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Coherent interactions and thermometry in a trapped ion quantum simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-27)Quantum simulators are useful tools to study exotic systems which may be otherwise intractable for a traditional computer. In particular, the trapped-ion platform has been a leading candidate for use in quantum simulation ... -
Collective Dynamics in NMR and Quantum Noise
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-17)We introduced an open quantum system model to describe the statistical fluctuations of a spin ensemble in NMR. The model considers an ensemble measurement where the detection coil does not distinguish spins, and accounts ... -
Collective Spin-Cavity Ensembles and the Protection of Higher-dimensional Quantum Information
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)The development of devices leveraging their quantum nature to outperform classical analogues has been an ongoing effort for many decades now. In this thesis we investigate two facets related to this effort, albeit at ... -
Communication: Molecular-level insights into asymmetric triblock copolymers: Network and phase development
(AIP publishing, 2014-10-01)Molecularly asymmetric triblock copolymers progressively grown from a parent diblock copolymer can be used to elucidate the phase and property transformation from diblock to network-forming triblock copolymer. In this ... -
Compact Two-color Ultrafast Yb:fiber Chirped Pulse Amplifiers and Mid-infrared Generation Based on Difference Frequency Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-18)A powerful mid-infrared frequency comb in the 2-20 μm range plays a very important role in the development of optical frequency metrology, spectroscopy and other fields of technology. However, there is a big gap in the ... -
The Compilation of Reversible Circuits and a New Optimization Game
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)The focus of this thesis is reversible circuit compilation. We will explore the use of pebble games for circuit analysis. The usefulness of this technique is demonstrated by finding a new space bound for the Karatsuba ... -
Complexity in the AdS/CFT correspondence
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)The main goal of this thesis is to carefully analyze aspects of the gravitational quantities conjectured to be dual to quantum complexity in the AdS/CFT correspondence. The two most promising candidates for such holographic ... -
Comprehensive Theoretical Studies of Guided Modes in Multilayer Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides
(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 ... -
Computational Methods for the Measurement of Entanglement in Condensed Matter Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-19)At the interface of quantum information and condensed matter physics, the study of entanglement in quantum many-body systems requires a new toolset which combines concepts from each. This thesis introduces a set of ... -
The computational power of many-body systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)Many-body systems are well known throughout physics to be hard problems to exactly solve, but much of this is folklore resulting from the lack of an analytic solution to these systems. This thesis attempts to classify the ... -
Computationally Efficient Field-Theoretic Simulations for Block Copolymer Melts
(American Chemical Society, 2019-11-12)Field-theoretic simulations (FTS) provide fluctuation corrections to self-consistent field theory (SCFT) by simulating its field-theoretic Hamiltonian rather than applying the saddle-point approximation. Although FTS work ... -
Concepts and methods for benchmarking quantum computers
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-09)Quantum computers have the potential to bring about a new age of technology, but in order for them to become a reality, the elephant in the room must be addressed, quantum errors. The complexity of quantum errors grows ... -
Confined Quantum Molecular Degrees of Freedom
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-22)Motivated by recent experimental measurements of the degeneracy lifting of the rotational ground state of molecular ortho-H2 con ned inside the fullerene cage C60 and, more generally, motivated by the physics of con ned ... -
Conformation of 2-fold Anisotropic Molecules Confined on a Spherical Surface
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-09)Anisotropic molecules confined on a spherical or other curved surface can display coupled positional and orientational orderings, which make possible applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and material science. ... -
Conical Designs and Categorical Jordan Algebraic Post-Quantum Theories
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)Physical theories can be characterized in terms of their state spaces and their evolutive equations. The kinematical structure and the dynamical structure of finite dimensional quantum theory are, in light of the ... -
Constraining the Properties of Sagittarius A* with the Event Horizon Telescope
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a primary target for testing strong gravity, jet formation and black hole accretion for the the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Motivated by continued improvements of the observations from the ... -
Constructing Exact Correlators In N=4 SYM Using Integrability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)This thesis is devoted to the study of correlation functions in N = 4 superconformal Yang- Mills theory. We focus on a class of four point functions for which we achieve formal results at finite coupling and explicit ... -
Construction of a Shielded Thermal Hall Measurement Device
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)A shielded thermal Hall experimental setup is being constructed and is nearing completion. An existing conventional thermal conductivity experiment was retrofit to perform thermal Hall measurements, which included the ... -
Contextuality and Ontological Models: A Tale of Desire and Disappointment
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Since being defined by Kochen and Specker, and separately by Bell, contextuality has been proposed as one of the key phenomena that distinguishing quantum theory from classical theories. However, with the rise of quantum ... -
Continuous Tensor Networks, Conformal Field Theory and Holography
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-23)Tensor network methods are playing a central role in multiple disciplines of modern quantum physics, such as condensed matter physics, quantum information and quantum gravity. Based on renormalization group (RG) ideas, ...