array nanoparticles, (2) A single electric relaxation process in Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) nanoparticles. ...

Confinement effect on semiconductor nanowires properties. Alexis Nduwimana 100 pages Directed by Dr. Mei-Yin Chou We study the effect of confinement ...