Markus Müller
Group Leader
Müller Group
http://mpmueller.net
Contact
Email: Markus.Mueller(at)oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 (1) 51581 - 9530
Room: 1.08
Biographical sketch
Professional Status
2017-present: Research Group Leader, IQOQI Vienna (tenured since 2022).
Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.
2015–2017: Assistant Professor, Departments of Applied Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Canada Research Chair in the Foundations of Physics.
Associate Faculty member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.
2013–2015: Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany.
2010–2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.
2004–2010: Research Assistant in Mathematical Physics (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”), TU Berlin.
Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Jens Eisert, Potsdam, 2008-2010.
Education
2021: Habilitation, University of Vienna, venia docendi in Theoretical Physics.
2007: Dr. rer. nat. (with distinction), Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Ruedi Seiler (Mathematical Physics).
2004: Diploma in Physics, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
1998-2004: Studies of Physics and Mathematics in Erlangen, Stony Brook (USA), and Berlin.
Academic Honors and Awards
2020: First Prize at the FQXi Essay Contest on "Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability".
2019: Best Paper Award 2019 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (for publication PRX 8, 041051 (2018)).
2016: Birkhoff-von Neumann Prize, for "outstanding achievements in the field of quantum structures".
>1 Mio. Euros of third-party funding since 2015.
Teaching
2020: Resource theories and thermodynamics, University of Vienna.
2018/19: Quantum correlations and generalized probabilistic theories: an introduction, University of Vienna.
2017: One-week course on Quantum Foundations, “Heidelberg Graduate Days”, Heidelberg University, Germany.
2015-2017: Courses on Basic Logic and Statistical Physics, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
2013-2015: Courses on Quantum Thermodynamics, Quantum correlations and generalized probabilistic theories, and Quantum Information Theory at Heidelberg University, Germany.
2004-2010: Organization of the exercises and tutorials of many courses in Mathematics for Physicists, Linear Algebra, and Mathematical Physics, TU Berlin, Germany.
Publications
Journal Publication (13)
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Hoehn, Philipp A. A.; Krumm, Marius; Mueller, Markus P. P. (2022) Internal quantum reference frames for finite Abelian groups. Journal of Mathematical Physics, Bd. 63 (11), S. ARTN 112207.
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Müller, Markus P. (2020) Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information theory. Quantum, Bd. 4, S. 301.
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Lostaglio, Matteo; Mueller, Markus P. (2019) Coherence and Asymmetry Cannot be Broadcast. Phys. Rev. Lett., Bd. 123 (2), S. 020403.
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Boes, Paul; Eisert, Jens; Gallego, Rodrigo; Mueller, Markus P.; Wilming, Henrik (2019) Von Neumann Entropy from Unitarity. Phys. Rev. Lett., Bd. 122 (21), S. 210402.
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Masanes, Lluís; Galley, Thomas D.; Mueller, Markus P. (2019) The measurement postulates of quantum mechanics are operationally redundant. Nature Communications, Bd. 10, S. 1361.
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Krumm, M.; Müller, M. P. (2019) Quantum computation is the unique reversible circuit model for which bits are balls. npj Quantum Information, Bd. 5, S. 7.
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Müller, Markus P. (2018) Correlating Thermal Machines and the Second Law in the Nanoscale. Physical Review X, Bd. 8, S. 041051.
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Müller, Markus P. (2018) Correlating Thermal Machines and the Second Law at the Nanoscale. PHYSICAL REVIEW X 8, Bd. 041051, S. 1-23.
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Scharlau, Jakob; Mueller, Markus P. (2018) Quantum Horn’s lemma, finite heat baths, and the third law of thermodynamics. Quantum, Bd. 2, S. 54.
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Riddell, Jonathon; Müller, Markus P. (2018) Generalized eigenstate typicality in translation-invariant quasifree fermionic models. Physical Review B, Bd. 97, S. 035129.
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Garner, Andrew J. P.; Müller, Markus P.; Dahlsten, Oscar C. O. (2017) The complex and quaternionic quantum bit from relativity of simultaneity on an interferometer. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Bd. 473, S. 2208.
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Müller, M.; Carrozza, S.; Höhn, P. A. (2017) Is the local linearity of space-time inherited from the linearity of probabilities?. Journal of Physics A, Bd. 50 (5), S. 054003.
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Höhn, P. A.; Müller, M. P. (2016) An operational approach to spacetime symmetries: Lorentz transformations from quantum communication. New Journal of Physics, Bd. 18, S. 063026.
Contribution in Collection (1)
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Koberinski, Adam; Müller, Markus P. (2018) Quantum Theory as a Principle Theory: Insights from an Information-Theoretic Reconstruction. In: Press, Cambridge University (Hrsg.), S. 257-280.
