Peer-reviewed articles

A trace distance-based geometric analysis of the stabilizer polytope for few-qubit systems

Alberto Palhares, Santiago Zamora, Rafael A. Macêdo, Tailan S. Sarubi, Joab M. Varela, Gabriel W. C. Rocha, Darlan A. Moreira, Rafael Chaves

Physics Letters A · 2026

Investigation of the geometry of the stabilizer polytope in few-qubit quantum systems, using the trace distance to the stabilizer set to quantify non-stabilizerness.

Computational Modeling of a Star: A Theoretical and Numerical Approach (pt-br)

Gabriel W. C. Rocha

Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 47 · 2025

Theoretical and numerical modeling (with implementation in Python) of a static, non-magnetic star.

Generalization to d-dimensions of a fermionic path integral for exact enumeration of polygons on hypercubic lattices

M. Ostilli, G. W. C. Rocha, C. G. Bezerra, G. M. Viswanathan

Scientific Reports (Nature), 14(1) · 2024

Extension of a fermionic path integral formalism for enumerating polygons to arbitrary dimensions.

The limb darkening via transit modeling and Bayesian inference (pt-br)

G. Zuza Diniz, G. W. C. Rocha, E. N. Velloso, Eliardo G. Costa, J. D. do Nascimento Jr.

Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 44(11) · 2022

Study of stellar limb darkening coefficients via transit modeling and Bayesian parameter estimation.

Submitted / in preparation

A Machine Learning and Neural Network Approach to Flood Forecasting in the Wupper River.

Gabriel W. C. Rocha, Alberto Palhares, Joab M. Varela, Eliardo G. Costa, and Rafael Chaves

Approved for publication in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências

Application and comparison of machine learning and neural networks for flood forecasting in the Wupper River basin in Germany.

Conference Contributions & Proceedings

Unsupervised Topological and Contrastive Representation Learning for Galaxy Morphological Analysis

G. W. C. Rocha, G. M. Viswanathan, L. A. Almeida

Boletim da Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira, vol. 37 · 2026 · Proceedings | GitHub Project

Integrates TDA and SSL to investigate the unsupervised clustering of galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset.

Analysis of the period-luminosity relation for Cepheids

G. W. C. Rocha, J. Aires, L. A. Almeida

Boletim da Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira, vol. 36 · 2025 · Proceedings | GitHub Project

Statistical analysis using Markov Chain Monte Carlo of a sample of Cepheid stars by Riess et al. 2011.