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RESEARCH AREAS:

  • Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

  • Quantum Information Theory

  • Physics of Information

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MARKUS MÜLLER

Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna;
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics;
Rotman Institute of Philosophy

Markus Müller is a theoretical physicist and an external member of the Rotman Institute. He is also a Research Group Leader at the IQOQI in Vienna and a Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. His research is motivated by the idea that information and computation play a central role in the foundations of physics. Markus has worked on quantum information theory, quantum thermodynamics, and the question how quantum theory can be derived from simple physical principles. After obtaining his PhD in Berlin, he has been a postdoc in Potsdam, at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, and at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. Most recently, Markus and collaborators have started to explore how an epistemic view of the quantum state, and of physics more generally, can help overcome some limitations of previous approaches to quantum and space-time physics.

More information on Markus’s research can be found on https://www.iqoqi-vienna.at/research/mueller-group/.

A full list of publications can be found here: http://www.mpmueller.net/research.html

G. Chiribella, A. Cabello, M. Kleinmann, and M. P. Müller, General Bayesian theories and the emergence of the exclusivity principle, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 042001(R) (2020), arXiv:1901.11412

M. P. Müller, Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information theory, Quantum 4, 301 (2020), arXiv:1712.01826
A. J. P. Garner, M. Krumm, and M. P. Müller, Semi-device-independent information processing with spatiotemporal degrees of freedom, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013112 (2020), arXiv:1907.09274

M. Lostaglio and M. P. Müller, Coherence and asymmetry cannot be broadcast, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020403 (2019), arXiv:1812.08214
Ll. Masanes, T. D. Galley, and M. P. Müller, The measurement postulates of quantum mechanics are operationally redundant, Nat. Comm. 10, 1361 (2019), arXiv:1811.11060

P. Boes, J. Eisert, R. Gallego, M. P. Müller, and H. Wilming, Von Neumann entropy from unitarity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210402 (2019), arXiv:1807.08773
M. Krumm and M. P. Müller, Quantum computation is the unique reversible circuit model for which bits are balls, npj Quantum Information 5, 7 (2019), arXiv:1804.05736

J. Riddell and M. P. Müller, Generalized eigenstate typicality in translation-invariant quasifree fermionic models, Phys. Rev. B 97, 035129 (2018), arXiv:1709.05569
M. P. Müller, Correlating thermal machines and the second law at the nanoscale, Phys. Rev. X 8, 041051 (2018), arXiv:1707.03451

J. Scharlau and M. P. Müller, Quantum Horn’s lemma, finite heat baths, and the third law of thermodynamics, Quantum 2, 54 (2018), arXiv:1605.06092

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