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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

Matrix product states represent ground states faithfully
F Verstraete, JI Cirac
(2006)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0505140)
Criticality, the area law, and the computational power of PEPS
F Verstraete, MM Wolf, D Perez-Garcia, JI Cirac
(2006)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0601075)
Renormalization algorithm for the calculation of spectra of interacting quantum systems - art. no. 014410
D Porras, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
– Physical Review B
(2006)
73,
014410
(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.73.014410)
Numerical computation of localizable entanglement in spin chains
M Popp, F Verstraete, MA Martin-Delgado, I Cirac
– Applied Physics B
(2005)
82,
225
(doi: 10.1007/s00340-005-2069-x)
Quantum phase transitions in matrix product systems
MM Wolf, G Ortiz, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
(2005)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0512180)
Entanglement of assistance and multipartite state distillation
JA Smolin, F Verstraete, A Winter
– Physical Review A Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
(2005)
72,
052317
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.052317)
Exploiting Quantum Parallelism to Simulate Quantum Random Many-Body Systems
B Paredes, F Verstraete, JI Cirac
– Physical Review Letters
(2005)
95,
140501
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.140501)
Mapping local Hamiltonians of fermions to local Hamiltonians of spins
F Verstraete, JI Cirac
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2005)
2005,
305
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2005/09/P09012)
Mapping local Hamiltonians of fermions to local Hamiltonians of spins
F Verstraete, JI Cirac
(2005)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0508353)
Sequential Generation of Entangled Multiqubit States
C Schön, E Solano, F Verstraete, JI Cirac, MM Wolf
– Phys Rev Lett
(2005)
95,
110503
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.110503)
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Research Group

Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

Room

B0.15

Personal homepage

http://www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk/person/fv285

Study at Cambridge

About the University

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