Cette thèse concerne deux sujets différents: une étude d'une classe de modèles matriciels qui sont pertinents pour l'holographie, et le calcul d'observables dans une théorie superconforme N = 2 grâce à la technique de la localisation supersymétrique. Le premier sujet traite de modèles matriciels avec symétrie U(N)xO(D) qui ont été introduits récemment. Dans ces modèles, appelés modèles de matrices-vecteurs, il a été montré qu'il est possible de définir une limite de grand D qui conduit à un développement en diagrammes planaires resommable. De plus, ils contiennent des champs et des symétries inspirés de la théorie des cordes et il a été montré qu'un de ces modèles présente les mêmes propriétés physiques que le modèle SYK, dont la connexion avec l'holographie est bien connue. Dans cettethèse, l'étude de ces modèles matriciels est étendue en considérant plusieurs généralisations de la littérature existante. L'étude de modèles avec des termes d'interaction multi-traces et avec une symétrie réduite, et le calcul des observables multi-traces, sont considerés. De plus, plusieurs problèmes concernant la construction de modèles sont pris en considération. Enfin, une analyse approfondie des modèles de matrices-vecteurs fermioniques avec des termes d'interaction quartique est effectuée. Dans le cadre de la localisation supersymétrique, la seconde partie de la thèse se concentre sur le calcul des observables dans la QCD superconforme N = 2 (SCQCD) en 4 dimensions avec symétrie de jauge SU(N). Pour commencer, les résultats connus concernant le calcul de corrélateurs d'opérateurs chiraux et les valeurs moyennes de boucles de Wilson circulaires en utilisant la technique de la localisation supersymétrique sont présentés. La contribution originale de cette partie concerne le calcul de corrélateurs entre opérateurs chiraux et boucles de Wilson circulaires. Le calcul est organisé comme suit: d'abord, les observables sont calculées à travers le modèle matriciel résultant de la procédure de localisation. Ensuite, les résultats du modèle matriciel sont testés par rapport au calcul utilisant la théorie quntique des champs perturbative. Ce calcul esteffectué en prenant la différence entre l'observable calculée dans N = 2 SCQCD et la même observable calculée dans N = 4 super Yang-Mills. Ceci réduit considérablement le nombre de diagrammes de Feynman qui contribuent au corrélateur, ce qui permet d'effectuer des contrôles perturbatifs jusqu'à deux boucles. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Holography is a form of 3D imaging. Its practice spans the disciplines of science and art. My original contribution to knowledge is in making a claim for holography as a new context for writing ekphrastic poetry which most usually refers to poetry written in dialogue with the visual. The scholarship of ekphrasis cites examples of poems written in response to painting, sculpture, photography and film but not to holography. This is practice-led research and my collection of poetry Equinoctial arising from it derives its structure, and the linguistic and formal properties of its poems, from a process of holographic enquiry arising from processes of holography and the properties of holograms. Furthermore, I construe this holographic enquiry as a form of ekphrastic enquiry. My primary sources for ekphrastic dialogues are the holopoetry and theories of holopoetry of Brazilian artist and poet, Eduardo Kac; the essay: ‘Stopping Time: Harrison’s Holograms’, and holograms of John Harrison’s timekeeper, ‘H4’ by Martin Richardson; the essays in The Aerial Letter and the novel, Picture Theory by French-Canadian writer, Nicole Brossard. For Brossard, the hologram is a trope associated with liberatory and visionary feminist reading and writing practices. The scholarship of ekphrasis revels its gendered nature which I go on to scrutinize via the various lenses of my primary sources. In order to consolidate my positioning as a feminist researcher, I develop the methodology, ‘flâneuserie’ from poetry and poetics by women poets and scholars which describes an agency-making approach to bringing together the creative and critical components of a practice-led thesis in creative writing in a poetics I come to describe as ‘holopoetics’. I conclude by upholding holography as a technology of perception that emphasises the position of the viewer or reader in relation to artwork and poem, and, in doing so offers multiple perspectives and possibilities of interpretation. Throughout, I emphasise the significance of my study as an example of concept-driven practice-led research in creative-writing which upholds a claim for poetry as new knowledge.

