Monroe group (Duke / Maryland JQI)
- Institution
- Duke University
- Lab / Centre
- Duke Quantum Center · Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering · Department of Physics
- Also
- Joint Quantum Institute (JQI, University of Maryland / NIST) — historical and continuing affiliation
- Location
- Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Group website
- https://quantum.duke.edu/
Christopher Monroe's group works on trapped-ion quantum computing and ion-photon networking, and produced the foundational demonstrations of remote ion-ion entanglement via heralded photon interference that underpin modern matter-qubit network architectures. Monroe co-founded IonQ in 2015 (see companies/ionq.yaml) and relocated the primary laboratory from JQI Maryland to Duke around 2021 as founding Director of the Duke Quantum Center. Current effort centres on multi-species Ba-138 / Yb-171 ion-trap nodes for modular ion-network testbeds.
Current focus: Trapped-ion quantum computing and networking
Milestones
- 2023-04 Multi-species Ba-138 / Yb-171 ion-trap node demonstrations for modular ion networks preprint
- 2021-01 Duke Quantum Center established; primary trapped-ion lab relocates from JQI Maryland to Duke press
- 2015-05 IonQ co-founded by Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim (Duke), commercialising trapped-ion quantum computing press
- 2014-09 Modular entanglement of atomic qubits using photons and phonons — heralded ion-ion Bell pair across a metre-scale link paper
- 2007-09 Observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon paper
People
- Christopher Monroe — Principal Investigator; Director, Duke Quantum Center (since 2021) ↗
Funding
- Army Research Office (ARO) — Long-running programme support for trapped-ion quantum computing and networking
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) — Trapped-ion and atomic-physics basic-research grants
- IARPA — LogiQ and successor programmes on logical-qubit demonstrations
- National Science Foundation (NSF) — Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes and core atomic-physics grants
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) — Quantum Information Science research awards
- Duke University / Duke Quantum Center — Host institution; direct institutional funding since 2021
- Joint Quantum Institute (U. Maryland / NIST) — Historical and continuing host affiliation; co-funded ion-photon programme through ~2021
References
- Moehring et al. Nature 449, 68 (2007) — entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon (paper)
- Hucul et al. Nat. Phys. 11, 37 (2015) — modular entanglement of atomic qubits using photons and phonons (paper)
- Multi-species Ba-138 / Yb-171 ion-trap node for modular ion networks (preprint)