Physics (PHY): Recent submissions
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Experimental Investigation of Multielectron Bubbles in Liquid Helium
(2017-11-28)Multielectron bubbles (MEBs) are micron sized cavities in liquid helium that contain electrons confined within a nanometer thick layer on the inner surface of a bubble. These objects present a rich platform to study the ... -
Study of Light-Matter Interaction at the Nanoscale with Quantum Dots in Photonic and Plasmonic Metamaterials
(2017-11-28)Optical properties of nanoscopic materials have been intensively pursued over last couple of decades due to their tunable optical properties. Recent interests in this field have been mainly focused on the preparation of ... -
Effect of Antimony Doping in Iron Chalcogenides
(2017-11-27)This thesis is organized in to six chapters. The contents of each chapter are briefly summarized in the following sections. Chapter 1 introduces different Fe-based superconductors. Within a very short span of their ... -
Optical, AC Conductivity, NMR and Raman Studies of Alkali Borogermanate Glasses
(2017-11-22)Physical properties of materials and their constituents are interrelated. Though the basic structural unit involved also plays a role in deciding the properties, this can be manipulated to a certain extent, by carefully ... -
Continuous Beam of Laser-Cooled Ytterbium Atoms for Precision Measurements
(2017-11-22)What if an elementary particle such as an electron had an intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM)? Existence of such an EDM would be an indication of time-reversal symmetry violation in the laws of Physics. The Standard ... -
Quantum Simulations by NMR : Applications to Small Spin Chains and Ising Spin Systems
(2017-11-22)Quantum simulations, where controllable quantum systems are used to simulate other quantum systems, originally proposed by Richard Feynman, are one of the most remarkable applications of quantum information science. Compared ... -
Study of Phase Transitions in Two Dimensions using Electrical Noise
(2017-11-21)It is well known from Mermin-Wagner theorem that a two dimensional(2D) system with continuous symmetry can have no long-range order at finite temperature. However such systems can undergo a transition from a low temperature ... -
Direct Numerical Simulations of Fluid Turbulence : (A) Statistical Properties of Tracer And Inertial Particles (B) Cauchy-Lagrange Studies of The Three Dimensional Euler Equation
(2017-11-09)The studies of particles advected by tubulent flows is an active area of research across many streams of sciences and engineering, which include astrophysics, fluid mechanics, statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and ... -
Collective Behaviour of Confined Equilibrium And Non Equilibrium Soft Matter Systems
(2017-11-09)Due to their diversity, soft matter systems provide a convenient platform to study a variety of physical phenomena like phase transitions and collective motion. Encompassing a wide range of equilibrium and non-equilibrium ... -
High-Resolution Spectroscopy in Atoms Using Coherent Control
(2017-10-26)The subject of this thesis is the study of coherent interaction of light with matter (atoms) to improve the precision measurements and techniques. Special attention is drawn to get the narrow subnatural electromagnetically ... -
Investigation of Nonlinearities in Graphene Based NEMS
(2017-10-05)Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have drawn considerable attention towards several sensing applications such as force, spin, charge and mass. These devices due to their smaller size, operate at very high frequencies ... -
Crystal Structures of Sortase A from Streptococcus Penumoniae : Insights into Domain-Swapped Dimerization. Crystal Structures of Designed Peptides : Inhibitors of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Fibrillization Implicated in Type 2 Diabetes And Those Forming Self-Assembled Nanotubes
(2017-09-27)Sortases are cell-membrane associated cysteine transpeptidases that are essential for the assembly and covalent anchoring of certain surface proteins to the cell wall in Gram-positive bacteria. Thus, they play critical ... -
The Cosmic Population of Extended Radio Sources : A Radio-Optical Study
(2017-09-27)This thesis presents studies of cosmic populations of extragalactic radio sources. The problems selected for this thesis are 1) the derivation of constraints on the emergence of new sub-mJy populations at flux density below ... -
Mixed Alkali Effect in Oxyfluoro Vanadate Glasses And The Effect of Rare Earth Ions on Oxyfluoro Tellurite Glasses - A Spectroscopic Study
(2017-09-20)The main motivation of this thesis is to study the long standing problem of mixed alkali effect (MAE) in oxyfluro vanadate glass systems from the point of view of structural arrangement and to investigate the effect of two ... -
Shear Induced Transitions In Mixed Surfactant Systems And Anisotropic Colloids
(2017-06-12)This thesis deals with the non-equilibrium phenomena under shear observed mainly in bilayer forming liquid crystalline phases of mixed surfactant systems, anisotropic colloidal dispersions as well as Langmuir monolayers ... -
Spiral- And Scroll- Wave Dynamics In Ironically And Anatomically Realistic Mathematical Models For Mammalian Ventricular Tissue
(2017-05-24)Cardiac arrhythmias, such as ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF), are among the leading causes of death in the industrialized world. There is growing consensus that these arrhythmias are associated ... -
Structure, Dynamics And Thermodynamics Of Confined Water Molecules
(2017-05-21)This thesis deals with several aspects of the structure and dynamics of water molecules confined in nanoscopic pores. Water molecules confined in hydrophobic nanocavities exhibit unusual structural and dynamic properties. ... -
Electrical Transport And Low Frequency Noise In Graphene And Molybdenum Disulphide
(2017-05-21)This thesis work contains electrical transport and low frequency (1/f) noise measurements in ultrathin graphene and Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) field effect transistors (FET). From the measurements, We mainly focus on the ... -
Optimization Of NMR Experiments Using Genetic Algorithm : Applications In Quantum Infomation Processing, Design Of Composite Operators And Quantitative Experiments
(2017-05-21)Genetic algorithms (GA) are stochastic global search methods based on the mechanics of natural biological evolution, proposed by John Holland in 1975. Here in this thesis, we have exploited possible utilities of Genetic ... -
NMR Methods For The Study Of Partially Ordered Systems
(2016-11-16)The work presented in this thesis has two parts. The first part deals with methodological developments in the area of solid-state NMR, relevant to the study of partially ordered systems. Liquid crystals are best examples ...