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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

Residual entropies for three-dimensional frustrated spin systems with tensor networks
L Vanderstraeten, B Vanhecke, F Verstraete
– Physical Review E
(2018)
98,
042145
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.98.042145)
Mapping Topological to Conformal Field Theories through strange Correlators.
R Vanhove, M Bal, DJ Williamson, N Bultinck, J Haegeman, F Verstraete
– Phys Rev Lett
(2018)
121,
177203
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.177203)
Simulating excitation spectra with projected entangled-pair states
L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete
(2018)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.06747)
Quasiparticles in Quantum Spin Chains with Long-Range Interactions.
L Vanderstraeten, M Van Damme, HP Büchler, F Verstraete
– Physical review letters
(2018)
121,
090603
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.090603)
Quasiparticles in quantum spin chains with long-range interactions
L Vanderstraeten, M Van Damme, HP Büchler, F Verstraete
(2018)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.00769)
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
– Physical Review B
(2018)
97,
235155
(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.97.235155)
Residual entropies for three-dimensional frustrated spin systems with tensor networks
L Vanderstraeten, B Vanhecke, F Verstraete
(2018)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.10598)
Global anomaly detection in two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases
N Bultinck, R Vanhove, J Haegeman, F Verstraete
(2018)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02314)
Global Anomaly Detection in Two-Dimensional Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases.
N Bultinck, R Vanhove, J Haegeman, F Verstraete
– Phys Rev Lett
(2018)
120,
156601
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.156601)
T3NS: Three-Legged Tree Tensor Network States.
K Gunst, F Verstraete, S Wouters, Ö Legeza, D Van Neck
– Journal of chemical theory and computation
(2018)
14,
2026
(doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00098)
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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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