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

Renormalization algorithm for the calculation of spectra of interacting quantum systems

D Porras, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2005)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0504717)

Efficient evaluation of partition functions of inhomogeneous many-body spin systems.

V Murg, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Phys Rev Lett

(2005)

95,

057206

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.057206)

Interpolation of recurrence and hashing entanglement distillation protocols

KGH Vollbrecht, F Verstraete

– Physical Review A

(2005)

71,

062325

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.062325)

Exploiting Quantum Parallelism To Simulate Quantum Random Many-Body Systems

B Paredes, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2005)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0505288)

Entanglement of assistance and multipartite state distillation

JA Smolin, F Verstraete, A Winter

(2005)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0505038)

Entanglement flow in multipartite systems - art. no. 052308

TS Cubitt, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical Review A

(2005)

71,

052308

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.71.052308)

Renormalization-group transformations on quantum states.

F Verstraete, JI Cirac, JI Latorre, E Rico, MM Wolf

– Physical Review Letters

(2005)

94,

140601

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.140601)

Localizable Entanglement

M Popp, F Verstraete, MA Martin-Delgado, JI Cirac

(2005)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0411123)

Localizable entanglement

M Popp, F Verstraete, MA Martín-Delgado, JI Cirac

– Physical Review A

(2005)

71,

042306

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.042306)

Efficient evaluation of partition functions of frustrated and inhomogeneous spin systems

V Murg, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2005)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0501493)