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 states for gauge field theories

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

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.6654)

Entanglement Rates and the Stability of the Area Law for the Entanglement Entropy

M Mariën, KMR Audenaert, K Van Acoleyen, F Verstraete

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.0680)

Matrix product states for Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories

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

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.0020)

Linear-optical generation of eigenstates of the two-site XY model

S Barz, B Dakic, YO Lipp, F Verstraete, JD Whitfield, P Walther

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.1099)

Faster identification of optimal contraction sequences for tensor networks

RNC Pfeifer, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

(2014)

90,

033315

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.033315)

Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators

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

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.2150)

Quantum Chi-Squared and Goodness of Fit Testing

K Temme, F Verstraete

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.6343)

Matrix product states for gauge field theories.

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

– Phys Rev Lett

(2014)

113,

091601

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.091601)

Chebyshev expansion for impurity models using matrix product states

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

– Physical Review B

(2014)

90,

045144

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.045144)

S matrix from matrix product states

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.6793)