Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Vinod Kumarappan and his graduate student Varun Makija for welcoming me into the group and guiding me through my first experience of original research. I would also like to thank the Physics Department at Kansas State University for hosting the REU program, and in particular Dr. Kristan Corwin and Dr. Larry Weaver whose invaluable leadership has made the program so successful. However, none of this would be possible without the REU funding from the National Science Foundation.
