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

Quantum state discrimination bounds for finite sample size

KMR Audenaert, M Mosonyi, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.0711)

Preparing topological PEPS on a quantum computer

M Schwarz, TS Cubitt, K Temme, F Verstraete, D Perez-Garcia

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.4050)

Calculus of continuous matrix product states

J Haegeman, JI Cirac, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3935)

Geometry of Matrix Product States: metric, parallel transport and curvature

J Haegeman, M Mariën, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.7710)

The continuum limit of a tensor network: a path integral representation

C Brockt, J Haegeman, D Jennings, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5401)

Matrix product states for critical spin chains: Finite-size versus finite-entanglement scaling

B Pirvu, G Vidal, F Verstraete, L Tagliacozzo

– Physical Review B

(2012)

86,

075117

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.86.075117)

Algebraic Bethe ansatz and tensor networks

V Murg, VE Korepin, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

(2012)

86,

045125

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.86.045125)

Stochastic exclusion processes versus coherent transport

K Temme, MM Wolf, F Verstraete

– New Journal of Physics

(2012)

14,

075004

(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/075004)

Matrix product states for critical spin chains: finite size scaling versus finite entanglement scaling

B Pirvu, G Vidal, F Verstraete, L Tagliacozzo

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.3934)

Variational matrix product ansatz for dispersion relations

J Haegeman, B Pirvu, DJ Weir, JI Cirac, TJ Osborne, H Verschelde, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.2286)