Barthel

Thomas Barthel

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics

Education

  • Ph.D. Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochshule Aachen (Germany), 2009

Positions

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics
  • Member of the Duke Quantum Center

Representative Publications

  • Barthel, T., and Q. Miao. “Absence of Barren Plateaus and Scaling of Gradients in the Energy Optimization of Isometric Tensor Network States.” Communications in Mathematical Physics 406, no. 4 (April 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-024-05217-x.
  • Barthel, T., and Q. Miao. “Scaling of contraction costs for entanglement renormalization algorithms including tensor Trotterization and variational Monte Carlo.” Physical Review B 111, no. 4 (January 15, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.045104.
  • Miao, Q., and T. Barthel. “Convergence and quantum advantage of Trotterized MERA for strongly-correlated systems.” Quantum 9 (January 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-02-11-1631.
  • Miao, Qiang, Tianyi Wang, Kenneth Brown, Thomas Barthel, and Marko Cetina. “Probing entanglement scaling across a quantum phase transition on a quantum computer.” ArXiv:2412.18602, December 24, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.18602.
  • Barthel, Thomas, and Qiang Miao. “Absence of barren plateaus and scaling of gradients in the energy optimization of isometric tensor network states.” Communications in Mathematical Physics, December 10, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.00161.