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Professor Frank Verstraete

 

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

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
(2010)
81,
010303
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.010303)
Simulations based on matrix product states and projected entangled pair states
V Murg, I Cirac, F Verstraete
(2010)
571
(doi: 10.1201/b10273)
Renormalization and tensor product states in spin chains and lattices
JI Cirac, F Verstraete
– Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
(2009)
42,
504004
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/50/504004)
Variational matrix-product-state approach to quantum impurity models
A Weichselbaum, F Verstraete, U Schollwöck, JI Cirac, J von Delft
– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(2009)
80,
165117
(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.80.165117)
Renormalization and tensor product states in spin chains and lattices
JI Cirac, F Verstraete
(2009)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.1130)
Computational complexity of interacting electrons and fundamental limitations of density functional theory
N Schuch, F Verstraete
– Nature Physics
(2009)
5,
732
(doi: 10.1038/NPHYS1370)
Quantum many-body wavefunctions from the point of view of entanglement and quantum information theory
F Verstraete
– ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2009)
238,
(link to publication)
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Research Group

Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

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B0.15

Personal homepage

http://www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk/person/fv285

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