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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

Tensor-network approach to phase transitions in string-net models
A Schotte, J Carrasco, B Vanhecke, L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete, J Vidal
– Physical Review B
(2019)
10,
245125
(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.100.245125)
Simulating Lattice Gauge Theories within Quantum Technologies
MC Bañuls, R Blatt, J Catani, A Celi, JI Cirac, M Dalmonte, L Fallani, K Jansen, M Lewenstein, S Montangero, CA Muschik, B Reznik, E Rico, L Tagliacozzo, K Van Acoleyen, F Verstraete, U-J Wiese, M Wingate, J Zakrzewski, P Zoller
(2019)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.00003)
A Tensor Version of the Quantum Wielandt Theorem
M Michaek, T Seynnaeve, F Verstraete
– SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
(2019)
40,
1125
(doi: 10.1137/18M1227664)
A scaling hypothesis for matrix product states
B Vanhecke, J Haegeman, K Van Acoleyen, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete
(2019)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.08603)
Approaching the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition for the classical XY model with tensor networks
L Vanderstraeten, B Vanhecke, AM Laeuchli, F Verstraete
(2019)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.04576)
Cardy states, defect lines and chiral operators of coset CFTs on the lattice
L Lootens, R Vanhove, F Verstraete
(2019)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.02520)
The Three-Legged Tree Tensor Networks with SU(2)- and molecular point group symmetry
K Gunst, F Verstraete, D Van Neck
(2019)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.08926)
Topological nature of spinons and holons: Elementary excitations from matrix product states with conserved symmetries
V Zauner-Stauber, L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, IP McCulloch, F Verstraete
(2019)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.07197)
Variational optimization algorithms for uniform matrix product states
V Zauner-Stauber, L Vanderstraeten, MT Fishman, F Verstraete, J Haegeman
(2019)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.07035)
Three-Legged Tree Tensor Networks with SU(2) and Molecular Point Group Symmetry
K Gunst, F Verstraete, D Van Neck
– Journal of chemical theory and computation
(2019)
15,
2996
(doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00071)
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Research Group

Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

Room

B0.15

Personal homepage

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

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