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

Peps as unique ground states of local hamiltonians

D Perez-Garcia, F Verstraete, JI Cirac, MM Wolf

– Quantum Information and Computation

(2008)

8,

650

(doi: 10.26421/qic8.6-7-6)

Computational difficulty of finding matrix product ground states.

N Schuch, I Cirac, F Verstraete

– Physical Review Letters

(2008)

100,

250501

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.250501)

Variational matrix product state approach to quantum impurity models

A Weichselbaum, F Verstraete, U Schollwöck, JI Cirac, J von Delft

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0504305)

Sequentially generated states for the study of two-dimensional systems

MC Bañuls, D Pérez-García, MM Wolf, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

(2008)

77,

052306

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.77.052306)

Matrix product operator representations

V Murg, JI Cirac, B Pirvu, F Verstraete

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0804.3976)

String order and symmetries in quantum spin lattices

D Pérez-García, MM Wolf, M Sanz, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical review letters

(2008)

100,

167202

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.167202)

Quantum circuits for strongly correlated quantum systems

F Verstraete, JI Cirac, JI Latorre

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0804.1888)

Strings, Projected Entangled Pair States, and variational Monte Carlo methods

N Schuch, MM Wolf, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.1567)

Quantum computation, quantum state engineering, and quantum phase transitions driven by dissipation

F Verstraete, MM Wolf, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0803.1447)

Area laws in quantum systems: mutual information and correlations

MM Wolf, F Verstraete, MB Hastings, JI Cirac

(2008)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0704.3906)