Headlines fade, but the wavefunction flows on! Happy that the book "Why Nobody Understands Quantum" is available in the US as of today.
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...
Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics by Frank Verstraete
Find out more about Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics by Frank Verstraete
www.panmacmillan.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Headlines fade, but the wavefunction flows on! Happy that the book "Why Nobody Understands Quantum" is available in the US as of today.
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...
Although 2025 was absolutely shocking in terms of the cruelty of powerful people, science can still be a refuge from it. A highlight for me was retreating to the mountains to teach at the Les Houches Summer School. Here are my lecture notes: arxiv.org/abs/2512.24390
Les Houches Lectures Notes on Tensor Networks
Tensor networks provide a powerful new framework for classifying and simulating correlated and topological phases of quantum matter. Their central premise is that strongly correlated matter can only b...
arxiv.org
January 1, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Although 2025 was absolutely shocking in terms of the cruelty of powerful people, science can still be a refuge from it. A highlight for me was retreating to the mountains to teach at the Les Houches Summer School. Here are my lecture notes: arxiv.org/abs/2512.24390
One of my favourite tensor-network diagrams keeps on giving (from arxiv.org/abs/2511.04674 ):
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
One of my favourite tensor-network diagrams keeps on giving (from arxiv.org/abs/2511.04674 ):
Perfect Particle Transmission through Duality Defects arxiv.org/abs/2510.26780 : manifestations on the lattice of one of the most intriguing results in conformal field theory.
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Perfect Particle Transmission through Duality Defects arxiv.org/abs/2510.26780 : manifestations on the lattice of one of the most intriguing results in conformal field theory.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling, is a perfect example of emergent phenomena in action. It’s also one of the key reasons we wrote our book www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...
— because no other popular science book talks about this.
— because no other popular science book talks about this.
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling, is a perfect example of emergent phenomena in action. It’s also one of the key reasons we wrote our book www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...
— because no other popular science book talks about this.
— because no other popular science book talks about this.
Gauging versus dualities: equivalent up to constant depth quantum circuits. arxiv.org/abs/2509.22051
September 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Gauging versus dualities: equivalent up to constant depth quantum circuits. arxiv.org/abs/2509.22051
The simpler the physics, the more non-simple the math: new insights into the structure of MPO symmetries arxiv.org/abs/2509.03600
Trading Mathematical for Physical Simplicity: Bialgebraic Structures in Matrix Product Operator Symmetries
Despite recent advances in the lattice representation theory of (generalized) symmetries, many simple quantum spin chains of physical interest are not included in the rigid framework of fusion categor...
arxiv.org
September 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The simpler the physics, the more non-simple the math: new insights into the structure of MPO symmetries arxiv.org/abs/2509.03600
Ground states in (topological) phases of quantum spin chains have unique dual descriptions in terms of much less entangled completely symmetry broken ones: a synergy of fusion category and physics. rdcu.be/eAVWm
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalization group in the generalized Landau paradigm
Nature Physics - Quantum spin chains can be represented in several ways, and eigenstates in these dual models have different entanglement structures. By characterizing the dual theories, the...
rdcu.be
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ground states in (topological) phases of quantum spin chains have unique dual descriptions in terms of much less entangled completely symmetry broken ones: a synergy of fusion category and physics. rdcu.be/eAVWm
Was fun to record a podcast for @intelligence2.bsky.social with the wonderful host Shini Somara on our book "Why nobody understands quantum physics": scientists and writers, unite! open.spotify.com/episode/6sBG...
Why does nobody understand quantum physics? With Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert
open.spotify.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Was fun to record a podcast for @intelligence2.bsky.social with the wonderful host Shini Somara on our book "Why nobody understands quantum physics": scientists and writers, unite! open.spotify.com/episode/6sBG...
Reposted by Frank Verstraete
Finally, a book that does justice to the hidden heroes of #quantum physics: Landau, Anderson, Wilson i.e., cond. mat. physics community. Symmetry breaking & renormalization, concepts which unite #physics. It includes key papers from many-body physics (see timeline). Looking forward to reading it!!
June 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Happy to see our book "Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics" published in English www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran.... Unlike other popular science books, we explain quantum and its applications in the way working physicists use and understand them, without shying away from the many-body problem.
June 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Happy to see our book "Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics" published in English www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran.... Unlike other popular science books, we explain quantum and its applications in the way working physicists use and understand them, without shying away from the many-body problem.