Professor Frank Verstraete | Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

skip to content

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

Strings, Projected Entangled Pair States, and variational Monte Carlo methods

N Schuch, MM Wolf, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.1567)

Quantum computation, quantum state engineering, and quantum phase transitions driven by dissipation

F Verstraete, MM Wolf, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0803.1447)

Area laws in quantum systems: mutual information and correlations

MM Wolf, F Verstraete, MB Hastings, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0704.3906)

Area Laws in Quantum Systems: Mutual Information and Correlations

MM Wolf, F Verstraete, MB Hastings, JI Cirac

– Physical Review Letters

(2008)

100,

070502

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.070502)

Sequentially generated states for the study of two dimensional systems

M-C Bañuls, D Pérez-García, MM Wolf, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.2472)

Renormalization algorithm with graph enhancement

R Hübener, C Kruszynska, L Hartmann, W Dür, F Verstraete, J Eisert, MB Plenio

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.1211)

Asymptotic error rates in quantum hypothesis testing

KMR Audenaert, M Nussbaum, A Szkoła, F Verstraete

– Communications in Mathematical Physics

(2008)

279,

251

(doi: 10.1007/s00220-008-0417-5)

String order and symmetries in quantum spin lattices

D Perez-Garcia, MM Wolf, M Sanz, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.0447)

Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Systems with Strings of Operators and Monte Carlo Tensor Contractions

N Schuch, MM Wolf, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical review letters

(2008)

100,

040501

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.040501)

Entropy scaling and simulability by Matrix Product States

N Schuch, MM Wolf, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0705.0292)