Biophysics books

Understanding the behavior of plasmas in magnetic confinement fusion devices typically requires accurate knowledge...  Read More >>

Using large multiwavelength datasets, we study obscured AGN in the distant universe that have been missed via traditional...  Read More >>

The US Department of Energy must clean up a large number of sites with groundwater and soils polluted with multiple...  Read More >>

This thesis explores the physics of low-dimensional electronic conductors using two materials systems, carbon nanotubes...  Read More >>

This dissertation starts with an overview of the physics of heavy stable charged particles, which arise in various...  Read More >>

The discovery of supersymmetry is one of the major goals of the current experiments at the Tevatron and in proposed...  Read More >>

We report on a search for Standard Model (SM) production of Higgs to WW* in the two charged lepton (e, mu) and two...  Read More >>

Comparisons between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements of vibrational fundamentals and isotopic...  Read More >>

Over the past two decades, submillimeter and terahertz astronomy has grown rapidly and become an important new window...  Read More >>

We study the role of correlations with the environment as the source of non-Markovian quantum evolutions. We first...  Read More >>

Multimode interference (MMI) in optical fibers has been studied and its applications in optical fiber lasers and...  Read More >>

The study of turbulence has been dominated historically by a bottom-up approach, with a much stronger emphasis...  Read More >>

Extragalactic X-ray studies provide unique opportunities for studying accreting black holes. In particular, they...  Read More >>

Mathematics is central to a professional physicist's work and, by extension, to a physics student's studies. It...  Read More >>

How a core collapse supernova successfully explodes is only partially understood. Computer models indicate that...  Read More >>

Milagro is a water-Cherenkov detector that observes the extended air showers produced by cosmic gamma rays of energies...  Read More >>

PMIn this dissertation, the ferromagnetic properties of the diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As will be explored....  Read More >>

This thesis examines the behavior of dc SQUID phase qubits in terms of their proposed use in a quantum computer....  Read More >>

Data from the Swift mission have now shown that flares are a common component of Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows, appearing...  Read More >>

The idea of effective field theory (EFT) was developed decades ago in low-energy strong-interaction---hadronic and...  Read More >>

This dissertation details the synthesis and properties of thin films and devices based on multiferroic materials....  Read More >>

This work is a study exploring the extent of suitability of static first-principles calculations for studying diffusion...  Read More >>

Standard first-principles total energy and force calculations were extended to the calculations of harmonic force...  Read More >>

Liquid 4He enters the superfluid state and flows without friction below 2.176 K at zero pressure limit. A similar...  Read More >>

I use tools and concepts from non-equilibrium statistical physics and polymer physics to describe the large-scale...  Read More >>