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Model Of Electromagnetic Waves In An Axion-Induced Parity Symmetry Violation, Sarah Lipstone May 2021

Model Of Electromagnetic Waves In An Axion-Induced Parity Symmetry Violation, Sarah Lipstone

Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

Axion particles have been postulated to resolve the strong CP problem in Quantum chromodynamics. The axion field may double as the inflaton field that produces cosmic inflation. In this project, we use a combination of analytical and numerical analysis to study how axion-induced parity symmetry violation affects the dynamics of electromagnetic waves.


Application Of Resurgence Theory To Approximate Inverse Square Potential In Quantum Mechanics, Jian Zhang Ms. Jul 2015

Application Of Resurgence Theory To Approximate Inverse Square Potential In Quantum Mechanics, Jian Zhang Ms.

Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

Previous work concluded that the leading term of the energy spectrum of a quantum particle moving in an inverse-square law potential with regulated singularity is non-perturvative in nature. Trans-series and resurgence theory predicts the emergence of perturbative, and potentially logarithmic, corrections to the leading behavior. This talk relates an attempt to systematically calculate such corrections for the first time.