Theoretical Physics by day. Computational headaches by night.
I’m Dora. I build models to understand how the universe works and write code to prove myself wrong.
This is a minimal space for my formal papers, my side-projects, and the half-baked ideas that are currently keeping me awake.
Recent
- Project Jun 16, 2026 Photon-Number-Splitting Attacks on BB84
A computational quantum-cryptography project simulating the **Photon-Number-Splitting (PNS) attack** against a noisy, lossy four-state BB84 channel, quantifying the information leaked through multiphoton pulses and locating the secrecy-capacity threshold where the secret-key rate drops to zero.
- Concept Apr 28, 2026 BB84 Quantum Key Distribution : The Protocol
The continuation: how qubits, measurement bases, and the no-cloning theorem come together into the BB84 protocol, and how Alice and Bob catch Eve in the act.
- Concept Apr 6, 2026 The DFT Roadmap: From Theory to Quantum ESPRESSO and AKAI KKR — Part 1
A self-contained mathematical introduction to Density Functional Theory: from the many-body Schrödinger equation through the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, the Hohenberg-Kohn theorems, the Kohn-Sham equations, exchange-correlation functionals, and model-Hamiltonian extensions.
- Concept Apr 4, 2026 Eukaryotic Gene Structure (Overview)
The differences between eukaryotic genomic DNA and mature messenger RNA (mRNA).
- Idea Apr 2, 2026 Is reality fundamentally made of information?
Exploring the relationship between reality and information.
- Concept Apr 2, 2026 BB84 Quantum Key Distribution : Fundamentals
An overview of the first quantum cryptography protocol proposed by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in 1984.
- Project Feb 22, 2026 Bohr Model Simulation
A computational physics project simulating the **Bohr model** of the hydrogen atom, including electron orbital dynamics, energy level calculations, emission spectra, and quantum wave functions.
- Concept Jan 6, 2026 Graphs, Games, and Quantum Secrets
How graph theory and game theory can be leveraged to optimize and analyze quantum cryptographic protocols