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

Symmetry Breaking and Convex Set Phase Diagrams for the q-state Potts Model

V Zauner-Stauber, F Verstraete

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.03492)

Quasi-particle interactions in frustrated Heisenberg chains

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete, D Poilblanc

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.07665)

Quasiparticle interactions in frustrated Heisenberg chains

L Vanderstraeten, J Haegeman, F Verstraete, D Poilblanc

– Physical Review B

(2016)

93,

235108

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.93.235108)

Symmetry Breaking and the Geometry of Reduced Density Matrices

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

(2016)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.7642)

Truncating an exact matrix product state for the XY model: Transfer matrix and its renormalization

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

– Physical Review B

(2015)

92,

235150

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.235150)

Faster identification of optimal contraction sequences for tensor networks

RNC Pfeifer, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.6112)

The entanglement of distillation for gauge theories

K Van Acoleyen, N Bultinck, J Haegeman, M Marien, VB Scholz, F Verstraete

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.04369)

Excitations and the tangent space of projected entangled-pair states

L Vanderstraeten, M Mariën, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.02151)

Truncating an exact Matrix Product State for the XY model: transfer matrix and its renormalisation

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

(2015)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2607)

Excitations and the tangent space of projected entangled-pair states

L Vanderstraeten, M Mariën, F Verstraete, J Haegeman

– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

(2015)

92,

201111

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.201111)