Guifré Vidal

Guifré Vidal
Born Barcelona
Residence Canada
Nationality Spain
Fields Physicist
Institutions Perimeter Institute,
University of Queensland
Alma mater Universitat de Barcelona
Doctoral advisor Rolf Tarrach
Other academic advisors Ignacio Cirac,
John Preskill
Known for Time-evolving block decimation,
Tensor network states, Entanglement renormalization

Guifré Vidal is a Spanish physicist who is working on quantum many-body physics 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 (TEBD) and multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA). He is currently a faculty member of Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.

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