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Physics Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains some of the theses and dissertations produced by students in the University of Oregon Physics Graduate Program. Paper copies of these and other dissertations and theses are available through the UO Libraries.
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Metzner, Jeremy
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Encoding qubits in the electronic states of atoms has enabled the ability toperform computations, sense the environment, and gain a deeper understanding of
other physical systems through quantum simulation. In the trapped ...
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Fellers, Deion
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The FASER experiment at the LHC is designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point that travel in the far-forward direction. FASER is sensitive ...
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El Demery, Mostafa
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The use of temporal-mode encoding for quantum information science has gained interest due to its robustness to environmental perturbation and suitability for integrated photonics. Temporal-mode transformations, analogous ...
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Klaiss, Rachael
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Integrated quantum information technologies such as photonic circuits, quantum transducers, and magnetic sensors require robust single-photon sources in precise locations. Solid-state single photon emitters (SPEs) hosted ...
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Edelman, Bruce
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Gravitational Waves (GWs) have quickly emerged as powerful, indispensabletools for studying gravity in the strong field regime and high-energy astrophysical
phenomena since they were first directly detected by the Laser ...
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Bradshaw, Layne
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
The discovery of the Higgs boson confirmed that the Standard Model is the correct description of nature below some high energy scale. However, we know the Standard Model is incomplete and have yet to find significant ...
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Villiger, Nathan
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Long-range dispersal of offspring is ubiquitous in nature, from seeds that disperse random distances thanks to being carried by animals, to pollen that gets carried long distances by the wind, and even viruses that spread ...
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Carter, Brittany
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Networks of nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) resonators are useful analogs for a variety of many- body systems and enable impactful applications in sensing, phononics, and mechanical information processing. Two main challenges ...
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Merfeld, Kara
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
The third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo (O3) took place fromApril 1st, 2019 to September 30th, 2019, and from November 1st, 2019 to March
27th, 2020. The multi-messenger astronomy efforts during O3 included ...
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Luongo, Nicholas
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
This dissertation presents the development of a boosted analysis in the searchfor the resonant production of a new heavy scalar X decaying to two Higgs bosons,
which is predicted by some Beyond the Standard Model theories. ...
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Moore, Isam
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
The viability of quantum computers depends on the development of scalable platforms with low error rates. Our "Oregon Ions" group has studied one such scalable architecture proposal including the limitations placed on logic ...
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Kittell, Justin
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Collectively, a colony of ants can execute complex and highly organized behaviors, not least of which is the formation of ant ‘paths’ - the steady bidirectional flow of individuals and resources that provides the colony ...
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Sun, Wenqian
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Thin elastic shells are ubiquitous in nature. Indentation measurements (i.e., poking) provide a useful way for probing mechanical properties of these shell structures.
While spherical and cylindrical shells made of isotropic ...
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Rowland, Conor
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
For well over a century, neuroscientists have been studying the inherent ties between neuronal morphology and functionality. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, in his work that ultimately awarded him a Nobel Prize in 1906, established ...
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Moraski, Rich
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
The global market for power solely for data center usage is estimated to be $12.4 billion by 2027[1]. In 2021, data center electricity consumption was ∼400 TW h, representing almost 2% of the global energy demand[2]. Ongoing ...
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Gledhill, Galen
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
This dissertation presents two searches for signals of dark matter in an integrated luminosity of 139 ifb of proton-proton collision data collected at a center of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ...
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Pauls, Abigail
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Silicon vacancy centers (SiVs) in diamond are local defects in the diamond lattice that behave as atomic-like systems with electronic energy levels and optical transitions. The SiV's optical properties and long spin ...
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Landes, Tiemo
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
We investigate the role of time-frequency entanglement in nonlinear interactions of both low- and high-gain broadband squeezed vacuum. Our work is motivated by the large body of research proposing the use of time-frequency ...
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Tian, Liguang
(1994-06)
In this dissertation we study the interaction of a single atom with a single mode of the electromagnetic field in an optical cavity. We emphasize strong coupling conditions, where the dipole coupling strength is larger ...
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Sundarraman, Deepika
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)
Animal intestines harbor hundreds of microbial species that play a crucial role in host health and development. Despite their importance, many questions about the rules that govern community assembly in these complex ...
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