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

A scaling hypothesis for projected entangled-pair states

B Vanhecke, J Hasik, F Verstraete, L Vanderstraeten

(2022)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.03143)

Scaling Hypothesis for Projected Entangled-Pair States

B Vanhecke, J Hasik, F Verstraete, L Vanderstraeten

– Phys Rev Lett

(2022)

129,

200601

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.200601)

Tensor Networks Can Resolve Fermi Surfaces.

Q Mortier, N Schuch, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

– Phys Rev Lett

(2022)

129,

206401

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.206401)

Invertible bimodule categories and generalized Schur orthogonality

JC Bridgeman, L Lootens, F Verstraete

(2022)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.01947)

Partial lifting of degeneracy in the J1-J2-J3 Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice

J Colbois, B Vanhecke, L Vanderstraeten, A Smerald, F Verstraete, F Mila

– Physical Review B

(2022)

106,

174403

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.106.174403)

Partial lifting of degeneracy in the $J_1-J_2-J_3$ Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice

J Colbois, B Vanhecke, L Vanderstraeten, A Smerald, F Verstraete, F Mila

(2022)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.11788)

Entanglement scaling for λ φ24

B Vanhecke, F Verstraete, K Van Acoleyen

– Physical Review D

(2022)

106,

l071501

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.L071501)

Simulating thermal density operators with cluster expansions and tensor networks

B Vanhecke, D Devoogdt, F Verstraete, L Vanderstraeten

(2022)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.5868)

Haldane gap in the SU(3) [3 0 0] Heisenberg chain

L Devos, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B

(2022)

106,

155103

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.106.155103)

Efficient variational contraction of two-dimensional tensor networks with a non-trivial unit cell

A Nietner, B Vanhecke, F Verstraete, J Eisert, L Vanderstraeten

(2022)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.01142)