Christopher R Monroe

Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor
  • Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Director of the Duke Quantum Center
  • Professor of Physics

Contact Information

  • Office Location: the Chesterfield Building, 701 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27701
  • Email Address: c.monroe@duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • B.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
  • Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992

Research Interests

quantum physics, applications in quantum information science

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Elected Member. National Academy of Sciences. 2016

Courses Taught

  • PHYSICS 89S: First-Year Seminar
  • PHYSICS 791: Special Readings
  • PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study
  • ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • ECE 270L9: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation (Lab)
  • ECE 270DL: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Schuckert, A., O. Katz, L. Feng, E. Crane, A. De, M. Hafezi, A. V. Gorshkov, and C. Monroe. “Observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum simulator.” Nature Physics 21, no. 3 (March 1, 2025): 374–79. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02751-2.
  • Saha, Sagnik, Mikhail Shalaev, Jameson O’Reilly, Isabella Goetting, George Toh, Ashish Kalakuntla, Yichao Yu, and Christopher Monroe. “High-fidelity remote entanglement of trapped atoms mediated by time-bin photons.” Nature Communications 16, no. 1 (March 2025): 2533. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57557-4.
  • O’Reilly, Jameson, George Toh, Isabella Goetting, Sagnik Saha, Mikhail Shalaev, Allison L. Carter, Andrew Risinger, et al. “Fast Photon-Mediated Entanglement of Continuously Cooled Trapped Ions for Quantum Networking.” Physical Review Letters 133, no. 9 (August 2024): 090802. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.090802.
  • Carter, Allison L., Jameson O’Reilly, George Toh, Sagnik Saha, Mikhail Shalaev, Isabella Goetting, and Christopher Monroe. “Ion trap with in-vacuum high numerical aperture imaging for a dual-species modular quantum computer.” The Review of Scientific Instruments 95, no. 3 (March 2024): 033201. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0180732.
  • Niroula, Pradeep, Christopher David White, Qingfeng Wang, Sonika Johri, Daiwei Zhu, Christopher Monroe, Crystal Noel, and Michael J. Gullans. “Phase transition in magic with random quantum circuits.” Nature Physics 20, no. 11 (January 2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02637-3.