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Emergent Quantum Inductance in a Chiral Orbital Current State: Next-Generation Quantum Materials and Applications

Physics and Astronomy

Chiral orbital currents (COC) circulating along the edges of the crystal unit cells underpin an array of novel phenomena in ferrimagnetic Mn3Si2Te6. Two types of inductances are well known,…

Enhancing Photon Detection for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Electron-Ion Collider

Physics and Astronomy (inferred)

The ePIC Collaboration is developing a sophisticated detector for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory and Jefferson Lab, aimed at studying interactions b…

Enhancing Sensitivity in Quantum Optomechanical Systems Through Quantum Control

Physics and Astronomy

Ultra-high-precision sensors are essential in research areas including earthquake detection, medical imaging, autonomous vehicle navigation, and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave O…

Environmental Radioactivity and Meteorological Variables: Statistical Relationships and Machine Learning Regression

Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award

Whilst doing background radioactivity measurements I noticed that it changes significantly throughout the months. Thus, I asked myself if environmental radioactivity was influenced by the me…

Estimating the Bohr Magneton Using the Einstein-De Haas Effect

Physics and Astronomy

The Einstein-de Haas Effect is a fundamental effect first discovered in 1908. The experiment investigates the effect in which a ferromagnetic material is presented with an outside magnetic f…

Exploring Continuous Wave Laser-generated Combustion Spectroscopy: Developing a Cost-effective Metal Identification System

Physics and Astronomy

The greatest technological advancements on planet Earth are typically attributed to the honing of metalworking throughout history, leading to the development of modern machining, constructio…

Five Oldest Population III Lb Galaxy Candidates: Population Synthesis Approach

Physics and Astronomy (inferred)

Population III (Pop III) objects are the first generation of stars in the universe, forged directly from the primordial gas of post-Big-Bang Recombination. Though they have never been direct…

ForeCAT: Advancing Clear Air Turbulence Prediction for Aviation Safety With Atmospheric Physics Informed Neural Networks and Spatiotemporal Weather Data

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

Unexpected turbulence, particularly Clear Air Turbulence (CAT), remains one of aviation's most serious challenges, causing passenger injuries, operational disruptions, and costing airlines $…

Gearin' Up

Physics and Astronomy

The purpose of this experiment was to test the strength of 3D-printed gears with different infill levels. Infill refers to how much material is used for the inner portion of an item. This id…

High-Cadence Adaptive Reverberation Mapping of Variable Quasars to Resolve Light-Hour Accretion Disk Structures in Supermassive Black Holes

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

Supermassive black hole accretion disks, predicted to emit optical continuum from regions spanning light-hours, remain challenging to resolve via traditional reverberation mapping (RM) techn…

Innovative Machine Learning Approaches for Exoplanet Detection and Anomaly Identification: Applying Computational Techniques to Uncover Hidden Patterns in TESS Data

Physics and Astronomy

Accurately detecting exoplanets is essential for understanding planetary system formation and dynamics. Anomaly detection is an essential part of exoplanet studies, especially when analyzing…

Investigating the Effect of Qubit Type on Quantum Computing Viability

Physics and Astronomy

This experiment investigated the characteristics of the decoherence of qubits in photonic quantum computers and the effects of decoherence on the superimposed state of the qubit. Three diffe…

Investigating the Optimal Pump Source for an Optical Quantum Computer Using Type-I Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award

This study’s goal was to determine which pump laser configuration would stimulate type-1 spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in beta barium borate (BBO) crystals such that the numb…

Investigating the Origin of the Radius Cliff and Water Formation on Sub-Neptune Exoplanets

Physics and Astronomy

NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered over 5,800 exoplanets in our galaxy, revealing a puzzling phenomenon known as the "radius cliff." The "radius cliff" is a sharp decline in the number of…

iSUM: Investigation of 3D Physical and Computational Models of Self-Uprighting Behavior in Pill Millipedes

