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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, ... -
Control and Readout of High-Dimensional Trapped Ion Qudits
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-07)The trapped ion platform is one of the quantum computing platforms that is at the forefront for realizing large-scale quantum information processing, which is crucial for practically actualizing the advantages of quantum ... -
Control of Light-Matter Interactions in Classical and Quantum Optics
(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 ... -
Control techniques in spin based quantum computation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-11)Working on quantum systems entail different interests, for example, working on fundamental understanding of quantum systems also lay foundation for better quantum computation techniques. A test for whether a system is ... -
Controlling Quantum Information Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-18)Quantum information and quantum computation are linked by a common mathematical and physical framework of quantum mechanics. The manipulation of the predicted dynamics and its optimization is known as quantum control. Many ... -
Correlation Functions of Heavy Operators in AdS/CFT
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)In this thesis we investigate the holographic dual description of correlation functions of heavy operators in conformal field theory. These heavy operators have scaling dimension that scales with the CFT central charge in ... -
Correlation harvesting in the presence of Unruh and Hawking effects
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-14)Quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime is a study of quantum fields under the influence of the relativistic motion of particles or spacetime curvature. The famous outcomes of this subject are the Unruh and Hawking ... -
Cosmic Acceleration As Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)The discovery of cosmic acceleration has prompted the need for a new understanding of cosmology. The presence of this acceleration is often described as the dark energy problem or the Lambda problem.The simplest explanation ... -
Cosmic Atoms: from Causal Sets to Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-19)This thesis is a collection of works which seek to address certain aspects of the following puzzles: quantum gravity, initial conditions of the universe, the cosmological constant problem, and baryonic processes in clusters ... -
Cosmological beam plasma instabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Blazars are the main source of extragalactic very high energy gamma-rays. These gamma rays annihilate on the extragalactic background light, producing electron-positron pair beams with TeV energies. The pair beams are very ... -
Cosmological Results and Implications in Effective DGP
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-26)We study a simple extension of the decoupling limit of boundary effctive actions for the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati model, by covariantizing the π lagrangian and coupling to gravity in the usual way. This extension agrees ... -
Cosmological Tests of Causal Set Phenomenology
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)Causal Set Theory is an approach to Quantum Gravity that postulates that the fundamental structure of a spacetime manifold is a Lorentz Invariant discrete structure endowed with a causal order from which the geometry and ... -
Cosmology with Cluster Structural Properties
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-23)Galaxy clusters are massive objects composed of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, hot gas and an extended dark matter (DM) halo. They are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. As such, they result ...