Christine Muschik

Assistant Professor

Christine Muschik Dr. Muschik is an expert in the theory of quantum communication and quantum simulation. Quantum communication exploits the features of quantum mechanical systems for advantages in communication tasks, such as unbreakable security or significant reductions in the resources required to send a message. Quantum simulation uses one type of quantum system, over which one has complete control, to mimic the behaviour of another, where over control is limited or non existent. Quantum simulation has the potential to guide the development of new materials or complex molecules and expand our understanding of fundamental physics.

Contact information
Office: QNC 4122
Phone: 519 888-4567 ext. 30228
Email: cmuschik@uwaterloo.ca
Website: https://www.quantum-interactions.org/

Expertise

Quantum networks
Quantum sensing
Quantum simulations
High-energy physics simulation with quantum computers

Research

Dr. Muschik leads a theoretical quantum optics group based in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.

The group develops novel tools for investigating and engineering light-matter interactions with applications in the field of quantum information science. Their work involves close collaborations with experimental groups and focuses particularly on finding new protocols for realizing (i) quantum networks and (ii) quantum simulations of models from high energy physics.

Highlighted Publications

Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer Nature 534, 516-519 (2016)

Quantum computer makes first high-energy physics simulation

Autonomous Quantum Error Correction and Application to Quantum Sensing with Trapped Ions, to appear in Nature Communications

Deterministic quantum teleportation between distant atomic objects, Nature Physics 9, 400 (2013)

Please see Google scholar for a complete list of Professor Muschik's publications.

Awards and Distinctions

2016 Award of the City of Innsbruck for Scientific Research
Feodor Lynen research fellowship for postdoctoral researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011-2013)
Scholarship by the International PhD program of excellence: Quantum Computing, Control and Communication supported by the ENB (Elite Network of Bavaria) (2006-2010)