Welcome to Prof. Christopher Monroe's research group at the University of Maryland Department of Physics and Joint Quantum Institute.

Our group focuses on the use of individual atoms and photons for fundamental studies of quantum physics and applications in quantum information science.

A long term goal of our research is the fabrication of a large-scale quantum computer network that could store and process information in a way that could eclipse the performance of a conventional computer. Our main tools are the ion trap and the laser, providing control of the most pristine source of qubits: trapped atomic ions.

Cadmium Yellow Entangled, by Boris Blinov (2005)

Latest News

June 26, 2009: Demonstration of entangling quantum gate between arbitrary states of remote atomic qubits: Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250502 (2009).

May 2, 2009: Measurement and control of spin-spin couplings in three atoms, for entanglement and simulation of quantum magnetism: ArXiv 0905.0225

Jan 22, 2009: Quantum teleportation of a single atom over a distance of 1 meter

N.R. Fuller, National Science Foundation

Jan 10, 2009: Proposal for anharmonic linear ion trap that can stabilize huge single crystals for scalable quantum computing: arXiv 0901.0579

Aug 1, 2008: Large Yb-171 crystals in tightly-confining microtrap

Apr 19, 2008: Bell Inequality Measured with two widely-separated massive particles. Quantum mechanics pulls out yet another victory. (article)

Acknowledgements

Funding for this research is provided by the Intellegence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA); the National Security Agency (NSA), the Army Research Office (ARO), the NSF Physics Frontier Center at JQI, the NSF Physics at the Information Frontier (PIF) Program; and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) MEMS-Exchange and Optical Lattice Emulator Programs, and the National Geospatial Agency IC Postdoc Program.