Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-132). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 9, 2009) Thesis advisor: Dr. Xudong Fan. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Rhode Island, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-116).

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-59).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Dennis G. Deppe. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Minqiang Li, Committee Member ; Constantine Yannouleas, Committee Member ; Michael Pustilnik, Committee Member ; Mei-Yin Chou, Committee Member ; Uzi Landman, Committee Member.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Submitted by Gustavo Caixeta (gucaixeta@gmail.com) on 2017-02-16T10:41:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 texto compĺeto.pdf: 927308 bytes, checksum: 87f5c56a4b88cc4b7ab4bed346550ec1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-16T10:41:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto compĺeto.pdf: 927308 bytes, checksum: 87f5c56a4b88cc4b7ab4bed346550ec1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-12-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES, Brasil / Este trabalho faz uma breve revisão das técnicas de crescimento de cristais, tanto volumétricas, quanto em camadas. São abordadas as técnicas Czocrhalski, Bridgman, Epitaxia por Fase Líquida, por Fluxo Molecular e de Paredes Quentes. Esta última técnica é utilizada no crescimento de filmes de CdTe sobre substratos de Si. A caracterização das amostras produzidas é feita por microscopia de força atômica, técnica que é descrita em detalhes. Finalmente são apresentados os resultados do estudo sobre o processo de nucleação do CdTe sobre Si e discutida a possibilidade de utilização deste processo na fabricação de pontos quânticos auto-formados. / This work makes a brief revision of crystal growth techniques. It describes the techniques Czocrhalski and Bridgman, used for bulk crystal growth, and also Liquid Phase Epitaxy, Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Hot Wall Epitaxy, which are used for the growth of thin layers. The last technique (HWE) is used in the experimental part of this work for the growth of CdTe films on Si(111) substrates. The characterization of the produced samples is done by Atomic Force Microscopy. The results obtained about the nucleation process of CdTe on Si(111) are presented and the possibility of the use of this technique in the production of self-assembled quantum dots is discussed.

The development of a quantum computer presents one of the greatest challenges in science and engineering to date. The promise of more ecient computing based on entangled quantum states and the superposition principle has led to a worldwide explosion of interest in the elds of quantum information and computation. Decoherence is one of the main problems that gives rise to dierent errors in the quantum system. However, the discovery of quantum error correction and the establishment of the accuracy threshold theorem provide us comprehensive tools to build a quantum computer. This thesis contributes to this eort by investigating a particular class of quantum error correcting codes, called Decoherence free subsystems. The passive approach to error correction taken by these encodings provides an ecient means of protection for symmetrically coupled system-bath interactions. Here I will present methods for determining the subsystem-preserving evolutions for noiseless subsystem encodings and more importantly implementing a Universal quantum computing over three-quantum dots.