Christopher Monroe

About

Christopher Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Physics at Duke University. He serves as the Principal Investigator of the Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions research group. His work focuses on quantum computing using trapped ions, encompassing quantum circuit applications, quantum simulation of many-body physics, quantum computer system design and fabrication, and ion-photonic quantum networks. Monroe leads a multidisciplinary team including research professors, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers, all contributing to advancing the field of quantum information science. His lab is located in the Chesterfield building at Duke University, where he also maintains an office and oversees multiple research spaces dedicated to experimental quantum computing.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Physics
• Quantum mechanics
• Algorithm
• Statistical physics
• Engineering
• Library science
• Mathematics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Electrical engineering

Selected publications

• Fault-tolerant control of an error-corrected qubit

  Nature · 2021 · 354 citations

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  DOI

• Quantum Simulation for High-Energy Physics

  PRX Quantum · 2023 · 298 citations

  It is for the first time that quantum simulation for high-energy physics (HEP) is studied in the U.S. decadal particle-physics community planning, and in fact until recently, this was not considered a mainstream topic in the community. This fact speaks of a remarkable rate of growth of this subfield over the past few years, stimulated by the impressive advancements in quantum information sciences (QIS) and associated technologies over the past decade, and the significant investment in this area…

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• Measurement-induced quantum phases realized in a trapped-ion quantum computer

  Nature Physics · 2022 · 260 citations

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• Development of Quantum Interconnects (QuICs) for Next-Generation Information Technologies

  PRX Quantum · 2021 · 82 citations

  Just as classical information technology rests on a foundation built of interconnected information-processing systems, quantum information technology (QIT) must do the same. A critical component of such systems is the interconnect, a device or process that allows transfer of information between disparate physical media, for example, semiconductor electronics, individual atoms, light pulses in optical fiber, or microwave fields. While interconnects have been well engineered for decades in the rea…

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• Phase transition in magic with random quantum circuits

  Nature Physics · 2024-09-23 · 57 citations

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Recent grants

• Collaborative: Photonic Quantum Networking of Trapped Ion Qubits

  NSF · $387k · 2007–2009

• Photonic Quantum Networking of Trapped Ion Qubits

  NSF · $480k · 2009–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Norbert Linke

  220 shared

• Daiwei Zhu

  IonQ (United States)

  198 shared

• K. A. Landsman

  University of Maryland, College Park

  172 shared

• Alexey V. Gorshkov

  170 shared

• Guido Pagano

  152 shared

• Marko Cetina

  144 shared

• David Hayes

  140 shared

• Peter Maunz

  IonQ (United States)

  139 shared

Labs

• Duke University Quantum Computing with Trapped IonsPI

Education

• Ph.D., Physics

  University of California, Berkeley

  1994

• B.S., Physics

  University of California, Berkeley

  1989

Awards & honors

• Elected Member. National Academy of Sciences (2016)

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