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

Variational optimization of continuous matrix product states

B Tuybens, J De Nardis, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

(2021)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.01801)

Quantum error correction thresholds for the universal Fibonacci Turaev-Viro code

A Schotte, G Zhu, L Burgelman, F Verstraete

(2021)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.04610)

Matrix product operator symmetries and intertwiners in string-nets with domain walls

L Lootens, J Fuchs, J Haegeman, C Schweigert, F Verstraete

– SciPost Physics

(2021)

10,

053

(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.10.3.053)

Symmetric cluster expansions with tensor networks

B Vanhecke, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete

– Physical Review A

(2021)

103,

l020402

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.L020402)

Tangent-space methods for truncating uniform MPS

B Vanhecke, M Van Damme, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete

– SciPost Physics Core

(2021)

4,

004

(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.4.1.004)

Matrix product operator symmetries and intertwiners in string-nets with domain walls

L Lootens, J Fuchs, J Haegeman, C Schweigert, F Verstraete

(2021)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.11187)

Tangent-space methods for truncating uniform MPS

B Vanhecke, M Van Damme, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete

(2021)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2001.11882)

Real-time scattering of interacting quasiparticles in quantum spin chains

M Van Damme, L Vanderstraeten, J De Nardis, J Haegeman, F Verstraete

– Physical Review Research

(2021)

3,

013078

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013078)

Matrix product operator symmetries and intertwiners in string-nets with domain walls

L Lootens, J Fuchs, J Haegeman, C Schweigert, F Verstraete

(2021)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.2460)

Report on 2001.11882v2

B Vanhecke, M Van Damme, J Haegeman, L Vanderstraeten, F Verstraete

(2021)

(doi: 10.21468/scipost.report.2457)