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New Quantum Information Science Study at BSU: A Theoretical Study and Research Towards PIC Generation of Entangled Photons
Get PDFThe first part of this thesis explores the abstract quantum state vector space using Dirac formalism, providing a comprehensive analysis of quantum mechanics’ fundamental concepts. Emphasis is placed on the Dirac notation’s pivotal role in elucidating quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement. Through detailed examinations of quantum states, polarization, and the CHSH inequality, this study not only reinforces the theoretical foundations of quantum information science but also demonstrates its practical applications in quantum information and quantum computing. The discussion delves into the manipulation of qubits and quantum gates, showing the potential of quantum information theory in enhancing computational efficiencies and securing communication. The second part of this thesis focuses on experimental research conducted on photonic integrated circuits (PICs), with a particular interest in the Stimulated Four-Fave Mixing (FWM) process within an integrated microring resonator. The experiments detail the preparation, manipulation, and measurement of light within micro-ring resonators on silicon photonic chips. Key results include the successful generation of idler signals through stimulated FWM, validated by precise spectral measurements. The analysis emphasizes the efficiency and phase matching conditions critical for optimizing the FWM process, shown through the calculation of the parameter η
Kappa Delta Phi and Football at Bridgewater State Normal School
Get PDFThe BSU fraternity, Kappa Delta Phi, has had a strong connection to the Bridgewater State football program. The original Alpha chapter of the fraternity was founded by Bridgewater students in 1900, many of whom played football, along with other sports. This paper, written by Michael Hughes, class of 1965, puts both the fraternity\u27s early years and the early years of football on campus into historical context
The Transformation of the Commercial Airline Industry by Frequent Flyer Programs
Get PDFFrequent flyer programs (FFPs) started in the 1950s as rudimentary punchcard programs tracking limited customer information. However, at present, they are some of the most dynamic and complex loyalty programs in the world: maintaining external partnerships that have diversified industry economics with billions in annual co-branded revenue; agglomerating big data to create detailed customer profiles, determining their willingness to pay, and dynamically set pricing thereafter; and generating commercial value often exceeding the market capitalizations of their respective carriers. This paper leverages extensive secondary sources to portray the evolution of FFPs and their impact on the larger industry through every major iteration—from pre- and post-co-branded credit cards to the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary environment. With every iteration came a greater, more complicated integration of FFPs with revenue management as airlines increasingly leverage[d] and manipulate[d] customer loyalty for financial returns. This integration was/is only accelerated by big data and artificial intelligence which have evolved the commercial airline industry from being oriented on mass markets to a segment or customer of one. Nevertheless, growing external partnerships also fuel this change as FFPs and their operating economics evolve from isolated, standalone programs to globally interconnected ones bridging airlines, alliances, and continents. While the future potential of FFPs largely depends on their ability to continue isolating a market of one, proposed governmental action threatens to implicate existing structures and the larger industry as FFPs assume increasing relevance in everyday customer spending
The Other Dimensions of Dalit Oppression: Tracing Intersectionality through Ants among Elephants
Get PDFThis paper demonstrates how gender abuse is not merely restricted to hierarchical gender oppression but also operates within an intersectional framework where gender is intertwined with hierarchical caste exploitation. While revisiting White bourgeois feminism, bell hooks emphasizes the incorporation of different marginal perspectives to make feminism an all-encompassing radical movement, accessible to everyone. Inspired by the lens that hooks uses to interpret Black feminism and the Indian scholars who approach Dalit feminism from an intersectional standpoint, I analyze Sujatha Gidla’s autobiography Ants among Elephants (2017), a family story of a lower-middle-class rural South Indian Dalit woman. I argue for the need to bring different axes of oppression—such as inter-caste and intra-caste dimensions along with linguistic and regional hierarchies—into conversation with each other. The primary focus of my analysis of the autobiography are three topics—the narrative voice, the author’s personal experience, and the intersectional aspect of domination in Dalit women’s experience as recounted in the text. My paper highlights the literary aspect of the text by tracing Dalit rage in the narratorial voice that undercuts the mostly objective family narrative, following hooks’ reconceptualization of Black rage. Dalit representation is shaped and informed by the psychological consequence of internalized inferiority as a result of looking at themselves and being looked at by others only in terms of absence. Bearing in mind that every strand in the interlocked webs of oppression critically informs the other, ignoring any one strand at the cost of another might render the task of liberation truncated and incomplete. This study, therefore, brings to the fore the need to address interlocking strands of oppression if a struggle for the liberation of any marginalized group can have a real impact on society
Transformed Feminist Spaces and Identity Construction: Women Pandwani Performers in Indian Folk Theater
Get PDFTheater proposes an alternative reality and different possible identities offering a framework of how representation works in performances, and it further provides an understanding of the transformative potential of enactment. The attempt to retrieve and re-write women’s histories through performances develops a culture of reconstructive capacities that resists absorption into the dominant culture. In theater, women have asserted their own vision and exercised their own viewpoints, expanding feminist space and communicating with spectators by employing publicly encoded signs. The folk theater of India, in particular, provides a public space to the (silenced) subaltern to assert agency and question the modalities of power, exclusion, images, and strategies that marginalize women. The paper examines Indian women’s roles on stage and in the folk theater of Chhattisgarh from the 1980s onwards and shows how feminist performances redefine gender binaries and contest popular consciousness. By voicing women’s perspectives, the women performers and women narrators of the epic Mahabharata in folk performances restructure and alter the stage. This paper explores themes of gender, power, construction of theatrical space, and the shifts in feminist positioning created by Teejan Bai and other women Pandwani performers and Kathagayakas
