Christopher Fuchs
Distinguished Professor of Physics
Biography
Prof. Fuchs previously held research positions at Bell Labs and the Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics. He was a Lee DuBridge Prize Postdoc at Caltech, 1996-99. He has over 170 publications, including a paper on quantum teleportation voted a "Top Ten Breakthrough of 1998" by Science. He was a winner of the 2010 Intl. Quantum Comm. Award and elected Fellow of the Am. Phys. Soc. in 2012 for contributions to QBism. Recent recognition includes selection for the 2023 Vox Future Perfect 50 list.
Area of Expertise
Quantum Information Theory
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Degrees
BS in Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 1987
BS in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1987
PhD in Physics, University of New Mexico, 1996
Professional Publications & Contributions
Fuchs, C. A. (2010). QBism, the Perimeter of Quantum Bayesianism. . [To be reprinted in Fuchs, C. A. (2026). The Birth of QBism. World Scientific.]
Fuchs, C. A. (2011). Coming of Age with Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511762789
Fuchs, C. A., & Schack, R. (2013). Quantum-Bayesian coherence. Reviews of Modern Physics, 85(4), 1693.
Fuchs, C. A., Mermin, N. D., & Schack, R. (2014). An introduction to QBism with an application to the locality of quantum mechanics. American Journal of Physics, 82(8), 749–754.
Fuchs, C. A., & Schack, R. (2014). QBism and the Greeks: Why a quantum state does not represent an element of physical reality. Physica Scripta, 90(1), 015104.
Fuchs, C. A. (2017). On participatory realism. In I. T. Durham & D. Rickles (Eds.), Information and Interaction: Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge (pp. 113–134). Springer.
Fuchs, C. A. (2017). Notwithstanding Bohr, the reasons for QBism. Mind and Matter, 15(2), 245–300.
DeBrota, J. B., Fuchs, C. A., & Schack, R. (2020). Respecting one's fellow: QBism's analysis of Wigner's friend. Foundations of Physics, 50(12), 1859–1874.
Fuchs, C. A. (2024). QBism, Where Next?. In P. Berghofer & H. A. Wiltsche (Eds.), Phenomenology and QBism: New Approaches to Quantum Mechanics (pp. 78–143). Routledge.