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Exploring Neural Correlates of Flexible Cognition During a Complex Decision Making Task
Efficiently solving complex decision making tasks typically arises from the use of schemas, abstract structures that organize experience and guide integration of novel information. There is a wealth of knowledge related ... -
Exploring the phases of 2+1 dimensional gauge theories through bosonization, holography & more
The dynamics of 2+1 dimensional gauge theories offer insight into the exciting interplay between topology and physics. With the addition of Chern-Simons terms to the action, one can engineer conformal field theories which ... -
Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of the Helicity Injected Torus (HIT-SI) Spheromak Experiment with the NIMROD Code
(2013-11-14)A comparative study of 3-D pressureless resistive (single-fluid) magnetohydrodynamic (rMHD) and 3-D pressureless two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (2fl-MHD) models of the Helicity Injected Torus experiment (HIT-SI) is presented. ... -
Extended Search for Axion Dark Matter with ADMX
The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle that came out of a solution to the Strong-CP problem in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The properties of the axion also make it a highly compelling candidate for dark matter. ... -
FASER tracker performance and electron energy resolution in the FASERv pilot detector
In collider experiments, very light particles are produced in the far-forward direction with small angle relative to the beam axis and can travel a long distance before decaying. The ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER) is ... -
Finite-beta simulations of HIT-SI and HIT-SI3 using the NIMROD code
The Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive helicity injection (HIT-SI) and HIT-SI3 experiments are a pair of devices that form and sustain spheromak plasmas through the use of Steady Inductive Helicity Injection ... -
Fission dynamics in a microscopic theory
This thesis is concerned with the application of the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to investigate the fission dynamics of atomic nucleus, which is still one of the most complicated problem in nuclear ... -
Fission within the Time Dependent Superfluid Local Density Approximation
This thesis investigates fission within the framework of the time- dependent superfluid local density approximation (TDSLDA), the most complete microscopic theory to describe low energy nuclear phenomena currently available. ... -
Fixing the Standard Model: From Dark Matter to the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
Since its foundation in the 20th century, the Standard Model has been immensely powerful in explaining many particle physics phenomena. With the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, the Standard Model seems to be ... -
Formal Developments for Lattice QCD with Applications to Hadronic Systems
In order to make reliable predictions with controlled uncertainties for a wide range of nuclear phenomena, a theoretical bottom-up approach, by which hadrons emerge from the underlying theory of strong interactions, quantum ... -
From Quantum Gravity to Combinatorial Hives: Addressing Longstanding Puzzles with Novel Approaches
A thesis in two parts, this manuscript concerns the applications of contemporary techniques in optimization, network theory, combinatorial topology, and other branches of discrete mathematics to longstanding problems in ... -
Functionality, Robustness and Control of Nonlinear Network Dynamics: Modeling and Understanding the C. elegans Connectome
Networks of many nonlinearly-coupled dynamical components are ubiquitous in the physical sciences, but often difficult to characterize. However, their dynamics are often low-dimensional, being dominated by a few functional, ... -
Gas Adsorption on Suspended Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Rare gas adsorption was studied on suspended individual single walled carbon nanotubes and graphene. The devices were fabricated as field effect transistors. Adsorption on graphene was studied through two-terminal ... -
Getting the most out of nanopores
Over the past three decades, the fields of biophysics and biotechnology have seen an era of unprecedented growth, bolstered by the development of new experimental techniques. Prominent within these techniques are ... -
Greedy algorithms for physics-informed sparse sensor selection
In this era of big data, many systems of interest to researchers are too large to fully sample. Thus, significant downsampling is necessary, but determining the best locations for optimal full-state reconstructions is an ... -
Harnessing cell-to-cell variations to probe bacterial structure and biophysics
Advances in microscopy and biotechnology have given us novel insights into cellular biology and physics. While bacteria were long considered to be relatively unstructured, the development of fluorescence microscopy techniques, ... -
Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Mixtures of Ytterbium and Lithium
This thesis reports on experimental observation of heteronuclear Feshbach resonances between ultracold alkaline-earth-like Yb and alkali Li atoms, revealing methods for experimental control of heteronuclear scattering ... -
Hidden Sector: Three Different Ways
(2013-11-14)This thesis is a compilation of three projects that explore the consequences of different Hidden Sector models in various experimental fields. The first project proposes the Hidden Sector is populated by just one U(1) ... -
High Resolution Single-Molecule Enzyme Dynamics Using Nanopores
DNA is a molecule that contains the genetic information of all living organisms. DNA provides the instructions that the cell uses to construct the proteins which carry out the complex functions required for life to thrive. ... -
High-resolution spectroscopy in p115sInp+s and prospects for an indium ion optical frequency reference
(2007)The indium ion is among the candidates for optical frequency references because of the comparative simplicity of its laser cooling and trapping, the high quality factor (Q =1.5 x 1015) of its clock transition, and the ...