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

Maximally entangled mixed states of two qubits

F Verstraete, K Audenaert, T De Bie, B De Moor

(2002)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0011110)

Entanglement versus Bell violations and their behaviour under local filtering operations

F Verstraete, MM Wolf

(2001)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0112012)

A comparison of the entanglement measures negativity and concurrence

F Verstraete, K Audenaert, J Dehaene, B De Moor

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2001)

34,

10327

(doi: 10.1088/0305-4470/34/47/329)

Variational characterizations of separability and entanglement of formation - art. no. 052304

K Audenaert, F Verstraete, B De Moor

– Physical Review A

(2001)

64,

052304

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.052304)

Sensitivity optimization in quantum parameter estimation

F Verstraete, AC Doherty, H Mabuchi

– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

(2001)

64,

12

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.032111)

The Lorentz singular value decomposition and its applications to pure states of 3 qubits

F Verstraete, J Dehaene, B De Moor

(2001)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0108043)

A comparison of the entanglement measures negativity and concurrence

F Verstraete, K Audenaert, J Dehaene, B De Moor

(2001)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0108021)

On the geometry of entangled states

F Verstraete, J Dehaene, B De Moor

(2001)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0107155)

Maximally entangled mixed states of two qubits - art. no. 012316

F Verstraete, K Audenaert, B De Moor

– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

(2001)

64,

6

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.012316)

Local filtering operations on two qubits

F Verstraete, J Dehaene, B DeMoor

– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

(2001)

64,

4

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.64.010101)