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Title: A path dependent quantum approximate optimization algorithm optimized by pairwise correlation of angles
Author: Daniel, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Given the current promise of quantum computing to increase the efficiency of optimization algorithms, it is important to utilize these quantum algorithms for useful applications. The quantum approximate optimization algorithm was recently develope...

Title: Bohmian Trajectories of Interacting Particles Trapped in a Two-dimensional Harmonic Well
Author: Keithly, Gregory
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Bohmian mechanics is an alternate formalism of quantum mechanics that posits a particle is always existent, and furthermore there is a separate entity describing a wave-like disturbance in space and time, governed by the Schrodinger equation, that...

Title: Controlled coherence plasmonic light sources
Author: Gbur, Greg, Smith, Matt
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: Through a computational model, we study the coherence converting capabilities of an array of holes in a surface plasmon-supporting metal plate, with an eye towards the creation of controlled coherence plasmonic light sources. We evaluate how the a...

Title: Evaluation of Spatial Resolution and The Non-Linearity Analysis for 3-D Metrology
Author: Jain, Swati
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: Structured light systems (SLS) have become increasingly important for three-dimensional shape measurements. A quantitative evaluation of the spatial resolution is also becoming increasingly important. The spatial frequency response of the instrume...

Title: Experimental Study on Autocorrelated Femtosecond-Laser Ablation of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Author: Obeid, Joseph
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: In this experimental study, we use a pair of 800 nm 180 fs ultrafast laser pulses to explore time-resolved enhanced ablation of two monolayer transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). A 2D crystal structure gives monolayer TMDs their unique prope...

Title: Freeform Optical Surface Form Metrology with Serial Data Acquisition
Author: Noste, Todd
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics, Physics
Description: Freeform optics, or optics with no axis of rotational invariance, provide optical designers more degrees of freedom, flexibility, and opportunity for innovation increasing optical performance and system integration while decreasing the form factor...

Title: High order plasmonic vortex generation based on spiral nanoslits
Author: Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi, Fang, Jing, Cai, Yangjian
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: Highly localized plasmonic vortices carrying orbital angular momentum are of importance for many applications. Yet, it is a challenge to generating plasmonic vortex with a high topological charge because of no available technique. Here, a novel pl...

Title: Second- order statistical properties of conjugate mode double-H partially coherent beams in turbulence
Author: Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi, Cai, Yangjian, Lin, Rong
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: We present an analysis of the propagation properties of a recently introduced class of conjugate mode partially coherent beams (called double-H beams) in a turbulent atmosphere using the extended Huygens-Fresnel integral. We investigate how the ph...

Title: Supervised Projective Learning for Electroencephalography Analysis
Author: Grear, Tyler
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: The brain-computer interface has emerged as a promising field of research with the capacity to significantly transform multiple technological sectors. The imagining of limb movement known as motor imagery (MI) serves as an auspicious paradigm for ...

Title: The Application of Light-Assisted Drying to the Thermal Stabilization of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
Author: Lam, Phuong Anh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Cold storage can be challenging and expensive for the transportation and storage of biologics. We are developing a new processing technique, light-assisted drying (LAD), to prepare biologics for anhydrous storage in a trehalose amorphous solid mat...

Title: Volume Microenvironment Self-Consistent Constraint Theory Applied to Protein Stability Prediction
Author: Johannessen, Nicholas
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biophysics, Physics
Description: Controlling thermodynamic stability is a challenge in protein engineering. Engineering a protein by introducing mutations into its sequence to increase efficacy can destabilize the protein thermodynamically, preventing it from functioning in its i...