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

Particles, Holes, and Solitons: A Matrix Product State Approach

D Draxler, J Haegeman, TJ Osborne, V Stojevic, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete

– Physical Review Letters

(2013)

111,

020402

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.020402)

Elementary excitations in gapped quantum spin systems

J Haegeman, S Michalakis, B Nachtergaele, TJ Osborne, N Schuch, F Verstraete

(2013)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.2176)

The computational complexity of density functional theory

JD Whitfield, N Schuch, F Verstraete

(2013)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.1259)

Post-Matrix Product State Methods: To tangent space and beyond

J Haegeman, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2013)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.1894)

Entanglement renormalization for quantum fields in real space

J Haegeman, TJ Osborne, H Verschelde, F Verstraete

– Physical Review Letters

(2013)

110,

100402

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.100402)

Constructing gapless spin liquid state for the spin-1/2 J1-J2 Heisenberg model on a square lattice

L Wang, D Poilblanc, Z-C Gu, X-G Wen, F Verstraete

(2013)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.4492)

Quantum state discrimination bounds for finite sample size

KMR Audenaert, M Mosonyi, F Verstraete

– Journal of Mathematical Physics

(2012)

53,

122205

(doi: 10.1063/1.4768252)

Quantum state discrimination bounds for finite sample size

KMR Audenaert, M Mosonyi, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.0711)

Calculus of continuous matrix product states

J Haegeman, JI Cirac, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3935)

Preparing topological PEPS on a quantum computer

M Schwarz, TS Cubitt, K Temme, F Verstraete, D Perez-Garcia

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.4050)