Former Group Members and Theses

Postdocs

• Mingru Yang; now postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
• Wen-Tao Xu; now postdoc at Technical University Munich
• Clement Delcamp (at MPQ); now professor at Institut des Hautes
  Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)
• Ji-Yao Chen (at MPQ); now professor at Sun-Yat Sen University
• Mohsin Iqbal (at MPQ); now research scientist at Quantinuum
• Antoine Sterdyniak (at MPQ)
• Katharina Schwaiger (at MPQ)
• Andrew Goldsborough (at RWTH Aachen and MPQ)
• Kasper Duivenvoorden (at RWTH Aachen)
• Lauri Lehman (at RWTH Aachen)

PhD students

• Ivana Kurecic (at MPQ and TU Munich); PhD Thesis: Symmetries and Unconventional Order in Quantum Many-Body
  Systems; now Quantum Computing Educator at Xanadu
• Ilya Kull (jointly with C. Brukner); PhD Thesis: Quantum information in many-body systems; now postdoc at Univeristy of Vienna
• Caroline de Groot (at MPQ and TU Munich); PhD Thesis: Topological Phases, Symmetries and Open Systems; now community manager at Pasqal
• David Stephen (at MPQ and TU Munich); PhD Thesis: Topological Phases of Matter with Subsystem Symmetries; now postdoc at UC Boulder
• Anna Hackenbroich (at MPQ and LMU Munich); PhD Thesis: Entanglement in chiral topological systems
• Henrik Dreyer (at MPQ and LMU Munich, jointly with I. Cirac); PhD Thesis: Symmetries & Tensor Networks in Two-Dimensional Quantum Physics; now Managing Director and Scientific Lead at Quantinuum
• Mohsin Iqbal (at RWTH Aachen and MPQ); PhD Thesis: Topological Phenomena in Tensor Network States of Quantum Spin Systems, now research scientist at Quantinuum
• Manuel Rispler (at RWTH Aachen and MPQ); PhD Thesis: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Projected Entangled Pair State models, now researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich

Master and Diploma students

• Manuel Mekonnen (at University of Vienna); Master Thesis: Exact and Finitely Generated Preparation of Quantum States in Translation-Invariant Systems; now PhD student at IQOQI Vienna
• Andreas Bauer (at MPQ); Master Thesis: Symmetries and excitations in the quantum double models - a tensor network approach; now postdoc at MIT
• Gregor Bransky (at RWTH Aachen); Diploma Thesis: The extended Fermi-Hubbard Model in the light of computational complexity
• Mohsin Iqbal (at RWTH Aachen); Master Thesis: Semionic Resonating Valence Bond states on the kagome lattice; now research scientist at Quantinuum
• Stefan Haßler (at RWTH Aachen); Master Thesis: Entanglement Spectra and Boundary Theories for Gaussian Fermionic PEPS

BSc students

• Sven Jandura (at MPQ); Bachelor Thesis: Topological Order in Quantum N-mer Models, now PhD student at University of Strasbourg
• Julian Sieber (at MPQ); Bachelor Thesis: Recovery Maps for Approximate Markov Chains - a Matrix Product State Perspective, now PhD student at Imperial College London
• Vu Phan Thanh (at MPQ); Bachelor Thesis: Matrix Product States and Phases of One-Dimensional Quantum Systems
• Madita Nocon (at RWTH Aachen); Bachelor Thesis: The role of boundaries in one-dimensional gapped phases, now researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Peter Schmitz (at RWTH Aachen); Bachelor Thesis: The AKLT model and its excitations