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

Entanglement frustration for Gaussian states on symmetric graphs

MM Wolf, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2003)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0307060)

Quantum nonlocality in the presence of superselection rules and data hiding protocols

F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical Review Letters

(2003)

91,

010404

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.010404)

Entanglement versus Correlations in Spin Systems

F Verstraete, M Popp, JI Cirac

(2003)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0307009)

Normal forms and entanglement measures for multipartite quantum states

F Verstraete, J Dehaene, B De Moor

(2003)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0105090)

Separable states can be used to distribute entanglement

TS Cubitt, F Verstraete, W Dur, JI Cirac

(2003)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0302168)

Quantum nonlocality in the presence of superselection rules and data hiding protocols

F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2003)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0302039)

Optimal teleportation with a mixed state of two qubits

F Verstraete, H Verschelde

– Physical Review Letters

(2003)

90,

097901/4

Optimal teleportation with a mixed state of two qubits.

F Verstraete, H Verschelde

– Physical review letters

(2003)

90,

097901

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.097901)

Optimal teleportation with a mixed state of two qubits

F Verstraete, H Verschelde

(2003)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0303007)

On the fidelity of mixed states of two qubits

F Verstraete, H Verschelde

(2003)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0203073)