Physics and Astronomy Second Award

Pill Millipedes play a vital role in humid forest ecosystems, functioning as decomposers and indicators of environmental health, thereby supporting biodiversity. One of their most interestin…

Large-Scale Multi-Messenger Simulation of White Dwarfs in the LISA Era

Physics and Astronomy

The discovery of gravitational waves (GW) has brought about the development of new detectors, including the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which will detect white dwarf (WD) bina…

Lost in the Stars: Chemical Tagging of the Magellanic Clouds and Accreted Populations

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

The internal kinematics of massive red supergiant branch (RGB) and oxygen-rich and carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Magellanic Clouds have been modeled to examine the t…

Low-Cost Portable Braille Embosser for Education,

Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award

Modeling Cosmic Microwave Background Distortions Through Particle-in-Cell Simulations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Physics and Astronomy

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is an astronomical phenomenon that serves as a direct snapshot of the early Universe and is imprinted with the interactions of galaxy clusters. The most…

Modeling Gravitational Wave and Dark Matter Signals With Autoregressive Time Series and Fourier Analyses

Physics and Astronomy

Dark matter is theorized to comprise a fundamental component of the universe, but it has not been detected or identified. Detecting dark matter would advance our knowledge of the universe an…

NEPTUNE: N-body Exoplanet Prediction Using TTV for Unseen Exoplanets

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

Traditional exoplanet detection methods often overlook multi-planet systems containing long-period or non-transiting planets due to observational biases favoring short-period transiting plan…

New Evidence for Sub-Solar Mass Black Holes From LIGO

Physics and Astronomy

The possible existence of sub-solar mass black holes poses a challenge to current models of stellar evolution, as there is no known formation mechanism to produce such objects. There is some…

New Insights on Antibubbles: Investigation of the Physical Properties of Antibubbles Using an Original Systematic Experimental Setup

Physics and Astronomy Third Award

Simply expressed, antibubbles are the material opposite of soap bubbles. They consist internally of a virtually spherical volume of fluid that is separated from the surrounding fluid, typica…

Novel Flexible Substrate-based 2D MoS2 Devices and Novel Ionic Liquid Gated MoS2 Field-effect Transistors on Flexible Substrates

Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award

Flexible two-dimensional (2D) field-effect transistors (FETs) have gathered great interest, due to the need to solve scalability problems that are commonplace in 3D FETs. Specifically, the r…

Observation Plan for (101955) Bennu Using Astronomical Parameter Computations

Physics and Astronomy

Asteroid observation is vital for gathering lightcurve data, enabling the refinement of asteroid models, reconstruction of their three-dimensional shapes, and derivation of astrophysical pro…

Optimizing Exoplanet Detection: A Comparison of Neural Networks and Traditional Machine Learning Models on Light Curve Data

Physics and Astronomy

The growing need for efficient and accurate detection of exoplanets, especially with limited datasets, presents a significant challenge in the field of astronomy. This project analyzes the a…

Optimizing Tidal Disruption Event Detection: A Photometric Analysis of Host Galaxies

Physics and Astronomy

Supermassive black holes lie at the centers of most large galaxies and play a crucial role in shaping galactic structure and dynamics. Despite being effectively invisible, they are studied i…

Quantifying Sensitivity and Classifying Gravitational Waves: Machine Learning CNN Approach to Data Analysis and Interpretation

Physics and Astronomy

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a ground-based interferometer designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs). The search for these waves in detector data face…

Quantized States in Centrifugal Fluid

Physics and Astronomy

This research investigates the extraction of fluid from a rotating cylindrical container using a straw-like tube, focusing on the fluid's viscosity, rotational speed, and tube friction as ke…

QuasarCodex: Quantifying AGN Feedback in High-Redshift Quasars Through Outflow Kinematics

Physics and Astronomy

Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe and the most energetic subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN), resulting from the accretion of gas and dust within a rapidly rotating disk…