Lucas Kocia
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Alumni, NRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact Information
- lkocia@umiacs.umd.edu
- Office:
3100N Atlantic Building
- Office Phone:
- (301) 314-1844
Bio
Lucas Kocia was a NIST NRC Postdoctoral Associate at QuICS from 2017-2019 working on complexity theory using algebras with associated (discrete) symplectic phase spaces. His research interests lie in connecting semiclassics and path integral expansions in terms of Planck's constant with the computational complexity of problems. This involves topics such as the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal formalism, discrete Wigner functions, van Vleck propagation, stoquastic Hamiltonians, Clifford operations and quantum contextuality. Lucas received his doctorate in chemical physics from Harvard University in 2016. Lucas is a postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA.
Recent Publications
Behavior of Analog Quantum Algorithms
, , arXiv:2107.01218, (2021)2107.01218.pdfStationary Phase Method in Discrete Wigner Functions and Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits
, , Quantum, 5, 494, (2021)The non-disjoint ontic states of the Grassmann ontological model, transformation contextuality, and the single qubit stabilizer subtheory
, , Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 52, 095303, (2019)