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Prof. Dr. Robert König

Technical University of Munich

Associate Professorship of Theory of Complex Quantum Systems (Prof. König)

Postal address

Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München

Homepage: Research group Quantum Information Theory

12/2020 - present associate professor Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München
01/2015 - 11/2020 assistant professor TUM Institute for Advanced Study and Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München
08/2012 - 12/2014 assistant professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
06/2011 - 06/2012 postdoctoral researcher Physics of Information/Quantum Information group, IBM Watson Research Center
11/2007 - 05/2011 postdoctoral researcher Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology (supported by an SNF fellowship starting 11/2009)
2005 - 2007 Ph.D. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
2003 - 2005 research and teaching assistant Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
1998 - 2003 diploma (MSc.) Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Research interests

  • Quantum communication theory
  • Fault-tolerant quantum information processing
  • Quantum computation
  • Many-body physics and variational methods

2022

  • Bravyi, Sergey; Kim, Isaac; Kliesch, Alexander; Koenig, Robert: Adaptive constant-depth circuits for manipulating non-abelian anyons. , 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Bravyi, Sergey; Kliesch, Alexander; Koenig, Robert; Tang, Eugene: Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for approximate graph coloring. Quantum 6, 2022, 678 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Caha, Libor; Coiteux-Roy, Xavier; Koenig, Robert: Single-qubit gate teleportation provides a quantum advantage. arXiv, 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Caha, Libor; Kliesch, Alexander; Koenig, Robert: Twisted hybrid algorithms for combinatorial optimization. Quantum Science and Technology 7 (4), 2022, 045013 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Choe, Shin Ho; Koenig, Robert: Long-range data transmission in a fault-tolerant quantum bus architecture. , 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Hanggli, Lisa; Konig, Robert: Oscillator-to-Oscillator Codes Do Not Have a Threshold. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 68 (2), 2022, 1068-1084 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2020

  • Bravyi, Sergey; Gosset, David; König, Robert; Tomamichel, Marco: Quantum advantage with noisy shallow circuits. Nature Physics 16 (10), 2020, 1040-1045 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Bravyi, Sergey; Kliesch, Alexander; Koenig, Robert; Tang, Eugene: Obstacles to Variational Quantum Optimization from Symmetry Protection. Physical Review Letters 125 (26), 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Huber, Stefan; Konig, Robert; Tomamichel, Marco: Jointly Constrained Semidefinite Bilinear Programming With an Application to Dobrushin Curves. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 66 (5), 2020, 2934-2950 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Hänggli, Lisa; Heinze, Margret; König, Robert: Enhanced noise resilience of the surface--Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill code via designed bias. Physical Review A 102, 2020, 052408 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Kliesch, Alexander; König, Robert: Continuum Limits of Homogeneous Binary Trees and the Thompson Group. Physical Review Letters 124 (1), 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2019

  • Bravyi, Sergey; Gosset, David; König, Robert; Temme, Kristan: Approximation algorithms for quantum many-body problems. Journal of Mathematical Physics 60 (3), 2019, 032203 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Fukuda, Motohisa; Koenig, Robert: Typical entanglement for Gaussian states. Journal of Mathematical Physics 60 (11), 2019, 112203 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Fukuda, Motohisa; König, Robert; Nechita, Ion: RTNI—A symbolic integrator for Haar-random tensor networks. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 52 (42), 2019, 425303 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Gschwendtner, Martina; König, Robert; Şahinoğlu, Burak; Tang, Eugene: Quantum error-detection at low energies. Journal of High Energy Physics 2019 (9), 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Heinze, Margret; König, Robert: Universal Uhrig Dynamical Decoupling for Bosonic Systems. Physical Review Letters 123 (1), 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2018

  • Bravyi, Sergey; Englbrecht, Matthias; König, Robert; Peard, Nolan: Correcting coherent errors with surface codes. npj Quantum Information 4 (1), 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Huber, Stefan; König, Robert: Coherent state coding approaches the capacity of non-Gaussian bosonic channels. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 51 (18), 2018, 184001 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2017

  • Hiai, Fumio; König, Robert; Tomamichel, Marco: Generalized Log-Majorization and Multivariate Trace Inequalities. Annales Henri Poincaré 18 (7), 2017, 2499-2521 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Huber, Stefan; König, Robert; Vershynina, Anna: Geometric inequalities from phase space translations. Journal of Mathematical Physics 58 (1), 2017, 012206 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Idel, Martin; Koenig, Robert: On quantum additive Gaussian noise channels. Quantum Information & Computation (acm.org) Vol. 17, Issue 3-4, pp 283–302, 2017 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Scholz, Volkher B.: Matrix product approximations to conformal field theories. Nuclear Physics B 920, 2017, 32-121 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2016

  • Beverland, Michael E.; Buerschaper, Oliver; Koenig, Robert; Pastawski, Fernando; Preskill, John; Sijher, Sumit: Protected gates for topological quantum field theories. Journal of Mathematical Physics 57 (2), 2016, 022201 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Scholz, Volkher B.: Matrix Product Approximations to Multipoint Functions in Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory. Physical Review Letters 117 (12), 2016 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Ni, Xiaotong; Pastawski, Fernando; Yoshida, Beni; König, Robert: Preparing topologically ordered states by Hamiltonian interpolation. New Journal of Physics 18 (9), 2016, 093027 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2015

