Andrzej Więckowski, Ph.D.

Abstract

Welcome to the personal webpage of Andrzej Więckowski, a software developer with a strong academic background. As a software developer, Andrzej is currently focused on simulations and game engines, leveraging his expertise in both programming and physics to contribute to innovative projects in the field.

1 About me

In my free time, I develop the PBD2D engine — a physics engine for two-dimensional soft-body simulations within the Unity Burst compiler. You can find demo scenes for this project here. Additionally, I actively develop Burst Triangulator, an efficient Unity Delaunay triangulation package with constraints and refinement support. I highly appreciate values like minimalism and simplicity. I am primarily interested in:

I'm passionate about all things related to science 🤓.

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2 Projects To see more projects visit andywiecko.

PBD2D

Unity package for Position Based Dynamics in two dimensions. Demo

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Flocking

Mini project which implements brute-force flocking model. Demo

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BurstTriangulator

A single-file package which provides simple Delaunay triangulation of the given set of points with mesh refinement.

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3 CV

3.1 Education

During my academic career, my research was primarily focused on quantum mechanics in the context of solid-state physics, particularly Majorana zero modes, and quantum computing, specifically quantum annealing. I collaborated extensively with Professor M. Mierzejewski's group, Dr. B. Gardas's group, and Dr. A. Ptok's group. As a result, I successfully published several papers. Below, you can find a table summarizing my educational progress.

Degree Year
Ph.D. degree, thesis: Majorana Modes in one dimensional systems with many-body interactions 🇵🇱, awarded with distinction, supervisor: Prof. M. Mierzejewski, co-supervisor: Dr. Bartłomiej Gardas. 2020
Ph.D. in physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology. 2018–2020
Master Degree, thesis: Dynamics of disordered quantum annealers 🇬🇧, awarded with distinction, supervisor: Prof. M. Mierzejewski. 2018
MS, Theoretical physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 2016–2018
B.Eng., Engineering physics, thesis: Numerical methods in quantum nanowires 🇵🇱, awarded with distinction, supervisor: Prof. M. Mierzejewski. 2016
Inter-Faculty Individual Studies: Engineering physics and Computer science, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 2013–2016
Academic progress: from bachelor to Ph.D.

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3.2 Conferences

List of the most significant conferences I attended to.

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3.3 Publications

  1. A. Więckowski, A. Ptok, M. Mierzejewski, M. Kupczynski, Efficient identification of Majorana modes in large tight-binding systems, Comput. Phys. Commun. 269, 108135 (2021). ariv:2006.10153v2
  2. K. Jałowiecki, A. Więckowski, P. Gawron, B. Gardas, Parallel in time dynamics with quantum annealers, Sci. Rep. 10, 13534 (2020).
    ariv:1909.04929v2
  3. A. Więckowski, A. Ptok, Dynamics of quantum annealers – Ising model with transverse field study, Acta Phys. Pol. A 138, 686 (2020).
  4. A. Więckowski, M. Mierzejewski, M. Kupczyński, Majorana phase-gate based on the geometric phase, Phys. Rev. B 101, 014504 (2020). ariv:1909.10237v1
  5. A. Więckowski, S. Deffner, B. Gardas, Disorder-assisted graph coloring on quantum annealers, Phys. Rev. A 100, 062304 (2019). ariv:1903.07056v1
  6. A. Więckowski, A. Ptok, Influence of long-range interaction on Majorana zero modes, Phys. Rev. B 100, 144510 (2019). ariv:1910.00872v1
  7. A. Więckowski, M.M. Maśka, M. Mierzejewski, Majorana modes in interacting systems identified by searching for local integrals of motion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040504 (2018). ariv:1707.08125v2
  8. A. Więckowski, Majorana states in the Kitaev model with many-body interactions, Proceedings of the silesian cross-border workshop on applied physics, ISBN: 978-80-248-3974-5 (2016).
  9. A. Więckowski, Symulowane wyżarzanie problemu kolorowania grafu Unpublished, polish only

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4 Teaching

During my Ph.D. studies, I conducted several classes, including:

See sub-page Teaching for more details.

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