Frank Verstraete

Frank Verstraete is a Belgian theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanical many-body theory , quantum optics , quantum nano-optics and quantum information theory.

Verstraete received her doctorate from the University of Leuven in 2002 . He then worked as a post-doctoral student with Ignacio Cirac at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics until 2004 and then with John Preskill at Caltech until 2006 . Since 2006 he has been a full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Vienna and also a professor at the University of Ghent .

He is one of the pioneers in research on quantum entanglement in many-body theory. He worked a lot with Cirac and uses Tensor Network States (TNS) (a generalization of the Matrix Product States (MPS) in a space dimension, basis of the successful density matrix renormalization group , DMRG). He developed the quantum information theory perspective of the DMRG with Cirac and others around 2004.

In 2007 Verstraete received the Hermann Kümmel Award in many-body theory, in 2009 the Lieben Prize , and in 2018 the Francqui Prize .

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with J. Dehaene, B. De Moor, H. Verschelde: Four qubits can be entangled in nine different ways, Physical Review A 65, 2002, p. 052112, Arxiv
with MM Wolf, JI Cirac: Quantum computation and quantum-state engineering driven by dissipation, Nature Physics, Volume 5, 2009, pp. 633–636, Arxiv
with V. Murg, JI Cirac: Matrix product states, projected entangled pair states, and variational renormalization group methods for quantum spin systems, Advances in Physics 57, 2008, pp. 143-224
with D. Perez-Garcia, MM Wolf, JI Cirac: Matrix product state representations, Quantum Information & Computation 7, 2007, pp. 401-430
with D. Porras, JI Cirac: Density matrix renormalization group and periodic boundary conditions: a quantum information perspective, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 93, 2004, p. 227205 Arxiv
with M. Popp, JI Cirac: Entanglement versus correlations in spin systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 92, 2004, p. 27901, Arxiv
with MA Martin-Delgado, JI Cirac: Diverging entanglement length in gapped quantum spin systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 92, 2004, p. 87201, Arxiv
with JJ Garcia-Ripoll, JI Cirac: Matrix product density operators: simulation of finite-temperature and dissipative systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 93, 2004, p. 207204
with MM Wolf, D. Perez-Garcia, JI Cirac: Criticality, the area law, and the computational power of projected entangled pair states, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 96, 2006, p. 220601, Arxiv
with MM Wolf, G. Ortiz, JI Cirac: Quantum phase transitions in matrix product states, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 97, 2006, p. 110403, Arxiv
with Tobias Osborne: General Monogamy Inequality for Bipartite Qubit Entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 96, 2006, p. 220503, Arxiv
with KMR Audenaert, J. Calsamiglia, Ll. Masanes, R. Munoz-Tapia, A. Acin, E. Bagan: The Quantum Chernoff Bound, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 98, 2007, p. 160501, Arxiv
with Norbert Schuch, Michael M. Wolf, J. Ignacio Cirac: Strings, Projected Entangled Pair States, and variational Monte Carlo methods, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 100, 2008, p. 040501, Arxiv
with MM Wolf, MB Hastings, JI Cirac: Area laws in quantum systems: mutual information and correlations, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 100, 2008, p. 70502
with J. Jordan, R. Orús, G. Vidal, JI Cirac: Classical simulation of infinite-size quantum lattice systems in two spatial dimensions, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 101, 2008, p. 250602
with Haegeman, Cirac, Osborne, I. Pizorn, Verschelde: Time dependent variational principles for quantum lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 107, 2011, p. 070601, Arxiv
with J. Haegeman, TJ Osborne, H. Verschelde: Entanglement renormalization for quantum fields, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 110, 2013, p. 100402, Arxiv
with Boye Buyens, Jutho Haegeman, Karel Van Acoleyen, Henri Verschelde: Matrix product states for gauge field theories, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 113, 2014

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SURNAME	Verstraete, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century