Micius Quantum Prize

The Micius Quantum Prize is awarded every year since 2018 "for promoting the quantum information science and technology research". The recipients are awarded one million Chinese yuan (about 150,000 US dollars) and a gold medal. The prize is awarded by the Micius quantum foundation, which was established thanks to donations (with a sum of 100 million Chinese yuan) from private entrepreneurs. Chair of the selection committee is Chunli Bai, the president of the Chinese Academy of Science.

Micius Quantum Prize
Awarded forfor promoting the quantum information science and technology research
LocationShanghai
CountryChina
Hosted byMicius quantum foundation, Chinese Academy of Science
Reward(s)1,000,000 ¥ (150,000$)
First awarded2018
WebsiteMicius Quantum Prize

The prize is named after Mozi, an ancient Chinese philosopher (~400 B.C) who founded the school of Mohism during the Hundred Schools of Thought period.

Laureates
Year Image Laureate[A] Country[B] Rationale[C] Category Ref
2018 David Deutsch  United Kingdom
 Israel		 "For his seminal conceptual contributions on quantum Turing machine and Quantum algorithm" Theory [1]
Peter Shor  United States "For his groundbreaking theoretical work on factoring algorithm and quantum error correction"
Peter Zoller  Austria "For their outstanding theoretical contributions that enabled the scalable implementations of quantum information processing such as quantum computation with trapped ions, quantum simulation with ultracold atoms, and quantum repeaters"
Ignacio Cirac  Spain
Rainer Blatt  Germany
 Austria		 "For his pioneering experimental work on the realizations of quantum logic gates, multiparticle entanglement, quantum simulation, and quantum computing algorithms using trapped ions" Experimental
David Wineland  United States "For his groundbreaking experiments that opened the way to quantum computing and quantum metrology with trapped ions"
2019 Stephen Wiesner  Israel "For his original conceptual idea on conjugate coding that inspired the discovery of practical quantum cryptography" Theory [2]
Charles H. Bennett  United States "For their inventions of quantum key distribution, quantum teleportation, and entanglement purification"
Gilles Brassard  Canada
Artur Ekert  Poland
 United Kingdom		 "For his inventions of entanglement-based quantum key distribution, entanglement swapping, and entanglement purification"
Pan Jianwei  China "For their groundbreaking experiments in multi-photon interferometry and free-space quantum transmission that enabled practically secure and large-scale quantum communications" Experimental
Anton Zeilinger  Austria
2020 Carlton M. Caves  United States "For his foundational work on quantum metrology and quantum information theory, especially for elucidating the fundamental noise in interferometers and its suppression with the use of squeezed states." Theory [3]
Hidetoshi Katori  Japan "For their groundbreaking achievements in precision quantum measurements, in particular for the development of extremely stable and accurate optical atomic clocks." Experimental
Jun Ye  China
 United States

References
  1. "Micius Quantum Prize 2018". Micius Quantum Foundation. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. "Micius Quantum Prize 2019". Micius Quantum Foundation. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  3. "Micius Quantum Prize 2020". Micius Quantum Foundation. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
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