This is me…
I am an ARC postdoctoral research fellow in theoretical physics at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), working in the group of Entanglement, Many-body Systems & Simulations led by Prof. Guifre Vidal. My research interests include quantum information and computation, condensed matter physics and computational physics.
Currently, I am focused on the development of new simulation techniques for quantum many-body systems using tensor networks, and on the investigation of the entanglement properties of extended systems. You can find more information about these topics in the webpage of our group here.
Before moving to Australia, I was a PhD student at the University of Barcelona (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Jose I. Latorre. The research in my PhD covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from quantum algorithms to quantum phase transitions. In case you are interested or just curious you can download my PhD thesis here.
Some Recent Contributions (Links to e-prints)
* Together with T.-Chieh Wei, I have investigated the utility of the geometric entanglement to detect elusive phase transitions in quantum many-body systems: arXiv:0910.2488
* Together with G. Vidal, I have investigated the performance of a directional corner transfer matrix approach to simulate two-dimensional quantum lattice systems on infinite lattices: arXiv:0905.3225
* Together with J. Jordan and G. Vidal, I have investigated the physics of the bosonic Hubbard model in the hard-core limit on an infinite square lattice using the infinite-PEPS algorithm: arXiv:0901.0420
* Together with A. Doherty and G. Vidal, I have established the existence of a first-order phase transition in the two-dimensional anisotropic quantum orbital compass model: arXiv:0809.4068
* Together with G. Vidal I have proposed a generalization of the infinite-TEBD (iTEBD) algorithm to deal with non-unitary evolutions: arXiv:0711.3960
* Together with H.-Qiang Zhou and G. Vidal, I have established the relation between tensor network representations of quantum states and the fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions: arXiv:0709.4596
* I have established universal scaling laws for the geometric entanglement of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems as determined by the underlying conformal field theory at quantum critical points: arXiv:0711.2556
* Together with J. Jordan, G. Vidal, F. Verstraete and I. Cirac, I have proposed an algorithm to compute the ground state properties of two-dimensional quantum lattice systems on infinite-size lattices, the so-called infinite-PEPS (iPEPS) algorithm: arXiv:cond-mat/0703788
