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Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

 

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

Quantum computation and quantum-state engineering driven by dissipation
F Verstraete, MM Wolf, J Ignacio Cirac
– Nature Physics
(2009)
5,
633
Matrix Product States, Projected Entangled Pair States, and variational renormalization group methods for quantum spin systems
F Verstraete, JI Cirac, V Murg
(2009)
Matrix product states for dynamical simulation of infinite chains
MC Bañuls, MB Hastings, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
– Physical review letters
(2009)
102,
240603
Matrix Product States for dynamical simulation of infinite chains
MC Bañuls, MB Hastings, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
(2009)
Exploring frustrated spin systems using projected entangled pair states
V Murg, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(2009)
79,
195119
Quantum circuits for strongly correlated quantum systems
F Verstraete, JI Cirac, JI Latorre
– Physical Review A
(2009)
79,
032316
Renormalization algorithm with graph enhancement
R Hübener, C Kruszynska, L Hartmann, W Dür, F Verstraete, J Eisert, MB Plenio
– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
(2009)
79,
022317
Exploring frustrated spin-systems using Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS)
V Murg, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
(2009)
Creation, manipulation, and detection of Abelian and non-Abelian anyons in optical lattices
M Aguado, GK Brennen, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
(2009)
Creation, manipulation, and detection of abelian and non-abelian anyons in optical lattices
M Aguado, GK Brennen, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
– Physical review letters
(2008)
101,
260501
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