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Semi-Analytic Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows in General Gravity
(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 ... -
Sensing the shape of spacetime: detector response and entanglement harvesting in curved space
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)This thesis seeks to understand what information Unruh-DeWitt detectors can gain about the structure of spacetime. By coupling to the quantum state of a field on a curved space, the detectors can gain information about ... -
A sensitive search for dark energy through chameleon scalar fields using neutron interferometry
(IOP Publishing, 2015-01-22)The physical origin of the dark energy, which is postulated to cause the accelerated expansion rate of the universe, is one of the major open questions of cosmology. A large subset of theories postulate the existence of a ... -
Setup and Design of a Cryogenic Testing Station with Focus on Characterization of Superconducting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)The goal of my thesis was to construct a general purpose cryostat, capable of measuring multiple devices at 100mK. This included modifying an existing SHASTA model 106 Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (ADR) by adding ... -
Setup of Dry Cryostat for Measurements on Superconducting Microwave Resonators
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)A cryogen-free cryostat was set up in order to perform measurements at ultra low temperatures. The setup involved the removal of an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) and replacing it with a dilution refrigerator ... -
Shape dynamics and Mach's principles: Gravity from conformal geometrodynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)We develop a new approach to classical gravity starting from Mach's principles and the idea that the local shape of spatial configurations is fundamental. This new theory, shape dynamics, is equivalent to general relativity ... -
The Shape of Dark Matter Haloes: Results from Weak Lensing
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-25)Dark matter haloes are expected to have a triaxial shape, appearing elliptical in projection. Understanding the orientation of these dark matter haloes, and how they are aligned, has implications for theories of structure ... -
Signatures of New Physics from the Primordial Universe
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)During inflation quantum fluctuations of the field driving inflation, known as inflaton, were stretched by inflationary expansion to galactic size scales or even larger. A possible implication of inflation -- if it is ... -
Silicon avalanche photodiodes for satellite based quantum communication
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Single photons detectors are required for applications like quantum key distribution and testing Bell's inequalities. Silicon avalanche photodiodes (Si APD's) have advantages like low dark count rate. This thesis aims to ... -
Simple and Accurate Calibration of the Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)This work improves on a standard method used to calibrate χ, the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, in experimental systems. The common method is to fit the order-disorder transition (ODT) of symmetric diblock copolymer ... -
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 ... -
Simulating quantum matter through lattice field theories
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-16)Quantum many-body systems are comprised of complex networks of microscopic interactions that work together to produce novel collective phases and phenomena. For strongly-interacting systems, the connection between the ... -
Simulation and mitigation of noise in Rydberg atom systems using quantum optimal control
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-18)We design a quantum optimal control protocol to mitigate the noise in Rydberg atom systems. -
Simulation methods for the temporal and frequency dynamics of optical communication systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-01)I examine two methods for modeling the temporal dynamics of optical communication networks that rapidly and accurately simulate the statistics of unlikely but physically significant system configurations. First, I implement ... -
Simulations of semiconductor laser using non-equilibrium Green's functions method
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-11)A novel method of simulating edge-emitting semiconductor lasers in a non-equilibrium steady-state is developed. The simulation is based on a non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. The Dyson equation (central ... -
Single Killing Vector Gauss-Bonnet Boson Stars and Single Killing Vector Hairy Black Holes in D>5 Odd Dimensions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)I construct anti-de Sitter boson stars in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a (D-1)/(2)-tuplet of complex massless scalar field both perturbativelyand numerically in D=5,7,9,11 dimensions. Due to the choice of ... -
Single photon measurements: from spin-orbit lattices to ultrafast pulses
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)Single photons are naturally suited to quantum information processes as they can carry entanglement in multiple degrees of freedom and maintain coherence easily. In order to fully harness single photons for this use, it ... -
Single-photon detectors for long distance quantum communications
(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 ... -
Small-polaron variable-range hopping in quasi-two-dimensional materials: application to PrBa2Cu3-xGax07-y
(Taylor & Francis, 1999-01)We have developed a theory for variable-rangehopping (VRH) due to small polarons in quasi-two-dimensionalsystems at high temperatures.We included the effects of temperature, electric fields, magnetic fields and scattering ... -
Solvent-Induced Nanoscopic Surface Morphology on Polymer Thin Films
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)Polymer thin films are studied extensively due to their important applications in the fields of material coatings, biomedical devices, nanoelectronics, and more. Many of these applications directly depend on the surface ...