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Ph.D.

• Universal Density Shift Coefficients for Hydrodynamic Transport Properties of a Unitary Fermi Gas
  Xiang Li, Ph.D. Thesis (2024) (PDF 13.5 MB)
  
  
• Fermi Suppression of Optically Induced Inelastic Scattering: Toward Optical Control of a Weakly Interacting Fermi Gas
  Camen Andrew Royse, Ph.D. Thesis (2024) (PDF 3.3 MB)
  
  
• Measurement and Quasi-classical Modeling of Spin Density Evolution and Spin Correlation in a Fermi Gas
  Jingjing Huang, Ph.D. Thesis (2023) (PDF 23 MB)
  
  
• Hydrodynamic Relaxation in a Unitary Fermi Gas
  Xin Wang, Ph.D. Thesis (2022) (PDF 13 MB)
  
  
• Many-body Physics in a Weakly Interacting Fermi Gas
  Saeed Pegahan, Ph.D. Thesis (2020) (PDF 13 MB)
  
  
• Linear Hydrodynamic Response in a Uniform Fermi Gas
  Lorin Richards Baird, Ph.D. Thesis (2019) (PDF 1.7 MB)
  
  
• Designer Optical Control of Two-body Interactions in Ultracold Gases
  Nithya Arunkumar, Ph.D. Thesis (2018) (PDF 6.6 MB)
  
  
• Atom Pairing in Optical Superlattices
  Jayampathi Kangara, Ph.D. Thesis (2018) (PDF 18.1 MB)
  
  
• Ultracold Fermi Gases in a Bichromatic Optical Superlattice
  Chingyun Cheng, Ph.D. Thesis (2016) (PDF 15.1 MB)
  
  
• Thesis: Optical Control of Magnetic Feshbach Resonances by Closed-Channel Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
  Arunkumar Jagannathan, Ph.D. Thesis (2016) (PDF 3.7 MB)
  
  
• Thesis: Spin Imbalanced Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
  Willie Ong, Ph.D. Thesis (2015) (PDF 2.66 MB)
  
  
• Quantum Transport and Scale Invariance in Expanding Fermi Gases
  Ethan Elliot, Ph.D. Thesis (2014) (PDF 1.71 MB)
  
  
• Radio Frequency Spectroscopy Of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas
  Yingyi Zhang, Ph.D. Thesis (2013) (PDF 1.8 MB)
  
  
• Universal Quantum Viscosity in a Unitary Fermi Gas
  Chenglin Cao, Ph.D. Thesis (2012) (PDF 3.8 MB)
  
  
• Precision Measurement of the Sound Velocity in an Ultracold Fermi Gas through the BEC-BCS Crossover
  James Joseph, Ph.D. Thesis (2010) (PDF 3.1 MB)
  
  
• Hydrodynamics of a Rotating Strongly Interacting Fermi gas
  Bason Clancy, Ph.D. Thesis (2008) (PDF 1.5 MB)
  
  
• Entropy and Superfluid Critical Parameters of a Strongly Interacting Fermi gas
  Le Luo, Ph.D. Thesis (2008) (PDF 2.2 MB)
  
  
• Thermodynamics and Superfluidity of a Strongly Interacting Fermi gas
  Joseph Kinast, Ph.D. Thesis (2006) (PDF 1.6 MB) (Errata PDF 63 kB)
  
  
• Two-Window Heterodyne Methods to Characterize Light Fields
  Frank Reil, Ph.D. Thesis (2003) (PDF3.1 MB)
  
  
• Preparation of an Optically-Trapped Degenerate Fermi Gas of ⁶Li: Finding the Route to Degeneracy
  Michael Gehm, Ph.D. Thesis (2003) (PDF 3.4 MB)
  
  
• Classical Wave Simulation of Quantum Measurement
  Kim Fook Lee, Ph.D. Thesis (2002) (PDF 3.4 MB)
  
  
• Preparation of an Optically-Trapped Degenerate Fermi Gas of ⁶Li: Characterization of Degeneracy
  Stephen Granade, Ph.D. Thesis (2002) (PDF 3.3 MB)
  
  
• Optical Trapping and Evaporative Cooling of Fermionic Atoms
  Kenneth O'Hara, Ph.D. Thesis (2000) (PDF 3.9 MB)
  
  
• Optical Phase Space Distributions for Coherence Tomography
  Adam Wax, Ph.D. Thesis (1999) (PDF 12.7 MB)
  
  
• Raman Induced Resonance Imaging of Trapped Atoms
  Thomas Savard, Ph.D. Thesis (1998) (PDF 1.5 MB)
  
  

M.S. and Undergraduate Honors

• A Compact, Air-Cooled Zeeman Slower as a Cold Atom Source
  Ingrid Kaldre, Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2006) (PDF 2.6 MB)
  
  
• Design and Construction of an Improved Zeeman Slower
  Margaret Harris, Undergraduate Honors Thesis (2003) (PDF 3.1 MB)