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 Density Operators: Renormalization Fixed Points and Boundary Theories

JI Cirac, D Perez-Garcia, N Schuch, F Verstraete

(2025)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.00608)

Fermionic tensor network methods

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

– Scipost Physics

(2025)

18,

012

(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.18.1.012)

Matrix product state fixed points of non-Hermitian transfer matrices

W Tang, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

– Physical Review B

(2025)

111,

035107

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.111.035107)

Fermionic tensor network methods

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

(2024)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.14611)

Report on 2404.14611v1

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

(2024)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.9583)

Fermionic tensor network methods

Q Mortier, L Devos, L Burgelman, B Vanhecke, N Bultinck, F Verstraete, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten

(2024)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.9426)

Interacting chiral fermions on the lattice with matrix product operator norms

J Haegeman, L Lootens, Q Mortier, A Stottmeister, A Ueda, F Verstraete

(2024)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.10285)

Local Jordan-Wigner transformations on the torus

O O'Brien, L Lootens, F Verstraete

(2024)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.07727)

The $χ^2$-divergence and Mixing times of quantum Markov processes

K Temme, MJ Kastoryano, MB Ruskai, MM Wolf, F Verstraete

(2024)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.2358)

Dualities in One-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models: Topological Sectors

L Lootens, C Delcamp, F Verstraete

– PRX Quantum

(2024)

5,

010338

(doi: 10.1103/prxquantum.5.010338)