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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

XYZ integrability the easy way
P Fendley, S Gehrmann, E Vernier, F Verstraete
(2025)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.04674)
Pourquoi personne ne comprend rien à la physique quantique
C Broeckaert, F Verstraete
(2025)
(doi: 10.55430/18145pppqbv)
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalisation group in the generalised Landau paradigm
L Lootens, C Delcamp, F Verstraete
(2025)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.06334)
Trading Mathematical for Physical Simplicity: Bialgebraic Structures in Matrix Product Operator Symmetries
Y Liu, A Molnar, X-Q Sun, F Verstraete, K Kato, L Lootens
(2025)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.03600)
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalization group in the generalized Landau paradigm
L Lootens, C Delcamp, F Verstraete
– Nat Phys
(2025)
21,
1657
(doi: 10.1038/s41567-025-02961-2)
Finite-size scaling on the torus with periodic projected entangled-pair states
G Fedorovich, L Devos, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete, A Ueda
(2025)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.12731)
Finite-size scaling on the torus with periodic projected entangled-pair states
G Fedorovich, L Devos, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete, A Ueda
– Physical Review B
(2025)
111,
165124
(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.111.165124)
Low-Depth Unitary Quantum Circuits for Dualities in One-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models.
L Lootens, C Delcamp, D Williamson, F Verstraete
– Phys Rev Lett
(2025)
134,
130403
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.130403)
Matrix product state fixed points of non-Hermitian transfer matrices
W Tang, F Verstraete, J Haegeman
(2025)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.18733)
Local Jordan-Wigner transformations and topological sectors on the torus
O O'Brien, L Lootens, F Verstraete
– Physical Review B
(2025)
111,
115126
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.115126)
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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

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