abstract: This dissertation research has involved microscopic characterization of magnetic nanostructures using off-axis electron holography and Lorentz microscopy. The nanostructures investigated have included Co nanoparticles (NPs), Au/Fe/GaAs shell/core nanowires (NWs), carbon spirals with magnetic cores, magnetic nanopillars, Ni-Zn-Co spinel ferrite and CoFe/Pd multilayers. The studies have confirmed the capability of holography to describe the behavior of magnetic structures at the nanoscale. The phase changes caused by the fringing fields of chains consisting of Co NPs were measured and calculated. The difference between chains with different numbers of Co NPs followed the trend indicated by calculations. Holography studies of Au/Fe/GaAs NWs grown on (110) GaAs substrates with rotationally non-uniform coating confirmed that Fe was present in the shell and that the shell behaved as a bar magnet. No fringing field was observed from NWs with cylindrical coating grown on (111)B GaAs substrates. The most likely explanation is that magnetic fields are confined within the shells and form closed loops. The multiple-magnetic-domain structure of iron carbide cores in carbon spirals was imaged using phase maps of the fringing fields. The strength and range of this fringing field was insufficient for manipulating the carbon spirals with an external applied magnetic field. No magnetism was revealed for CoPd/Fe/CoPd magnetic nanopillars. Degaussing and MFM scans ruled out the possibility that saturated magnetization and sample preparation had degraded the anisotropy, and the magnetism, respectively. The results suggested that these nanopillars were not suitable as candidates for prototypical bit information storage devices. Observations of Ni-Zn-Co spinel ferrite thin films in plan-view geometry indicated a multigrain magnetic domain structure and the magnetic fields were oriented in-plane only with no preferred magnetization distribution. This domain structure helps explain this ferrite's high permeability at high resonance frequency, which is an unusual character. Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of CoFe/Pd multilayers was revealed using holography. Detailed microscopic characterization showed structural factors such as layer waviness and interdiffusion that could contribute to degradation of the PMA. However, these factors are overwhelmed by the dominant effect of the CoFe layer thickness, and can be ignored when considering magnetic domain structure. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Engineering 2015

Recentemente, uma quantidade de informação/computação quântica chamada complexidade computacional tem adquirido mais e mais importância no estudo de buracos negros.Resumidamente, complexidade mede a dificuldade de alguma tarefa. No contexto de mecânica quântica (ou mesmo para estados em uma CFT), qualquer estado tem uma complexidade associada, uma vez que o processo de preparar algum estado, usando operações unitárias, é uma tarefa por sí só. Propostas holográficas para o cálculo de complexidade tem sido desenvolvidas nos anos recentes. Há duas delas que estão mais desenvolvidas: as conjecturas complexidade=volume e complexidade=ação. No contexto da correspondência AdS/CFT é sabido que o buraco negro de Schwarzschild em AdS é dual à um estado térmico que descreve duas CFTs emaranhadas. Para esse caso em específico, a conjectura complexidade=volume iguala a complexidade do estado que descreve esse par de CFTs emaranhadas com o volume da máxima superfície de codimensão um no espaço-tempo dual. Por outro lado, a conjectura complexidade=ação iguala a complexidade da borda com a ação gravitacional calculada sobre uma região do espaço-tempo conhecida como Wheeler-DeWitt patch. O objetivo dessa tese é proporcionar os requisitos necessários para entender as conjecturas relacionadas com complexidade, monstrando alguns resultados importantes proporcionados pelos cálculos holográficos no lado gravitacional. / In recent years, a quantity from quantum information/computation called computational complexity has been acquiring more and more importance in the study of black holes. Briefly, complexity measures the hardness of some task. In the context of quantum mechanics (or even for states in a CFT), any state has an associated complexity, once the process of to preparing some state, using unitary operations, is a task by itself. Holographic proposals for the computation of complexity have been developed in recent years. There are two of them that are more developed: the complexity=volume and complexity=action conjectures. In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, it is known that the two sided AdS-Schwarzschild black hole is dual to some thermal state that describes two entangled CFTs. For this specific case, the complexity=volume conjecture equates the complexity of the state that describes this pair of entangled CFTs with the volume of the maximal codimension-one surface in the dual space-time. On the other hand, the complexity=action conjecture equates the boundary complexity with the gravitational action evaluated on a region of space-time known as the Wheeler-DeWitt patch. The goal of this thesis is to provide the necessary requisites to understand the conjectures related to complexity, showing some important results provided by holographic computations on the gravitational side.

