Publications

Below are our publications over the years. They're organized by overall topic, but note that there is often significant overlap and many of these papers fit equally well in multiple categories.

Quantum glasses

• "The glass transition of quantum hard spheres in high dimensions." M. Winer, C. L. Baldwin, R. D. Barney, V. Galitski, B. Swingle. Phys. Rev. E 109, 044112 (2024). arXiv:2311.04968.
• "Revisiting the replica trick: Competition between spin glass and conventional order."
  C. L. Baldwin, B. Swingle. J. Stat. Phys. 190, 125 (2023). arXiv:2302.01361.
• "Quenched vs annealed: Glassiness from SK to SYK." C. L. Baldwin, B. Swingle.
  Phys. Rev. X 10, 031026 (2020). arXiv:1911.11865.
• "Clustering of non-ergodic eigenstates in quantum spin glasses." C. L. Baldwin,
  C. R. Laumann, A. Pal, A. Scardicchio. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127201 (2017). arXiv:1611.02296.
• "The many-body localized phase of the quantum Random Energy Model." C. L. Baldwin,
  C. R. Laumann, A. Pal, A. Scardicchio. Phys. Rev. B 93, 024202 (2016). arXiv:1509.08926.

Quantum annealing & computation

• "The anomalously slow dynamics of inhomogeneous quantum annealing." M. Dadgar,
  C. L. Baldwin. Phys. Rev. A 111, 062601 (2025). arXiv:2502.03535.
• "Simulation complexity of many-body localized systems." A. Ehrenberg, A. Deshpande,
  C. L. Baldwin, D. A. Abanin, A. V. Gorshkov. Under review. arXiv:2205.12967.
• "Optimal protocols in quantum annealing and QAOA problems." L. T. Brady, C. L. Baldwin,
  A. Bapat, Y. Kharkov, A. V. Gorshkov. Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070505 (2021). arXiv:2003.08952.
• "Quantum approximate optimization of the long-range Ising model with a trapped-ion quantum simulator." G. Pagano, A. Bapat, P. Becker, K. S. Collins, A. De, P. W. Hess, H. B. Kaplan, A. Kyprianidis, W. L. Tan, C. L. Baldwin, L. T. Brady, A. Deshpande, F. Liu, S. Jordan, A. V. Gorshkov, C. Monroe. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 25396 (2020). arXiv:1906.02700.
• "Quantum algorithm for energy matching in hard optimization problems." C. L. Baldwin,
  C. R. Laumann. Phys. Rev. B 97, 224201 (2018). arXiv:1803.02410.

Lieb-Robinson bounds

• "Time independence does not limit information flow. II. The case with ancillas."
  T. C. Mooney, D. Yuan, C. L. Baldwin, A. V. Gorshkov, A. M. Childs. Under review. arXiv:2505.18254.
• "Time independence does not limit information flow. I. The free-particle case." D. Yuan,
  C. Yin, T. C. Mooney, C. L. Baldwin, A. M. Childs, A. V. Gorshkov. Under review. arXiv:2505.18249.
• "Sub-ballistic operator growth in spin chains with heavy-tailed random fields." C. L. Baldwin. Phys. Rev. B 111, 184204 (2025). arXiv:2409.17242.
• "Disordered Lieb-Robinson bounds in one dimension." C. L. Baldwin, A. Ehrenberg,
  A. Y. Guo, A. V. Gorshkov. PRX Quantum 4, 020349 (2023). arXiv:2208.05509.
• "Lieb-Robinson light cone for power-law interactions." M. C. Tran, A. Y. Guo, C. L. Baldwin, A. Ehrenberg, A. V. Gorshkov, A. Lucas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160401 (2021). arXiv:2103.15828.

Quantum chaos

• "Spectral statistics of a minimal quantum glass model." R. D. Barney, M. Winer, C. L. Baldwin, B. Swingle, V. Galitski. SciPost Phys. 15, 084 (2023). arXiv:2302.00703.
• "Spectral form factor of a quantum spin glass." M. Winer, R. D. Barney, C. L. Baldwin,
  V. Galitski, B. Swingle. JHEP 09, 032 (2022). arXiv:2203.12753.

Nonlinear waves

• "Singularities in nearly-uniform one-dimensional condensates due to quantum diffusion."
  C. L. Baldwin, P. Bienias, A. V. Gorshkov, M. J. Gullans, M. Maghrebi. Phys. Rev. A 104, L041303 (2021). arXiv:2103.06293.

Strongly correlated systems

• "Mott-moiré excitons." T.-S. Huang, Y.-Z. Chou, C. L. Baldwin, F. Wu, M. Hafezi.
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 195151 (2023). arXiv:2207.13152.
• "Spin-mediated Mott excitons." T.-S. Huang, C. L. Baldwin, M. Hafezi, V. Galitski.
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 075111 (2023). arXiv:2004.10825.

Population dynamics

• "Distinct critical behaviors from the same state in quantum spin and population dynamics perspectives." C. L. Baldwin, S. Shivam, S. L. Sondhi, M. Kardar. Phys. Rev. E 103, 012106 (2021). arXiv:2009.05064.
• "Studying viral populations with tools from quantum spin chains." S. Shivam, C. L. Baldwin,
  J. Barton, M. Kardar, S. L. Sondhi. J. Stat. Phys. 182, 38 (2021). arXiv:2003.10668.

Directed polymers & interfering paths

• "Magnetoenhancement of superconductivity in composite d-wave superconductors."
  M. Schiulaz, C. L. Baldwin, C. R. Laumann, B. Z. Spivak. Phys. Rev. B 98, 094508 (2018). arXiv:1806.00912.
• "Sign phase transition in the problem of interfering directed paths." C. L. Baldwin,
  C. R. Laumann, B. Spivak. Phys. Rev. B 97, 014203 (2018). arXiv:1709.03516.