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SUMMARY:ICFO | CHRISTOPHER MONROE 
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DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;\nBIO\nChristopher Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presiden
 tial Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph
 ysics at Duke University\, and the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at IonQ\
 , Inc. Monroe has pioneered nearly all aspects of trapped ion quantum comp
 uting\, from the demonstration of the first quantum gate\, a monolithic se
 miconductor chip ion trap\, and photonic interconnections between separate
 d ion trap systems. He is a key architect of the US National Quantum Initi
 ative\, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society\, Optical Society of 
 America\, the UK Institute of Physics\, the American Association for the A
 dvancement of Science\, and is a member of the National Academy of Science
 s.\n&nbsp\;\nABSTRACT\nTrapped atomic ions are a leading physical platform
  for quantum computers\, featuring qubits with essentially infinite idle c
 oherence times and the highest purity quantum gate operations. Such atomic
  clock qubits are controlled with laser beams\, allowing densely-connected
  and reconfigurable universal gate sets. The path to scale involves concre
 te architectural paths based on well-established protocols\, from shuttlin
 g ions between QPU cores to modular photonic interconnects between multipl
 e QPUs. Full-stack ion trap quantum computers have thus moved away from th
 e physics of qubits and gates and toward the engineering of optical contro
 l signals\, quantum gate compilation for algorithms\, and software-defined
  error mitigation and correction. I will summarize the state-of-the-art in
  these quantum computers in both academic and industrial settings\, and su
 mmarize how they are being used for both scientific and commercial applica
 tions.
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