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Efekan Kokcu

 

Biography

Efekan Kokcu came to UCF from the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow. He received his doctoral degree in quantum computation from North Carolina State University, after he achieved his master’s degree in physics from Bilkent University, Turkey.

While his main research topic is quantum computing, his research interests also include quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation, simulation of physical systems, Lie algebraic methods for quantum computation, variational quantum algorithms and their trainability, quantum error mitigation and error correction.

Research Interests

  • Quantum Computation
  • Quantum Simulation Algorithms
  • Vocational Quantum Algorithms
  • Quantum Compilation

 

Publications

  • (2024) Kökcü, E., Labib, H. A., Freericks, J. K. & Kemper, A. F. A linear response framework for simulating bosonic and fermionic correlation functions illustrated on quantum computers, Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 3881
  • (2024) Wieserma, R., Kökcü, E., Kemper, A. F. & Bakalov, B. N., Classification of dynamical Lie algebras of 2-local spin systems on linear, circular and fully connected topologies, npj Quantum Information, 10.1 (2024): 110.
  • (2023) Steckmann, T., Keen, T., Kökcü, E., Kemper, A. F., Dumitrescu, E. F., & Wang, Y. Mapping the metal-insulator phase diagram by algebraically fast-forwarding dynamics on a cloud quantum computer, Phys. Rev. Research 5, 023198
  • (2022) Kökcü, E., Steckmann, T., Wang, Y., Freericks, J. K., Dumitrescu, E. F., & Kemper, A. F. Fixed depth Hamiltonian simulation via Cartan decomposition. Physical Review Letters, 129(7), 070501.
  • (2022) Kökcü, E., Camps, D., Bassman Oftelie, L., Freericks, J. K., de Jong, W. A., Van Beeumen, R., & Kemper, A. F. Algebraic compression of quantum circuits for Hamiltonian evolution. Physical Review A, 105(3), 032420.
  • (2022) Camps, D., Kökcü, E., Bassman Oftelie, L., de Jong, W. A., Kemper, A. F., & Beeumen, R. V. An algebraic quantum circuit compression algorithm for hamiltonian simulation. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 43(3), 1084-1108.