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

S matrix from matrix product states.

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

– Physical Review Letters

(2014)

112,

257202

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.257202)

Approximating Gibbs states of local Hamiltonians efficiently with PEPS

A Molnár, N Schuch, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.2973)

Chebyshev expansion for Impurity Models using Matrix Product States

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

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.1209)

Tree tensor network state study of the ionic-neutral curve crossing of LiF

V Murg, F Verstraete, R Schneider, PR Nagy, O Legeza

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.0981)

Geometry of matrix product states: Metric, parallel transport, and curvature

J Haegeman, M Mariën, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

– Journal of Mathematical Physics

(2014)

55,

021902

(doi: 10.1063/1.4862851)

Conformal Data from Finite Entanglement Scaling

V Stojevic, J Haegeman, IP McCulloch, L Tagliacozzo, F Verstraete

(2014)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.7654)

Edge Theories in Projected Entangled Pair State Models

S Yang, L Lehman, D Poilblanc, K Van Acoleyen, F Verstraete, JI Cirac, N Schuch

– Phys Rev Lett

(2014)

112,

036402

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.036402)

Matrix product states for Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories

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

– Proceedings of Science

(2014)

Part F130500,

The Computational Complexity of Density Functional Theory

JD Whitfield, N Schuch, F Verstraete

(2014)

Part F1112,

245

(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06379-9_14)

An Information-Theoretic Proof of the Constructive Commutative Quantum Lovász Local Lemma

M Schwarz, TS Cubitt, F Verstraete

(2013)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.6474)

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