marco.deweirdt@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

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daan.maertens@ugent.be

office: 120 032

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

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My research focuses on the study of interacting quantum fields on curved spacetime backgrounds beyond the perturbative level, using variational numerical methods based on tensor network states. In the tensor network formalism the many-body wavefunction is encoded in terms of entanglement across virtual bonds, allowing us to directly study the entanglement spectrum. For one dimensional systems, the matrix product states (MPS) ansatz provides an efficient parametrization for the low energy states in the many-body Hilbert space.

lander.burgelman@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

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lukas.devos@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

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bastiaan.aelbrecht@ugent.be

office: 120 032

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

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quinten.mortier@ugent.be

office: 120 032

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

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markus.hauru@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 49 76

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I work on tensor network methods for many-body physics, especially in relation to real-space renormalization group transformations and decoherence.

tom.vieijra@ugent.be

office: 120 032

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

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laurens.lootens@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 49 76

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laurens.vanderstraeten@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 48 38

Research interests:

Matrix product states and tangent-space methods
Low-energy dynamics of quantum spin chains
Projected entangled-pair states: ground states and excitations

karel.vanacoleyen@ugent.be

office:  120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 47 62

Teaching:

Theory of relativity
Theory of relativity and classical fields

jutho.haegeman@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 49 71

Research:

I am interested in strongly correlated quantum many body systems and exotic phenomena in quantum condensed matter physics. My research focusses on studying these systems using the formalism of tensor networks, which offer a faithful description of low-energy quantum many body states, as motivated by the area law scaling of entanglement entropy. On the one hand, tensor network states enable accurate ab-initio simulations of the low-energy properties of strongly interacting Hamiltonians, while on the other they allow us to tackle general questions from the wave function point of view, irrespective of the details of any Hamiltonian or Lagrangian. Tensor network states also provide an interesting new perspective to holography and quantum gravity.

Google Scholar — arXiv — PhD thesis — Github

Teaching:

I am currently teaching a course in Electromagnetism (2nd Bachelor Physics and Astronomy, UGent)

Personal:

Hiking and photography

robijn.vanhove@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 49 76

Research interests:

Tensor network theory for topological order
Symmetry protected topological order phase detection with tensor networks
Anomalies in condensed matter systems
Numerical simulation with projected entangled pair states

benoit.tuybens@ugent.be

office:  120.032

Tel:  +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

Research interests:

Entanglement for gauge theories (and QFTs)
Continous tensor network states (cMPS and cMERA) for QFTs
Quenches (real time evolution) in QFTs (for example Schwinger model) using time-dependent cMPS ansatz

bavhecke.vanhecke@ugent.be

office:  120 005

Tel:  +32 – (0)9 – 264 49 76

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I study classical lattice and quantum gauge theory, making use of various tensor network techniques.

alexis.schotte@ugent.be

bureau:  120 005

Tel:  +32  – (0)9 – 264 49 76

Research interests:

Anyons and topological order

Topological quantum computing and error correcting codes

frank.verstraete@ugent.be

office: 120 006

Tel:  +32 – (0)9 – 264 48 02

research interests:

Quantum Information Theory and the Theory of Entanglement
Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems and their Numerical Simulation
Linear and Multilinear Algebra

klaas.gunst@ugent.be

office:  120 005

Tel:  +32  – (0)9 – 264 49 76

Research interests:

The application of tensor networks on quantum chemical systems

gertian.roose@ugent.be

office: 120 032

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 45 19

Research interests:

Dynamical mass generation in the Gross-Neveu model using tensor network methods

maarten.vandamme@ugent.be

office: 120 005

Tel: +32 – (0)9 – 264 49 76

Research interests:

Investigating spin chain excitations using matrix product states

Simulation of thermalisation