Professor Frank Verstraete

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

Localizable entanglement - art. no. 042306

M Popp, F Verstraete, MA Martín-Delgado, JI Cirac

– Physical Review A

(2005)

71,

042306

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.71.042306)

Efficient evaluation of partition functions of frustrated and inhomogeneous spin systems

V Murg, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2005)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0501493)

Sequential generation of entangled multi-qubit states

C Schoen, E Solano, F Verstraete, JI Cirac, MM Wolf

(2005)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0501096)

Valence-bond states for quantum computation

F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical Review A

(2004)

70,

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.060302)

The moduli space of three-qutrit states

E Briand, J-G Luque, J-Y Thibon, F Verstraete

– Journal of Mathematical Physics

(2004)

45,

4855

(doi: 10.1063/1.1809255)

Density Matrix Renormalization Group and Periodic Boundary Conditions: A Quantum Information Perspective

F Verstraete, D Porras, JI Cirac

– Physical review letters

(2004)

93,

227205

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.227205)

Matrix product density operators: simulation of finite-temperature and dissipative systems.

F Verstraete, JJ García-Ripoll, JI Cirac

– Physical review letters

(2004)

93,

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.207204)

Renormalization group transformations on quantum states

F Verstraete, JI Cirac, JI Latorre, E Rico, MM Wolf

(2004)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0410227)

Quantum entanglement theory in the presence of superselection rules - art. no. 042310

N Schuch, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

– Physical Review A

(2004)

70,

042310

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.042310)

Entanglement flow in multipartite systems

TS Cubitt, F Verstraete, JI Cirac

(2004)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0404179)

Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations

Career

Research

Selected Publications

Publications

Research Group

Room

Personal homepage

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge