This is me…
I am a theoretical physicist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany), working in the Theory Division led by Prof. Ignacio Cirac. Since December 2010 I am a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow in this group. My research interests include, but are not limited to, quantum information science (entanglement theory, adiabatic quantum algorithms, etc), condensed matter physics (quantum phase transitions, emergent phenomena, topological order, renormalization group, etc) and computational physics (tensor network algorithms, DMRG, PEPS, etc).
Currently, I am focused on the development of new numerical simulation techniques for quantum many-body systems using tensor networks, and on the investigation of the entanglement properties and the physics of strongly correlated systems. You can find more information about these topics in the webpage of our group here. And if you wish to learn some more details about numerical algorithms using tensor networks and infinite-PEPS, you can also have a look at Jacob Jordan’s PhD thesis here.
Before moving to Germany, I was a an ARC postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) working in the group of Entanglement, Many-body Systems & Simulations led by Prof. Guifre Vidal. I worked in this group between September 2006 and November 2010. Even before that, I was a PhD student at the University of Barcelona (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Jose I. Latorre, getting my PhD in July 2006. 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.
And I like playing my guitars, diving, hiking, traveling, cooking and thinking.
Some Recent Contributions (Links to e-prints)
* I have explored the applicability of corner transfer matrices and corner tensors for the classical simulation of quantum lattice systems: arXiv:1112.4101
* Together with M. D. Schulz, S. Dusuel, J. Vidal and K. P. Schmidt, I have studied the breakdown of a perturbed Z_N topological phase: arXiv:1110.3632
* Together with T.-Chieh Wei, I have proposed the topological geometric entanglement as an indicator of topological order, and computed it for spins and blocks in the Toric Code model: arXiv:1108.1537
* Together with H.-Hao Tu, I have provided evidence for the existence of an intermediate Haldane phase in quantum spin chains with uniaxial anisotropy: arXiv:1107.2911
* Together with H.-Hao Tu, I have proposed an effective field theory for the SO(n) bilinear-biquadratic spin chain: arXiv:1104.0494
* Together with H.-Hao Tu, I have investigated the entanglement in SU(n) valence bond solid states in one dimension: arXiv:1103.3994
Other Stuff
* Link to Networking tensor networks: many-body systems and simulations (Benasque, May 7-19 2012)
* Link to an interview about the above workshop for Radio Huesca, Cadena Ser (in Spanish)
