Evan Telford with Harsh Mathur
The Relativistic Hofstadter Problem
Hofstadter studied electrons in a strong magnetic field perturbed by a weak periodic potential on a square lattice. He found that the energy levels plotted as a function of the magnetic field formed a beautiful pattern with a recursive structure now Hofstadter...
2014
Matt Vaughan with Ben Holtzman, Felix Waldhauser, and Lapo Boschi
Can We Use Sound Perception to Identify Rupture Patterns in Earthquakes?
The processes by which earthquakes occur is poorly understood. In more detail, an earthquake results from the relative motion of blocks of crust, or pieces of tectonic plates, across a...
Dylan Yurgionas with Dan Akerib and Tom ShuttModeling Gamma Ray Background from LUX Characterization of background is important for finding WIMP recoil events. Based on their cross sections, WIMPs will only scatter once inside the two phase xenon detector, LUX. Incident gamma rays from trace radioactive impurities in detector...