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Equilibrium sampling is at the core of computational thermodynamics, aiding our understanding of various phenomena in the natural sciences including phase coexistence, molecular solvation, and protein folding. Despite the ...

Fabricating and measuring sub-5 nanometer features brings to light several pressing issues in future semiconductor industry manufacturing and dimensional metrology. This dissertation presents a feasible process to create ...

According to quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the release of quarks and gluons creates a new form of matter, the quark gluon plasma (QGP), expected to occur in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at high energies. The structure ...

How the brain processes information is poorly understood. It has been suggested that the imbalance of excitation and inhibition (E/I) can significantly affect information processing in the brain. Neuronal avalanches, a ...

The superposition approximations (SAs), first proposed in the distribution function theories of liquids, are a family of approximations to a multivariate probability distribution function (pdf) in terms of its lower order ...

Since early days of their discovery, it has been realized that Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) have an unusually high thermal conductivity. Unfortunately, the amount of heat they can transfer from one medium to another can be ...

This thesis describes the implications of sum-frequency generation in both laser safety and quantum telecommunications applications. Green laser pointer technology uses frequency doubling of invisible 1064 nm infrared ...

The directed flow of charged particles at midrapidity is measured in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV relative to the collision Event Plane, defined by the participant plane using various subdetectors. The ...

Two-color photoionization has been widely used as a versatile tool for intense, broadband terahertz (THz) radiation generation. In this scheme, an ultrashort laser's fundamental and its second harmonic pulses are co-focused ...

I report results of point-contact spectroscopy (PCS) measurements preformed on a variety of superconductors which are predicted to exhibit unconventional Cooper pairing mechanisms. Point-contact spectra of the iron pnictide ...