A Microscopia Holográfica Digital (MHD) é uma poderosa ferramenta para análise não destrutiva de superfícies e caracterização morfológica e estrutural de materiais. Várias técnicas microscópicas têm sido utilizadas com esses objetivos, mas, em todas elas, a visualização de campo completo não é permitida em uma única aquisição da informação do sistema analisado, além disso, a necessidade de uso de corantes, o processo de varredura, entre outros fatores, dificulta a aquisição das imagens. A Microscopia Holográfica Digital permite contornar essas dificuldades através de um método simples e rápido. Com uma modificação em seu arranjo original, é possível revelar as diferenças na absorção e nos índices de refração experimentados por um campo transmitido por um material anisotrópico. Este método, neste trabalho, foi nomeado como Microscopia Holográfica de Polarização, o qual permite medir as diferenças de fase e de intensidade relacionadas com a birrefringência e com o dicroísmo do material, respectivamente. Dessa forma, A MHD se mostra uma ferramenta promissora na análise de problemas em diversas áreas, pois possibilita, através de uma única captura, obter informações sobre as propriedades ópticas e estruturais dos sistemas de interesse. O objetivo desse trabalho foi, além do desenvolvimento instrumental, analisar variações nas propriedades ópticas e morfológicas de eritrócitos através da quantificação dos índices de refração e perfis topográficos destes quando submetidos aos principais agentes de fixação de amostras. Essas variações são determinantes na escolha do método de análise, já que estes podem alterar significativamente os resultados, assim como a sua interpretação. Também foi descrito um novo método, baseado na técnica holográfica, de análise do dicroísmo linear através de uma varredura executada sobre os padrões de difração das componentes ortogonais do campo transmitido pela amostra. A aplicação da MHD ao estudo de processos dinâmicos também foi realizada, utilizando células cardíacas vivas e proteínas em solução. Somados, estes resultados demonstraram a possibilidade de se utilizar as técnicas holográficas como métodos de estudo amplo de microssistemas biológicos. / The Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM) is a powerful tool for nondestructive analysis of surfaces and for morphological and structural characterization of materials. Several microscopic techniques have been used with these purposes, but in all cases, the complete field reconstruction is not allowed in a single acquisition of information of the analyzed system, moreover, the requirements of staining and scanning procedures, among other factors, difficult the image acquisition. Digital Holographic Microscopy allows to overcome these difficulties through a simple and quick method. With a modification in its original setup, is possible to reveal the differences in absorption and refractive index experienced by a wavefield transmitted by an anisotropic material. This method, in this thesis, is named Polarization Holographic Microscopy, which allows to measure differences in phase and intensity related to the birefringence and the dichroism of the material, respectively. Thereby, the DHM is shown as a promising tool for the study of problems in several fields, because it allows, through a single capture, to obtain information related to optical and morphological properties of the systems of interest. The objective of this work was, besides instrumental development, to evaluate changes in optical and morphological properties of erythrocytes through quantification of their refractive index and topographic profiles when submitted to the main fixating agents. These changes are crucial once the method of analysis is chosen, as they can significantly alter the results, as well as their interpretation. A new method was also described based on the holographic technique, for analysis of linear dichroism, through scans performed on the diffraction patterns of the orthogonal components of the field transmitted by the sample. The application of the DHM to the study of dynamic processes was also performed, using live cardiac cells and proteins in solution. Together, these results demonstrate the possibility of using holographic techniques such as extensive methods for studying biological microsystems.

Orientadores: Marcelo Knobel, Lucila Helena Deliesposte Cescato / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin. / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T12:21:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosa_WagnerdeOliveirada_M.pdf: 19528973 bytes, checksum: 7a1e2008a2b3dee6576a7022583102ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação utilizamos a técnica de litografia holográfica para reproduzir padrões periódicos em fotorresinas, depositadas em substratos de quartzo e vidro, que posteriormente foram utilizados como molde para a deposição de materiais magnéticos, que, portanto reproduzirem a periodicidade da estrutura gravada na fotorresina. Uma vantagem desta técnica é a dimensão pequena das estruturas que podem ser produzidas com uma boa razão de aspecto em áreas da ordem de 1000 cm 2 , assim como o controle do seu espaçamento. A união desta técnica com a deposição de materiais por sputtering foi muito vantajosa, pois usando este tipo de deposição podemos, em princípio, selecionar qualquer tipo de material e reproduzir com grande eficiência os padrões determinados pelas máscaras holográficas. Os sistemas aqui estudados são nanofitas de três tipos de materiais magnéticos: Co, Ni e Ni80Fe20(permalloy). Isto nos dá a liberdade de estudar como varia a interação magnética entre as nanofitas em função da sua separação e também da sua espessura. Comparamos os resultados obtidos das amostras estruturadas com as sem estruturas e foi possível observar que a interação dipolar exerce uma função importante na mudança dos campos coercivos destas. Entretanto, observamos que o campo de troca é praticamente inalterado para