Guifré Vidal is a Spanish physicist who is working on quantum
many-body physics
The many-body problem is a general name for a vast category of physical problems pertaining to the properties of microscopic systems made of many interacting particles. ''Microscopic'' here implies that quantum mechanics has to be used to provid ...
using analytical and numerical techniques. In particular, he is one of the leading experts of
tensor network state implementations such as
time-evolving block decimation
The time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) algorithm is a numerical scheme used to simulate one-dimensional quantum many-body systems, characterized by at most nearest-neighbour interactions. It is dubbed Time-evolving Block Decimation because it ...
(TEBD) and multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA). He was previously a faculty member of
Perimeter Institute
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI, Perimeter, PITP) is an independent research centre in foundational theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1999. The institute's founding and major benefactor i ...
in Waterloo, Canada. However as of September 2019, he is now a research scientist at
Sandbox @ Alphabet.
External links
Science Watch interviewPerimeter announcement
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Spanish physicists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)