Micius Quantum Prize

Micius Quantum Prize
Awarded for	promoting the quantum information science and technology research
Location	Shanghai
Country	China
Hosted by	Micius quantum foundation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Reward	1,000,000 ¥ (150,000$)
First award	2018
Website	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 Sciences.

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	File:David Deutsch.jpg	David Deutsch	United Kingdom Israel	"For his seminal conceptual contributions on quantum Turing machine and Quantum algorithm"	Theory
	File:Peter Shor 2017 Dirac Medal Award Ceremony.png	Peter Shor	United States	"For his groundbreaking theoretical work on factoring algorithm and quantum error correction"
	File:Zoller Peter.jpg	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"
	File:Prof Cirac office klein (cropped).jpg	Ignacio Cirac	Spain
	File:Blatt rainer.jpg	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
	File:David Wineland 2008.jpg	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
		Charles H. Bennett	United States	"For their inventions of quantum key distribution, quantum teleportation, and entanglement purification"
	File:Gilles Brassard (2019).jpg	Gilles Brassard	Canada
	File:Artur Ekert 2011.jpg	Artur Ekert	Poland United Kingdom	"For his inventions of entanglement-based quantum key distribution, entanglement swapping, and entanglement purification"
	File:潘建伟 20230826.jpg	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
	File:Godany zeilinger2011 2452 blackboard.jpg	Anton Zeilinger	Austria
2020	File:Carlton M Caves 10-3-2020.jpg	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
		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
	File:Colliding Fermions; Atomic Clock Accuracy (5978323607).jpg	Jun Ye	United States
2021		John Clarke	United States	"For their leading roles in pioneering superconducting quantum circuits and qubits."	Experimental
	File:Michel H. Devoret 2017 190x180.jpg	Michel H. Devoret	France
	File:Yasunobu Nakamura cropped Yasunobu Nakamura 202303.jpg	Yasunobu Nakamura	Japan
2022		Not awarded
2023	File:Nicolas Gisin 201508.jpg	Nicolas Gisin	Switzerland	"For their important contributions in early quantum key distribution experiments using optical fibers."	Experimental
	File:Profesor John G. Rarity FRS.jpg	John Rarity	United Kingdom