as diversas amostras de mesma composição estudadas que possuem a mesma espessura, assinalando que este mecanismo independe da anisotropia de forma e da interação dipolar. Os resultados de ressonância ferromagnética (RFM) mostram que os campos de anisotropia das amostras são menores do que os previstos pelas curvas de magnetização destas, indicando que o campo medido pode ser na verdade um campo efetivo no qual poderíamos ter a contribuição do campo dipolar. / Abstract: In this thesis we employ the holographic lithography (HL) technique to reproduce periodic patterns that were subsequently used as masks for the deposition of magnetic materials by sputtering. The structures present the same periodicity of the previously recorded mask. One advantage of this technique is the very good aspect ratio, even for areas of the order of 1000 cm2, and the low dimensions achieved. Moreover, one has a complete control of the structures¿ periodicity. The combination of the HL with sputtering is very oportune because this kind of deposition allows one to work with any type of material. Then, one can reproduce with great efficiency the patterns introduced by the holographic masks. The studied magnetic systems were formed by three different types of magnetic materials: Co, Ni and Ni80Fe20(permalloy). We studied the variation of the magnetic interactions among the nanostripes both as a function of the separation among them and their thickness. By comparing the results from the structured samples with the continous one it was possible observe the important role of the dipolar interaction on the coercivity. Nevertheless, we noted that the exchange field does not change for different studied samples with the same composition and thickness, indicating that this behavior is independent of the shape anisotropy and the dipolar interactions. The results of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) showed that the anisotropy fields of the samples are smaller than the ones predicted by the magnetic measurements, indicating that we measured an effective field with the contribution of the dipolar field. / Mestrado / Física da Matéria Condensada / Mestre em Física

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) modes promise an exciting future for communications due to the infinite number available and their orthogonal nature. However modern implementations of OAM mode communications utilize a multi-element approach to multiplexing. This multi-element approach wastes power and becomes increasingly complex and expensive as the number of modes in the system increases. This makes the multi-approach method not scalable. In this thesis we explore single element OAM multiplexing and de-multiplexing. A system utilizing single element multiplexer and de-multiplexer, was designed built and qualified. We have demonstrated that such a system can easily achieve a BER of less than 1% and is thusly feasible.

Cette thèse traite de l'application de l'holographie numérique dans l'axe à l'étude d'une dynamique tourbillonnaire dans un champ de houle. Lors du passage de la houle au dessus d'une structure immergée, des tourbillons se forment à ses extrémités. Ces tourbillons ont un impact fort sur la dynamique proche des structures et peuvent engendrer des problèmes d'affouillement ou de vieillissement prématuré. On s'intéresse donc à la dynamique tridimensionnelle de ces tourbillons qui sont rapidement l'objet de déformations menant à leur éclatement. Pour étudier ce mécanisme, le problème est modélisé par une géométrie simple, une plaque soumise à une houle monochromatique. Les expériences sont menées dans un canal à houle de 10 m de long et 30 cm de large. Pour mesurer la dynamique 3D on utilise une technique innovante, l'holographie numérique qui permet une mesure 3D3C au moyen d'une diode laser et d'une seule caméra. Ses principales limitations résident dans la dimension de la section du volume de mesure, qui est de l'ordre de la surface du capteur CCD, ainsi que du nombre de particules présentes dans le champ. Toutefois, l'holographie permet une résolution de l'ordre de la taille d'un pixel dans le plan du capteur CCD et de 3 à 5 fois le diamètre de la particule suivie dans la direction orthogonale au capteur. Ces mesures permettent de suivre individuellement plusieurs centaines de particules dans le champ et d'en mesurer les vitesses. Enfin des mesures complémentaires en stéréo-piv confirment les résultats obtenues par holographie et permettent l'étude du confinement du tourbillon sous l'action combinée de la surface libre et de la plaque. / This thesis deals with the use of digital in-line holography to the study of a vortex dynamics under water waves. As waves propagate above an immersed structure, vortices are formed at its edges. Those vortices have a strong impact on the flow dynamics in the vicinity of structures and can cause scouring or damages. Thus we are interested in the three-dimensional dynamics of those vortices which are quickly distorted, leading to their breakup. To study this dynamics, the physical problem is modelled by a basic geometry, a thin plate is set under monochromatic waves. Experiments are conduct within a wave flume of dimensions 10 m long and 30 cm width. To measure the 3D flow the use of an innovative technique, the digital holography which allow a 3D3C measure with only one camera and a laser diode. Its main limitations are the size of the cross-section of the sample volume and the number of particles allowed in it. However, digital holography can localize particles with a pixel sized resolution within the plans parallel to the CCD sensor and a depth resolution in the order of 3 to 5 times the particles diameter. Those measurements enable to follow the path of each particle inside the sample volume. Finally, acquisition by stereo particle image velocimetry confirms the velocities measured by holography and are used to study the interaction between the vortex and the combined action of free surface and the plate.

