Professor Frank Verstraete | Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

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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

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)

Geometry of Matrix Product States: metric, parallel transport and curvature

J Haegeman, M Mariën, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.7710)

The continuum limit of a tensor network: a path integral representation

C Brockt, J Haegeman, D Jennings, TJ Osborne, F Verstraete

(2012)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5401)

Matrix product states for critical spin chains: Finite-size versus finite-entanglement scaling

B Pirvu, G Vidal, F Verstraete, L Tagliacozzo

– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

(2012)

86,

075117

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.86.075117)

Algebraic Bethe ansatz and tensor networks

V Murg, VE Korepin, F Verstraete

– Physical Review B

(2012)

86,

045125

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.86.045125)

Stochastic exclusion processes versus coherent transport

K Temme, MM Wolf, F Verstraete

– New Journal of Physics

(2012)

14,

075004

(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/075004)