• Comprehensive Theoretical Studies of Guided Modes in Multilayer Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides 

  Aldawsari, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-02)

  Plasmonic waveguides (PWs) have integrated the strength of the miniscule size of electrical-wire interconnects and the large operational bandwidth of photonic waveguides. Beyond the diffraction limit, PWs have the ability ...

• Optical aberrations and cone photoreceptor sampling during normal emmetropization and emmetropization to imposed defocus 

  Ke, Mengyuan (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-23)

  The eye grows in a coordinated fashion during normal emmetropization which results in an image close to being in focus on the retina for distance vision. Myopia results from the failure of normal emmetropization. Myopia ...

• Periodically-driven quantum many-body systems, many-body localization and machine learning 

  Ponte, Pedro (University of Waterloo, 2018-03-09)

  Despite the exponentially large amount of information required in the quantum description of many-body systems, finite size numerical simulations have paved the way for recent progress in the understanding of quantum phases ...

• Spherically Confined Polymers: Monte Carlo Simulations with Expanded Ensemble Density-of-States Method 

  Pansri, Siriporn (University of Waterloo, 2018-02-20)

  In this thesis, the Expanded Ensemble Density-of-States (EXEDOS) method - a combination of the Wang-Landau and Expanded Ensemble Monte Carlo algorithms is employed to investigate spatial conformations of a polymer chain ...

• Bohmian Mechanics: Towards Illuminating The Quantum Potential 

  Brown, Matthew (University of Waterloo, 2018-02-20)

  This thesis deals with the theoretical and experimental details of trying to understand and infer the quantum potential from Bohmian mechanics using Bohmian trajectories. In this work, some of the key components of the ...

• Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications 

  Anisimova, Elena (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)

  Quantum communications and quantum cryptography are developing rapidly during the last decades caused partly by a fast progress in quantum computing. Quantum cryptography provides an unconditionally secure way of communicating ...

• Growth of Silicon Nanowire Mechanical Oscillators for Force-Detected Magnetic Resonance Measurements 

  Liu, Xudong (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)

  This thesis describes two ways to grow silicon nanowires with the catalyst gold (Au) by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) system. One way to prepare catalyst is drop-casting gold nanoparticles solution, the other is making ...

• Testing classical and quantum theory with single photons 

  Mazurek, Michael (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)

  To date, quantum theory is the most successful physical theory that has been discovered. However, there is still the possibility that an inconsistency between experimental observations and the predictions of quantum theory ...

• Dynamics of Quantum Information of the Central Spin Problem 

  Niknam, Mohamad (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-17)

  Environmental effects on the evolution of a spin system in the context of the central spin problem, have been studied for more than 60 years. With the growing complexity of quantum information processors there is a new ...

• Control of Light-Matter Interactions in Classical and Quantum Optics 

  Othman, Anas (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)

  In this thesis, we examined a series of techniques for controlling the interaction of light with matter that could be employed to optimize or to control physical phenomena in various potential applications. Some of these ...

• Semi-Analytic Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows in General Gravity 

  Georgiev, Boris (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-05)

  The Event Horizon Telescope is capable of observing black holes on event-horizon scales and we can use it to explore deviations from General Relativity. We replicate the results of a previous study using a Newtonian ...

• Indium Thin Films in Multilayer Superconducting Quantum Circuits 

  McRae, Corey Rae (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-03)

  The superconducting quantum computer is an implementation of the quantum computer and a current leader the field in terms of performance and potential for scalability to large systems. Its two main components are the ...

• Production of Highly Monodisperse Polystyrene by Evaporative Purification 

  Zhu, Shipei (University of Waterloo, 2017-12-14)

  In this thesis, I will demonstrate a simple evaporative purification method to separate a polydisperse polystyrene with small molecular weight into highly monodisperse components (N-mers) ranging from 3-mers to 13-mers. ...

• Probing Surface Spin Interaction Dynamics using Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Quantum Sensors with High-Fidelity State-Selective Transition Control 

  Wang, Zimeng (University of Waterloo, 2017-11-21)

  As a demand from developing nanotechnology and quantum information technology based on mesoscopic material, quantum sensors with better spatial resolution and sensitivity are required. However, few material meets the ...

• An off-lattice derivation and thermodynamic consistency consideration for the Sanchez-Lacombe equation of state 

  von Konigslow, Kier (University of Waterloo, 2017-11-09)

  The application of the Sanchez-Lacombe equation of state (SL-EOS) to homogeneous polymeric mixtures is requisite for the application of some types of Self-Consistent Field Theory (SCFT) to inhomogeneous mixtures. It has ...

• Detectors, Reference Frames, and Time 

  Smith, Alexander R. H. (University of Waterloo, 2017-11-08)

  This thesis is divided into three parts. Part I investigates the behaviour of Unruh-DeWitt detectors on curved spacetimes admitting a Wightman function and the associated measurement model is identified. These detectors ...

• How are molecular crowding and the spatial organization of a biopolymer interrelated 

  Jeon, Chanil; Hyeon, Changbong; Jung, Youngkyun; Ha, Bae-Yeun (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-10-21)

  In a crowded cellular interior, dissolved biomolecules or crowders exert excluded volume effects on other biomolecules, which in turn control various processes including protein aggregation and chromosome organization. As ...

• Effects of molecular crowding and confinement on the spatial organization of a biopolymer 

  Jeon, Chanil; Jung, Youngkyun; Ha, Bae-Yeun (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016-10-25)

  A chain molecule can be entropically collapsed in a crowded medium in a free or confined space. Here, we present a unified view of how molecular crowding collapses a flexible polymer in three distinct spaces: free, ...

• A ring-polymer model shows how macromolecular crowding controls chromosome-arm organization in Escherichia coli 

  Jeon, Chanil; Jung, Youngkyun; Ha, Bae-Yeun (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-09-19)

  Macromolecular crowding influences various cellular processes such as macromolecular association and transcription, and is a key determinant of chromosome organization in bacteria. The entropy of crowders favors compaction ...

• Opposing effects of cationic antimicrobial peptides and divalent cations on bacterial lipopolysaccharides 

  Smart, Matthew; Rajagopal, Aruna; Liu, Wing-Ki; Ha, Bae-Yeun (American Physical Society, 2017-10-09)

  The permeability of the bacterial outer membrane, enclosing Gram-negative bacteria, depends on the interactions of the outer, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) layer, with surrounding ions and molecules. We present a coarse-grained ...

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