Variables associated with the use of bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP): Evaluation through testing and simulation integration

Background:<br/>The leading cause of the death of children under the age of 5 are complications associated with premature birth. A widely used ventilation modality is bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP),which is used predominantly for neonates and infants with respiratory distress. bCPAP makes use of a flow of air and oxygen from...

Non-commutative differentiation and estimates on operator integrals

In 2017 Martijn Caspers, Fedor Sukochev and Dmitriy Zanin published a paper which generalises the proof of Davies' 1988 paper, and thus resolves the Nazarov-Peller conjecture. The proofs of these papers have been presented in this thesis. They have been expanded with a proof that generalises the conjecture to arbitrary Schatten classes. The...

Characterisation of Transmon qubit chips

Quantum computing may be the key to solving many of the problems our modern world faces today. Just as regular computers boosted our computing power to scales never imagined before, so too could quantum computers allow us to solve problems that we just do not yet have the computational power for. However, a properly functioning quantum computer...