Christopher Baldwin | QuICS

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023)

cbaldwi3@umd.edu

2253 Atlantic Building

Chris is a theoretical physicist working at the intersection of statistical physics, condensed matter physics, and quantum computing. He is interested in the macroscopic structures which emerge from microscopic building blocks and how those structures can be designed & utilized, particularly in systems with quenched disorder and/or chaotic dynamics. Specific subjects include the dynamics of mean-field spin glasses & their relevance for optimization problems, formation of polaritons in strongly-correlated materials and Rydberg gases, and the application of statistical physics & many-body techniques to population dynamics. Chris obtained his PhD from the University of Washington in 2018, supervised by Chris Laumann (now at Boston University), before joining NIST and JQI as an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow from 2021 to 2023). He is a faculty member at Michigan State University.

Publications

2022

A. Ehrenberg, Deshpande, A., Baldwin, C. L., Abanin, D. A., and Gorshkov, A. V., “Simulation Complexity of Many-Body Localized Systems”, 2022.

M. Winer, Barney, R., Baldwin, C. L., Galitski, V., and Swingle, B., “Spectral Form Factor of a Quantum Spin Glass”, 2022.

2021

M. C. Tran, Guo, A. Y., Baldwin, C. L., Ehrenberg, A., Gorshkov, A. V., and Lucas, A., “The Lieb-Robinson light cone for power-law interactions”, 2021.

C. L. Baldwin, Bienias, P., Gorshkov, A. V., Gullans, M., and Maghrebi, M., “Singularities in nearly-uniform 1D condensates due to quantum diffusion”, 2021.

2020

C. L. Baldwin, Shivam, S., Sondhi, S. L., and Kardar, M., “Distinct Critical Behaviors from the Same State in Quantum Spin and Population Dynamics Perspectives”, 2020.

T. - S. Huang, Baldwin, C. L., Hafezi, M., and Galitski, V., “Spin-Mediated Mott Excitons”, 2020.

S. Shivam, Baldwin, C. L., Barton, J., Kardar, M., and Sondhi, S. L., “Studying viral populations with tools from quantum spin chains”, 2020.

L. T. Brady, Baldwin, C. L., Bapat, A., Kharkov, Y., and Gorshkov, A. V., “Optimal Protocols in Quantum Annealing and QAOA Problems”, 2020.

2019

C. L. Baldwin and Swingle, B., “Quenched vs Annealed: Glassiness from SK to SYK”, 2019.

G. Pagano, Bapat, A., Becker, P., Collins, K. S., De, A., Hess, P. W., Kaplan, H. B., Kyprianidis, A., Tan, W. L., Baldwin, C. L., Brady, L. T., Deshpande, A., Liu, F., Jordan, S., Gorshkov, A. V., and Monroe, C., “Quantum Approximate Optimization with a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator”, 2019.