Browsing Theses by Subject "condensed matter physics"
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Aspects of Anomaly in Condensed Matter Physics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-30)Anomalies have proven to be an important tool for unraveling the enigmatic properties of strongly-coupled condensed matter systems. Especially, it provides powerful constraints on the emergibility problem, i.e., whether a ... -
Development of III-V Semiconductor Surface Quantum Wells for Hybrid Superconducting Device Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-20)This thesis concerns the materials development of both InSb/InAlSb and InAs/AlGaSb surface quantum wells: Two of the most promising platforms for the study of proximity-induced superconductivity in semiconductors with ... -
Electronic Transport Properties in Single-layer CVD graphene
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-23)Graphene is a two-dimensional material of carbon atoms possessing a metallic nature and the low-energy quasiparticles behave as massless Dirac fermions. The unique electronic properties of graphene inspire many researches ... -
Inverse Partial Fluorescence Yield Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful probe of electronic and spatial structure that has been at the heart of many advances in physics, biology, chemistry, engineering and the earth sciences. Unfortunately, the ... -
Simulating Many-Body States of Light and Matter with Tensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)When Feynman originally proposed the concept of a quantum computer, his purpose was to perform quantum simulation of complex materials. It is thus a key requirement that quantum resources can emulate physical processes ... -
Spin-Spin Correlations in the CuAlCr₄S₈ Breathing Pyrochlore
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)Frustrated magnetic systems, whose behaviour is influenced by competing interactions between magnetic spins, have been an active area of research. There is a special class of materials called breathing pyrochlores, whose ... -
Superconducting Proximity Effect in Nanowire Josephson Junctions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-13)Semiconducting nanowires contacted with superconductors are an interesting class of hybrid mesoscopic devices, in which charge transport is quantum mechanical due to the confinement potential of the nanowire, as well as ... -
Topological Order and Universal Properties of Gapped Quantum Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-15)Phases of gapped quantum liquids are topologically ordered and have very interesting physical features that are completely robust against any local perturbation that do not close the bulk energy gap. These universal ...