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

Matrix product operators for symmetry-protected topological phases: Gauging and edge theories

DJ Williamson, N Bultinck, M Mariën, MB Sahinoglu, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.5604)

Matrix product operators for symmetry-protected topological phases: Gauging and edge theories

DJ Williamson, N Bultinck, M Mariën, MB Şahinoğlu, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B

(2016)

94,

205150

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.94.205150)

Diagonalizing transfer matrices and matrix product operators: a medley of exact and computational methods

J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.08519)

Confinement and string breaking for QED$_2$ in the Hamiltonian picture

B Buyens, J Haegeman, H Verschelde, F Verstraete, K Van Acoleyen

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.00246)

Confinement and String Breaking for QED2 in the Hamiltonian Picture

B Buyens, J Haegeman, H Verschelde, F Verstraete, K Van Acoleyen

– Physical Review X

(2016)

6,

041040

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041040)

Symmetry breaking and the geometry of reduced density matrices

V Zauner, D Draxler, L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– New Journal of Physics

(2016)

18,

113033

(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/11/113033)

Matrix product state renormalization

M Bal, MM Rams, V Zauner, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.01522)

Matrix product state renormalization

M Bal, MM Rams, V Zauner, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B

(2016)

94,

205122

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.94.205122)

Gradient methods for variational optimization of projected entangled-pair states

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, P Corboz, F Verstraete

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.09170)

Hamiltonian simulation of the Schwinger model at finite temperature

B Buyens, F Verstraete, K Van Acoleyen

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.03385)