Professor Frank Verstraete | Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

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Career

Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge (2022- )

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ghent University (2012 - )

Professor of Physics, University of Vienna (2006 - 2019)

Research scholar, Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech (2004-2006)

Research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (2002 - 2004)

Research

Research in my group is focused on understanding the role of entanglement in quantum computation and in interacting quantum many-body systems. We are developing the theory of quantum tensor networks, devise novel computational methods for optimizing them, and apply those to problems in condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, atomic physics, statistical physics and quantum computing.

See https://quantumghent.github.io/research/ for more info.

Selected Publications

You can find most of my publications on the arXiv or on Google Scholar.

Publications

The $\chi ^2$χ2-divergence and mixing times of quantum Markov processes

K Temme, MJ Kastoryano, MB Ruskai, MM Wolf, F Verstraete

– Journal of Mathematical Physics

(2010)

51,

122201

(doi: 10.1063/1.3511335)

Mutual information in classical spin models

J Wilms, M Troyer, F Verstraete

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.4421)

Simulating strongly correlated quantum systems with tree tensor networks

V Murg, F Verstraete, Ö Legeza, RM Noack

– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

(2010)

82,

205105

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.82.205105)

Simulations Based on Matrix Product States and Projected Entangled Pair States

V Murg, I Cirac, F Verstraete

(2010)

20103812,

571

(doi: 10.1201/b10273-28)

Simulations Based on Matrix Product States and Projected Entangled Pair States

V Murg, I Cirac, F Verstraete

(2010)

599

(doi: 10.1201/b10273-32)

Complete-graph tensor network states: A new fermionic wave function ansatz for molecules

KH Marti, B Bauer, M Reiher, M Troyer, F Verstraete

– New Journal of Physics

(2010)

12,

103008

(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/10/103008)

Quantum Metropolis Sampling

K Temme, TJ Osborne, KG Vollbrecht, D Poulin, F Verstraete

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.3635)

Computational Complexity of interacting electrons and fundamental limitations of Density Functional Theory

N Schuch, F Verstraete

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0712.0483)

Stochastic Matrix Product States

K Temme, F Verstraete

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.2545)

Simulating Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems with Tree Tensor Networks

V Murg, Ö Legeza, RM Noack, F Verstraete

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.3095)