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Calculating characteristic timescales for environmental decoherence in the presence of thermal gravitons

Creator:

Nelson, Hunter

Abstract:

Different models show the effects of environmental decoherence on a quantum system due to various environments of interest. One important quantity within these models is the decoherence time, which tells us how quickly environments wash away the coherence of local measurements. We can describe this effect as the quantum system...

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Undergraduate Thesis

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Hunter T . Nelson Department of Physics Oregon State University United States Submitted 5/7/2021
Detecting Nanohertz Gravitational Waves by Searching for and Timing Millisecond Pulsars

Creator:

Nye, Brandon J.

Abstract:

Detecting gravitational waves is a topic at the forefront of physics. The first gravitational wave was detected by LIGO in 2015. This wave had a frequency in the 10s of Hz. This project is focused on detecting gravitational waves on the nanohertz spectrum using a pulsar timing array. This array...

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Undergraduate Thesis

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