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

Time-evolving block decimation

The time-evolving block decimation algorithm is a numerical scheme used to simulate one-dimensional quantum many-body systems, characterized by at most nearest-neighbour interactions....

 (TEBD) and multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA). He is currently a faculty member of Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.

External links

• Science Watch interview
• Perimeter announcement