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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 ... -
Creating and probing laser-cooled atomic ensembles inside a hollow-core optical fibre
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)A laser-cooled atomic ensemble confined inside a hollow-core optical fiber offers a unique platform for enhanced light-matter interactions and their applications. At the same time, transferring a cloud of laser-cooled ... -
Crystallization Studies of Highly Monodisperse Oligomeric Poly(Ethylene Oxide)
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-13)Poly(ethylene oxide) is one of the most intensively studied polymers in terms of crystallization, because of its linear structure. In this thesis the chapters are organized in a self-contained fashion, with a general ... -
Customized nonlinearity shaping in imperfect or variable waveguides
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-31)Generation of high-quality single photons via heralded parametric downconversion re- quires careful design of spectral correlations in down-converted photon pairs. One step in this design process involves customized ... -
Cylindrical colloids on a fluid membrane
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)We theoretically study the adhesion and membrane-mediated interaction of cylindrical colloids to a flat fluid membrane. There are two ways to approach this problem. The first way, based on energy, requires finding the ...