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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

Classical simulation of infinite-size quantum lattice systems in two spatial dimensions
J Jordan, R Orús, G Vidal, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
– Physical review letters
(2008)
101,
250602
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.250602)
One-shot entanglement generation over long distances in noisy quantum networks
S Perseguers, L Jiang, N Schuch, F Verstraete, MD Lukin, JI Cirac, KGH Vollbrecht
– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
(2008)
78,
062324
(doi: 10.1103/physreva.78.062324)
Classical simulation of infinite-size quantum lattice systems in two spatial dimensions
J Jordan, R Orus, G Vidal, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
(2008)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0703788)
The computational difficulty of finding MPS ground states
N Schuch, I Cirac, F Verstraete
(2008)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.3351)
Matrix product states, projected entangled pair states, and variational renormalization group methods for quantum spin systems
F Verstraete, V Murg, JI Cirac
– Advances in Physics
(2008)
57,
143
(doi: 10.1080/14789940801912366)
Peps as unique ground states of local hamiltonians
D Perez-Garcia, F Verstraete, JI Cirac, MM Wolf
– Quantum Information and Computation
(2008)
8,
650
(doi: 10.26421/qic8.6-7-6)
PEPS as unique ground states of local Hamiltonians
D Perez-Garcia, F Verstraete, MM Wolf, JI Cirac
– QUANTUM INFORMATION & COMPUTATION
(2008)
8,
650
(link to publication)
One-shot entanglement generation over long distances in noisy quantum networks
S Perseguers, L Jiang, N Schuch, F Verstraete, MD Lukin, JI Cirac, KGH Vollbrecht
(2008)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0807.0208)
Computational difficulty of finding matrix product ground states
N Schuch, I Cirac, F Verstraete
– Physical review letters
(2008)
100,
250501
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.250501)
Variational matrix product state approach to quantum impurity models
A Weichselbaum, F Verstraete, U Schollwöck, JI Cirac, J von Delft
(2008)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0504305)
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Research Group

Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

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B0.15

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

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