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

Excitations and the tangent space of projected entangled-pair states

L Vanderstraeten, M Mariën, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.02151)

The entanglement of distillation for gauge theories

K Van Acoleyen, N Bultinck, J Haegeman, M Marien, VB Scholz, F Verstraete

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.04369)

Truncating an exact Matrix Product State for the XY model: transfer matrix and its renormalisation

MM Rams, V Zauner, M Bal, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2607)

Excitations and the tangent space of projected entangled-pair states

L Vanderstraeten, M Mariën, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

– Physical Review B

(2015)

92,

201111

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.201111)

Tensor networks for gauge field theories

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

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.04288)

Efficient DMFT impurity solver using real-time dynamics with matrix product states

M Ganahl, M Aichhorn, HG Evertz, P Thunström, K Held, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B

(2015)

92,

155132

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.92.155132)

Scattering particles in quantum spin chains

L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.01008)

Shadows of anyons and the entanglement structure of topological phases

J Haegeman, V Zauner, N Schuch, F Verstraete

– Nature communications

(2015)

6,

8284

(doi: 10.1038/ncomms9284)

Scattering particles in quantum spin chains

L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

– Physical Review B

(2015)

92,

125136

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.125136)

Efficient DMFT impurity solver using real-time dynamics with Matrix Product States

M Ganahl, M Aichhorn, P Thunström, K Held, HG Evertz, F Verstraete

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.6728)