Professor Frank Verstraete | Faculty of Mathematics

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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

Approaching the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition for the classical XY model with tensor networks

L Vanderstraeten, B Vanhecke, AM Laeuchli, F Verstraete

(2019)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.04576)

Cardy states, defect lines and chiral operators of coset CFTs on the lattice

L Lootens, R Vanhove, F Verstraete

(2019)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.02520)

The Three-Legged Tree Tensor Networks with SU(2)- and molecular point group symmetry

K Gunst, F Verstraete, D Van Neck

(2019)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.08926)

Variational optimization algorithms for uniform matrix product states

V Zauner-Stauber, L Vanderstraeten, MT Fishman, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

(2019)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.07035)

Topological nature of spinons and holons: Elementary excitations from matrix product states with conserved symmetries

V Zauner-Stauber, L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, IP McCulloch, F Verstraete

(2019)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.07197)

Three-Legged Tree Tensor Networks with SU(2) and Molecular Point Group Symmetry

K Gunst, F Verstraete, D Van Neck

– Journal of chemical theory and computation

(2019)

15,

2996

(doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00071)

Simulating excitation spectra with projected entangled-pair states

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B

(2019)

99,

165121

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.165121)

Galois conjugated tensor fusion categories and non-unitary CFT

L Lootens, R Vanhove, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2019)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.11241)

Tangent-space methods for uniform matrix product states

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– SciPost Physics Lecture Notes

(2019)

007

(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.7)

Tangent-space methods for uniform matrix product states

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2019)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.07006)