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

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

  • 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.
  • Lewis, L., D. Zhu, A. Gheorghiu, C. Noel, O. Katz, B. Harraz, Q. Wang, et al. “Experimental implementation of an efficient test of quantumness.” Physical Review A 109, no. 1 (January 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.012610.
  • Seetharam, Kushal, Debopriyo Biswas, Crystal Noel, Andrew Risinger, Daiwei Zhu, Or Katz, Sambuddha Chattopadhyay, et al. “Digital quantum simulation of NMR experiments.” Science Advances 9, no. 46 (November 2023): eadh2594. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh2594.
  • Feng, Lei, Or Katz, Casey Haack, Mohammad Maghrebi, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Zhexuan Gong, Marko Cetina, and Christopher Monroe. “Continuous symmetry breaking in a trapped-ion spin chain.” Nature 623, no. 7988 (November 2023): 713–17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06656-7.
  • Zhu, D., G. D. Kahanamoku-Meyer, L. Lewis, C. Noel, O. Katz, B. Harraz, Q. Wang, et al. “Interactive cryptographic proofs of quantumness using mid-circuit measurements.” Nature Physics 19, no. 11 (November 1, 2023): 1725–31. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02162-9.