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

Time evolution of projected entangled pair states in the single-layer picture

I Pižorn, L Wang, F Verstraete

– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

(2011)

83,

052321

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.83.052321)

Quantum simulation of time-dependent hamiltonians and the convenient illusion of hilbert space

D Poulin, A Qarry, R Somma, F Verstraete

– Physical review letters

(2011)

106,

170501

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.170501)

Monte Carlo simulation with tensor network states

L Wang, I Pižorn, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

(2011)

83,

134421

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.134421)

Exploiting translational invariance in matrix product state simulations of spin chains with periodic boundary conditions

B Pirvu, F Verstraete, G Vidal

– Physical Review B

(2011)

83,

125104

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.125104)

Entanglement spectrum and boundary theories with projected entangled-pair states

JI Cirac, D Poilblanc, N Schuch, F Verstraete

(2011)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.3427)

A matrix product state based algorithm for determining dispersion relations of quantum spin chains with periodic boundary conditions

B Pirvu, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2011)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.2735)

Time evolution of projected entangled pair states in the single layer picture

I Pizorn, L Wang, F Verstraete

(2011)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.2343)

Monte Carlo simulation with Tensor Network States

L Wang, I Pizorn, F Verstraete

(2011)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.5450)

Quantum Metropolis sampling.

K Temme, TJ Osborne, KG Vollbrecht, D Poulin, F Verstraete

– Nature

(2011)

471,

87

(doi: 10.1038/nature09770)

Applying the variational principle to (1+1)-dimensional quantum field theories

J Haegeman, JI Cirac, TJ Osborne, H Verschelde, F Verstraete

(2011)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.2409)