  • Koenig, Robert: The conditional entropy power inequality for Gaussian quantum states. Journal of Mathematical Physics 56 (2), 2015, 022201 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2014

  • Dengis, John; König, Robert; Pastawski, Fernando: An optimal dissipative encoder for the toric code. New Journal of Physics 16 (1), 2014, 013023 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Koenig, Robert; Smolin, John A.: How to efficiently select an arbitrary Clifford group element. Journal of Mathematical Physics 55 (12), 2014, 122202 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Konig, Robert; Smith, Graeme: The Entropy Power Inequality for Quantum Systems. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 60 (3), 2014, 1536-1548 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Pastawski, Fernando: Generating topological order: No speedup by dissipation. Physical Review B 90 (4), 2014 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2013

  • Bravyi, Sergey; König, Robert: Classification of Topologically Protected Gates for Local Stabilizer Codes. Physical Review Letters 110 (17), 2013 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Smith, Graeme: Limits on classical communication from quantum entropy power inequalities. Nature Photonics 7 (2), 2013, 142-146 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Smith, Graeme: Classical Capacity of Quantum Thermal Noise Channels to within 1.45 Bits. Physical Review Letters 110 (4), 2013 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2012

  • Bravyi, Sergey; Koenig, Robert: Classical simulation of dissipative fermionic linear optics. Quantum Information & Computation (acm.org) Volume 12, Issue 11-12, pp 925–943, 2012 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Bravyi, Sergey; König, Robert: Disorder-Assisted Error Correction in Majorana Chains. Communications in Mathematical Physics 316 (3), 2012, 641-692 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Konig, Robert; Wehner, Stephanie; Wullschleger, Jürg: Unconditional Security From Noisy Quantum Storage. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 58 (3), 2012, 1962-1984 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2011

  • Beigi, Salman; König, Robert: Simplified instantaneous non-local quantum computation with applications to position-based cryptography. New Journal of Physics 13 (9), 2011, 093036 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Konig, Robert; Renner, Renato: Sampling of Min-Entropy Relative to Quantum Knowledge. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 57 (7), 2011, 4760-4787 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2010

  • Alagic, Gorjan; Jordan, Stephen P.; König, Robert; Reichardt, Ben W.: Estimating Turaev-Viro three-manifold invariants is universal for quantum computation. Physical Review A 82 (4), 2010 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Koenig, Robert: Simplifying quantum double Hamiltonians using perturbative gadgets. Quantum Information & Computation (acm.org) Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 292–324, 2010 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Koenig, Robert; Kuperberg, Greg; Reichardt, Ben W.: Quantum computation with Turaev–Viro codes. Annals of Physics 325 (12), 2010, 2707-2749 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert: Composite anyon coding and the initialization of a topological quantum computer. Physical Review A 81 (5), 2010 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Bilgin, Ersen: Anyonic entanglement renormalization. Physical Review B 82 (12), 2010 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2009

  • Christandl, Matthias; König, Robert; Renner, Renato: Postselection Technique for Quantum Channels with Applications to Quantum Cryptography. Physical Review Letters 102 (2), 2009 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Koenig, Robert; Maurer, Ueli; Tessaro, Stefano: Abstract Storage Devices. SOFSEM 2009: Theory and Practice of Computer Science 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Špindleruv Mlýn, Czech Republic, January 24-30, 2009. Proceedings, SpringerLink, 2009 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Koenig, Robert; Mitchison, Graeme: A most compendious and facile quantum de Finetti theorem. Journal of Mathematical Physics: Vol 50, No 1 (scitation.org), 2009 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Konig, Robert; Renner, Renato; Schaffner, Christian: The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-Entropy. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 55 (9), 2009, 4337-4347 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Reichardt, Ben W.; Vidal, Guifré: Exact entanglement renormalization for string-net models. Physical Review B 79 (19), 2009 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Wehner, Stephanie: A Strong Converse for Classical Channel Coding Using Entangled Inputs. Physical Review Letters 103 (7), 2009 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Wolf, Michael M.: On exchangeable continuous variable systems. Journal of Mathematical Physics 50 (1), 2009, 012102 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2008

  • Konig, Robert T.; Terhal, Barbara M.: The Bounded-Storage Model in the Presence of a Quantum Adversary. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 54 (2), 2008, 749-762 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2007

  • Christandl, Matthias; König, Robert; Mitchison, Graeme; Renner, Renato: One-and-a-Half Quantum de Finetti Theorems. Communications in Mathematical Physics 273 (2), 2007, 473-498 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Renner, Renato; Bariska, Andor; Maurer, Ueli: Small Accessible Quantum Information Does Not Imply Security. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 2007, 140502 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2005

  • Konig, R.; Maurer, U.; Renner, R.: On the Power of Quantum Memory. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 51 (7), 2005, 2391-2401 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • König, Robert; Renner, Renato: A de Finetti representation for finite symmetric quantum states. Journal of Mathematical Physics 46 (12), 2005, 122108 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

A list of previous courses can be found on TUMonline.

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