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

Finite-size scaling on the torus with periodic projected entangled-pair states

G Fedorovich, L Devos, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete, A Ueda

– Physical Review B

(2025)

111,

165124

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.111.165124)

Low-Depth Unitary Quantum Circuits for Dualities in One-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models.

L Lootens, C Delcamp, D Williamson, F Verstraete

– Phys Rev Lett

(2025)

134,

130403

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.130403)

Matrix product state fixed points of non-Hermitian transfer matrices

W Tang, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

(2025)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.18733)

Local Jordan-Wigner transformations and topological sectors on the torus

O O'Brien, L Lootens, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B

(2025)

111,

115126

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.115126)

Matrix Product Density Operators: Renormalization Fixed Points and Boundary Theories

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

(2025)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.00608)

Fermionic tensor network methods

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

– SciPost Physics

(2025)

18,

012

(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.18.1.012)

Matrix product state fixed points of non-Hermitian transfer matrices

W Tang, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

– Physical Review B

(2025)

111,

035107

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.035107)

Fermionic tensor network methods

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

(2024)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.14611)

Fermionic tensor network methods

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

(2024)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.9583)

Fermionic tensor network methods

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

(2024)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.9426)