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Christopher R Monroe

Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
130 Hudson Hall, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708
the Chesterfield Building, 701 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27701

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor · 2021 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2021 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Director of the Duke Quantum Center · 2024 - Present Duke Quantum Center, Pratt School of Engineering
Professor of Physics · 2021 - Present Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published January 23, 2024
Duke 100 Trailblazer: Chris Monroe
Published July 10, 2023
Three Things to Know About Federal Investment in Quantum Computing
Published March 9, 2023
Duke Leads Regional Effort to Reinvigorate America’s Semiconductor Infrastructure

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Recent Publications


Observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum simulator

Journal Article Nature Physics · March 1, 2025 Equilibrium phase transitions in many-body systems have been predicted and observed in two and three spatial dimensions but have long been thought not to exist in one-dimensional systems. It was suggested that a phase transition in one dimension can occur ... Full text Cite

High-fidelity remote entanglement of trapped atoms mediated by time-bin photons.

Journal Article Nature communications · March 2025 Photonic interconnects between quantum processing nodes are likely the only way to achieve large-scale quantum computers and networks. The bottleneck in such an architecture is the interface between well-isolated quantum memories and flying photons. We est ... Full text Cite

Fast Photon-Mediated Entanglement of Continuously Cooled Trapped Ions for Quantum Networking.

Journal Article Physical review letters · August 2024 We entangle two cotrapped atomic barium ion qubits by collecting single visible photons from each ion through in vacuo 0.8 NA objectives, interfering them through an integrated fiber beam splitter and detecting them in coincidence. This projects the qubits ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Heterogeneous Quantum Networking

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Rochester Institute of Technology · 2024 - 2029

PIF: Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum Co-Design (STAQ II)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028

International Collaborative Research Developing Multi-qubit and Individually Controllable Trapped-ion based Quantum Computer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ewha Womans University · 2023 - 2027

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Education, Training & Certifications


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