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This community features research by faculty and students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University. Research in this department deals with nanotechnology, quantum technologies and quantum degenerate gases, computational simulation, biophysical understanding, meteor impacts, planetary systems, and the warping of spacetime near black holes (to name a few examples).
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Solute-solute interactions in intermetallic compounds studied using perturbed angular correlation of gamma rays
(2017-05)Interactions between pairs of solute atoms dissolved in a binary intermetallic compound were studied. Perturbed angular correlation of gamma rays (PAC) was used to detect solute atoms next to impurity PAC probe atoms in ... -
Extending Miedema’s Semi-Empirical Model to Predict Defect Site Preferences and Formation Enthalpies of Ordered Compounds
(2016-12)Miedema’s Semi-Empirical Model is a method in which a simple calculation provides a rough estimate of the formation enthalpy of a single defect atom (of element X) surrounded completely by a solvent element (element A). ... -
A qualitative look at the thermodynamics of ternary phase diagrams
(2016-05)In 2014, Collins’ research group embarked on experiments using Perturbed Angular Correlation (PAC) spectroscopy to measure interactions between solute atoms in ternary alloys. PAC requires a probe atom, 111In, making the ... -
Investigations of ternary alloys using perturbed angular correlations
(2015-06)The intended goal of this research was to investigate interactions between solute atoms in intermetallics using a nuclear probe method, Perturbed Angular Correlation (PAC) of gamma rays. The PAC probe, radioactive 111In, ... -
Understanding Molecular Machines: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
(2015)This dissertation concerns the study of two classes of molecular machines from a physical perspective: enzymes and membrane proteins. Though the functions of these classes of proteins are different, they each represent ... -
INVESTIGATING [X/FE], IMF AND COMPOSITENESS IN INTEGRATED MODELS
(2015)This dissertation explores several existing challenges of evolutionarystellar population synthesis models in integrated light:age-metallicity degeneracy, initial mass function (IMF), elementalabundances, and compositeness. ... -
ULTRAFAST CARRIER DYNAMICS IN THIN FILM HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON AND SILICON-GERMANIUM ALLOYS
(2015)This dissertation presents an investigation of the ultrafast carrier dynamics in thin film hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and silicon germanium alloys (a-Si_(1-x) Ge_x:H). These materials have attracted considerable ... -
Explicitly Correlated Gaussian Approach: Method Development and Application to Ultracold Few-Fermion Systems
(2013)Few-body physics plays an important role in quantum gases. For example, the lifetime of ultracold atomic gases is limited by atom losses. While atom losses are, in general, undesirable, they can be measured experimentally ... -
ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY OF SELF TRAPPED EXCITONS IN QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS
(2013)This dissertation studies the transition of electronic excitations from a delocalized state to a localized state. Such processes have a dramatic impact on optical and electronic properties and reflect fundamental interactions ... -
Atomic jump frequencies in intermetallic compounds studied using perturbing angular correlation of gamma rays
(2012-08)Atomic jump frequencies were determined in a variety of intermetallic compounds through analysis of nuclear relaxation of spectra measured using the nuclear hyperfine technique, perturbed angular correlation (PAC) of gamma ... -
Site preferences and jump frequencies of In/Cd solutes in rare earth palladium phases having the L1 sub 2 structure
(2012-07)The method of Perturbed Angular Correlation of gamma rays (PAC) was used to study site preferences of indium solutes and jump frequencies of cadmium impurities in rare-earth palladium phases RPd sub 3 which has the L1 sub ... -
Lattice locations and diffusion in intermetallic compounds explored through PAC measurements and DFT calculations
(2012-05)Site preferences of 111In/Cd impurity probe atoms were studied as a function of composition in Al3Ni and as a function of temperature in Al3Ti and Al3Zr structures using perturbed angular correlation of gamma rays (PAC). ... -
DEFECTS IN ZINC OXIDE NANOCRYSTALS
(2012)Defects in ZnO nanocrystals were investigated. While ZnO has potential for optoelectronic applications, the lack reliable p-type doping remains a major challenge. We provide evidence that ZnO nanocrystals contain uncompensated ... -
MULTI-BASELINE SEARCHES FOR STOCHASTIC SOURCES AND BLACK HOLE RINGDOWN SIGNALS IN LIGO-VIRGO DATA
(2012)We present a framework for the detection of stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) backgrounds, from cosmological and astrophysical sources, using radiometry with a network of gravitational-wave interferometers. The search ... -
Atomic Jump Frequencies in Intermetallic Compounds Studied Using Perturbed Angular Correlation of Gamma Rays
(2012)Atomic jump frequencies were determined in a variety of intermetallic compounds through analysis of nuclear relaxation of spectra measured using the nuclear hyperfine technique, perturbed angular correlation (PAC) of gamma ... -
Indium solubility in α-gallium and gallium-indium eutectic alloys studied using PAC
(2011-08)The melting temperature in α-gallium is 303K. The method of perturbed angular correlation of gamma rays (PAC) was used to determine the solubility of 111In probe atoms present at of 10-10 mole fraction. Below 303K and above ... -
EXCIMER LASER INTERACTION WITH ZINC OXIDE
(2011)When single crystal ZnO is exposed to 193-nm laser photons in vacuum at fluences below 100 mJ/cm -
MEAN-FIELD STUDIES OF DIPOLAR BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES
(2011)The behavior of polarized dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a harmonic trap has been extensively studied in the mean-field approximation. Mean-field studies show that, in contrast to $s$-wave interacting BECs, ...