Furkan Semih Dündar

He finished his high school in Sakarya Fen Lisesi, in 2007. As he gained the rank 777 in the national university exam in Turkey, he chose to study physics in Bilkent University with full scholarship and graduated with number #1 ranking in the physics department in the year 2012. Then he moved on to Middle East Technical University to study quantum gravity and wrote a MSc. thesis titled "The Firewall Paradox" and graduated in 2014. Between the years 2016 and 2018, he did his PhD. in Boğaziçi University with a thesis titled "Quantum Phenomena and Shape Dynamics." Throughout his higher education, he was supported by TÜBİTAK scholarships at each level. Since 2019, he has been an assistant professor in Amasya University. He has been a visiting professor at the Sakarya University since 2024. He has become an affiliate researcher at the Wolfram Institute in 2025.

Research Interests

  • Foundations of physics

  • Wolfram Model

  • Shape dynamics

  • Leibnizian philosophy

Research Output

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Quantum Operators From Wolfram Model Multiway Systems
Quantum Operators From Wolfram Model Multiway Systems

Furkan Semih Dündar, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla, Hatem Elshatlawy

Using Wolfram Model multiway rewriting systems we have found that by using multiway systems one can construct representations of quantum circuits, showing that one can encode the Hadamard gate, the π/8 gate and the CNOT using multiway rewriting systems. This suggests the possibility of universal quantum computation using multiway rewriting.

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Quantum Gates from Wolfram Model Multiway Rewriting Systems
Quantum Gates from Wolfram Model Multiway Rewriting Systems

Furkan Semih Dündar, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla, Hatem Elshatlawy

We show how representations of finite-dimensional quantum operators can be constructed using nondeterministic rewriting systems. In particular, we investigate Wolfram model multiway rewriting systems based on string substitutions.

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