In this work, the technique of designing and optimizing broadband volume transmission holograms using dichromate gelatin (DCG) is summarized for solar spectrum-splitting application. Spectrum splitting photovoltaic system uses a series of single bandgap PV cells that have different spectral conversion efficiency properties to more fully utilize the solar spectrum. In such a system, one or more high performance optical filters are usually required to split the solar spectrum and efficiently send them to the corresponding PV cells. An ideal spectral filter should have a rectangular shape with sharp transition wavelengths. DCG is a near ideal holographic material for solar applications as it can achieve high refractive index modulation, low absorption and scattering properties and long-term stability to solar exposure after sealing. In this research, a methodology of designing and modeling a transmission DCG hologram using coupled wave analysis for different PV bandgap combinations is described. To achieve a broad diffraction bandwidth and sharp cut-off wavelength, a cascaded structure of multiple thick holograms is described. A search algorithm is also developed to optimize both single and two-layer cascaded holographic spectrum splitters for the best bandgap combinations of two- and three-junction SSPV systems illuminated under the AM1.5 solar spectrum. The power conversion efficiencies of the optimized systems under the AM1.5 solar spectrum are then calculated using the detailed balance method, and shows an improvement compared with tandem structure.

Dans cette thèse, nous étudions la structure asymptotique de la gravité à trois dimensions d’espace-temps avec et sans constante cosmologique.La première partie de la thèse présente en détails les propriétés fondamentales de la gravité à trois dimensions pour des espaces à constante cosmologique négative, ou espaces de types Anti-de Sitter (AdS). Nous introduisons le formalisme de Chern-Simons pour la gravité en utilisant la formulation dite du premier ordre pour cette dernière. Nous présentons également les conditions aux bords dites de Brown-Henneaux et le calcul associé de l’algèbre des charges de surface. Enfin, nous décrivons les étapes de la réduction du modèle de Chern-Simons à un modèle de Wess-Zumino-Witten puis à celui d’une théorie de Liouville. La relevance de cette théorie dans le calcul microscopique de l’entropie d’un trou noir à trois dimensions est également discutée.La seconde partie de la thèse contient les contributions originales. Tout d’abord, nous étendons l’analyse de la dynamique asymptotique de la supergravité à trois dimensions au cas d’une constante cosmologique nulle. Nous montrons que l’algèbre des charges de surface associée est une extension supersymétrique de l’algèbre BMS, et construisons la théorie bidimensionnelle située au bord de l’espace-temps qui possède cette symétrie. Le second résultat est l’obtention d’une symétrie de dimension infinie au voisinage de l’horizon d’événements d’un trou noir tridimensionnel non extrême. Troisièmement, nous discutions le cas d’une constante cosmologique positive et montrons l’existence d’une théorie de Liouville euclidienne duale à la gravité d’Einstein avec des conditions aux bords de Dirichlet dans le patch statique. Enfin, nous explorons un autre cadre dans lequel des symétries de dimension infinie apparaissent pour des espaces temps qui non sont pas du type Anti-de Sitter. Nous considérons pour cela des déformations de ces derniers, connus sous le nom d’espaces-temps Warped Anti-de Sitter. Nous montrons que ces déformations admettent une algèbre de surface donnée par une somme semi-direct entre une algèbre de Virasoro et une algèbre affine de Kac-Moody, avec extensions centrales non nulles. Nous montrons que les configurations du trou noir hôte des espaces-temps Warped s’organisent en termes de deux algèbres de Virasoro. Nous identifions les générateurs associés qui décrivent les représentations de la théorie duale et, en appliquant une formule de Cardy, nous prouvons qu’un calcul microscopique reproduit correctement l’entropie de ces trous noirs. Nous étendons ce résultat à des conditions aux bords plus générales qui incluent de nouvelles solutions associés à des degrés de liberté locaux, des gravitons massifs contenus dans le volume d’espace-temps. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished