Professor Frank Verstraete | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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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

Matrix Product Unitaries: Structure, Symmetries, and Topological Invariants

JI Cirac, D Perez-Garcia, N Schuch, F Verstraete

(2017)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.09188)

Quantum Gross-Pitaevskii Equation

J Haegeman, D Draxler, V Stojevic, JI Cirac, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2017)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.103)

Diagonalizing Transfer Matrices and Matrix Product Operators: A Medley of Exact and Computational Methods

J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, VOL 8

(2017)

8,

355

(doi: 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031016-025507)

Quantum Gross-Pitaevskii Equation

J Haegeman, D Draxler, V Stojevic, JI Cirac, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2017)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.102)

Anyons and matrix product operator algebras

N Bultinck, M Mariën, DJ Williamson, MB Şahinoğlu, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2017)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.08090)

Fermionic Matrix Product States and One-Dimensional Topological Phases

N Bultinck, DJ Williamson, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2017)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.07849)

Matrix product density operators: Renormalization fixed points and boundary theories

JI Cirac, D Pérez-García, N Schuch, F Verstraete

– Annals of Physics

(2017)

378,

100

(doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2016.12.030)

Anyons and matrix product operator algebras

N Bultinck, M Mariën, DJ Williamson, MB Şahinoğlu, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– Annals of Physics

(2017)

378,

183

(doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2017.01.004)

Finite-representation approximation of lattice gauge theories at the continuum limit with tensor networks

B Buyens, S Montangero, J Haegeman, F Verstraete, K Van Acoleyen

(2017)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08838)

Entanglement phases as holographic duals of anyon condensates

K Duivenvoorden, M Iqbal, J Haegeman, F Verstraete, N Schuch

(2017)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08469)