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

Exploiting translational invariance in Matrix Product State simulations of spin chains with periodic boundary conditions

B Pirvu, F Verstraete, G Vidal

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.5195)

Fermionic projected entangled pair states

CV Kraus, N Schuch, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical Review A

(2010)

81,

052338

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.81.052338)

Continuous matrix product states for quantum fields

F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Phys Rev Lett

(2010)

104,

190405

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.190405)

Holographic quantum states

TJ Osborne, J Eisert, F Verstraete

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.1268)

Complete-Graph Tensor Network States: A New Fermionic Wave Function Ansatz for Molecules

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

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.5303)

Stochastic exclusion processes versus coherent transport

K Temme, MM Wolf, F Verstraete

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.0858)

Simulation of interacting fermions with entanglement renormalization

P Corboz, G Evenbly, F Verstraete, G Vidal

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0904.4151)

Matrix product operator representations

B Pirvu, V Murg, JI Cirac, F Verstraete

– New Journal of Physics

(2010)

12,

025012

(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/025012)

Continuous Matrix Product States for Quantum Fields

F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2010)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.1824)

Simulation of interacting fermions with entanglement renormalization

P Corboz, G Evenbly, F Verstraete, G Vidal

– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

(2010)

81,

010303

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.81.010303)