Faculty

ISAAC CHUANG
Professor

ISAAC CHUANG, Associate Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Name: Isaac Chuang

Title(s): Professor of Physics
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Email: ichuang@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 253-1692

Assistant: Joanna M. Keseberg (617) 253-6830

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 26-251
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics:

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Research Interests

How can physical systems represent and process information?

Can Nature be better understood in terms of information and computation?

Keywords: Quantum information science, AMO implementations of quantum computers, Entanglement and cryptography, Quantum algorithms, Spin detection and manipulation, Architectures for quantum information systems

Biographical Sketch

Prof. Chuang is a pioneer in the field of quantum information science. His experimental realization of two, three, five, and seven quantum bit quantum computers using nuclear spins in molecules provided the first laboratory demonstrations of many important quantum algorithms, including Shor's quantum factoring algorithm. The error correction,algorithmic cooling, and entanglement manipulation techniques he developed provide new ways to obtain complete quantum control over light and matter, and lay a foundation for possible large-scale quantum information processing systems.

Prof. Chuang came to MIT in 2000 from IBM, where he was a research staff member. He received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. Prof. Chuang also holds two bachelors and one masters degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author, together with Michael Nielsen, of the textbook Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.

Selected Publications