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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Niroula, P., C. D. White, Q. Wang, S. Johri, D. Zhu, C. Monroe, C. Noel, and M. J. Gullans. “Phase transition in magic with random quantum circuits.” Nature Physics, January 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02637-3.
  • 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.