Alexander Kemper
Bio
Dr. Kemper received his PhD in Physics in 2010 from the University of Florida. He spent 2 years as a postdoctoral research at Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory followed by serving as an Alvarez Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining the faculty at NC State in 2015 as an assistant professor.
During his PhD studies and continuing during his postdoctoral career, he used computational techniques to study the high-Tc cuprate superconductors, and the novel Fe-based superconductors that were discovered in 2006. Using a combination of Density Functional Theory, Quantum Cluster methods and computational modeling he addressed several aspects of the normal and superconducting states in these materials. Of particular note are a study of the gap symmetry in the Fe-based superconductors, as well as a joint experimental-theory paper showing the presence of four-fold symmetry breaking above the ordering temperatures in Co-doped BaFe2As2.
Area(s) of Expertise
Starting during his postdoctoral career, and continuing now at NC State, he has embarked on a separate research project in non-equilibrium physics of complex materials. Non-equilibrium phenomena are studied experimentally using ultrafast lasers, which perturb the material under study and observing the subsequent dynamics. He has developed a set of software tools that theoretically model the pump-probe process in a variety of systems, which has to the first theoretical examinations of the pump-probe process. This has led to a series of works answering fundamental questions in non-equilibrium physics as well as collaborative works with experimentalists using pump-probe techniques to answer questions in materials physics.
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Publications
- Classification of dynamical Lie algebras generated by spin interactions on undirected graphs , Journal of Mathematical Physics (2026)
- Coherent control of asymmetric spintronic terahertz emission from two-dimensional hybrid metal halides , UNC Libraries (2026)
- Efficient quantum implementation of dynamical mean field theory for correlated materials , npj Computational Materials (2026)
- Fast scrambling in the Hyperbolic Ising model , The European Physical Journal C (2026)
- Hidden local adiabatic ramp in the modulated time evolution and the quantum approximate optimization algorithm , APL Quantum (2026)
- JIMWLK on a quantum computer , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2026)
- Probing bound state relaxation dynamics in systems out-of-equilibrium on quantum computers , APL Computational Physics (2026)
- Quantum Ising model on ( 2 + 1 )-dimensional anti–de Sitter space using tensor networks , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2026)
- Quantum simulation of massive Thirring and Gross--Neveu models for arbitrary number of flavors -- Dataset , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)
- Quantum simulation of massive Thirring and Gross-Neveu models for arbitrary number of flavors , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2026)