John Stewart Bell Prize

The John Stewart Bell Prize has been awarded every two years by the University of Toronto (Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, CQIQC) since 2009 for achievements in the fundamentals of quantum mechanics , both in basic research and in applications, for example in quantum information theory ( Quantum computers , quantum cryptography , quantum control ). The research honored with the award should come from the past six years. The reward is less for lifetime achievement than significant recent contributions to research in this area, which has been changing rapidly since the 1990s.

The award is named after the quantum physicist John Stewart Bell , the originator of the Bell inequalities .

Award winners

Each with an official laudatory speech:

2009 Nicolas Gisin for his theoretical and experimental work on the fundamentals and applications of quantum physics, especially quantum non-locality, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. With sources of single and entangled photons on wavelengths used in telecommunications, he implemented these quantum defects on a commercial fiber optic network in the range of 10 to 100 km .
2011 Sandu Popescu for discoveries of stronger-than-quantum non-signal correlations and their application to thermodynamics .
2013 Robert J. Schoelkopf , Michel Devoret for fundamental and groundbreaking experimental advances in the quantum entanglement of superconducting qubits with microwave photons and their application in quantum information theory .
2015 Rainer Blatt , for pioneering research on quantum information processes with ions in ion traps, especially for his recent demonstrations of analog and digital quantum simulators and quantum logic gates on a topologically coded qubit .
2017 Ronald Hanson , Sae Woo Nam , Anton Zeilinger for the experiments of their groups, which at the same time closed the loopholes in terms of detection and locality in a violation of Bell's inequality .
2019 Peter Zoller , Ignacio Cirac for outstanding achievements in the field of quantum information processing

Web links

official website

Individual evidence

↑ For his theoretical and experimental work on foundations and applications of quantum physics, in particular: quantum non-locality, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. With sources of single and entangled photons at telecommunication wavelength, he implemented these quantum effects on a commercial optical fiber network in the 10-100km range.
↑ For discoveries of stronger-than-quantum no-signaling correlations, and the application of quantum theory to thermodynamics.
↑ For fundamental and pioneering experimental advances in entangling superconducting qubits and microwave photons, and their application to quantum information processing.
↑ For his pioneering research on quantum information processing with trapped ions, in particular, for the recent demonstrations of analog and digital quantum simulators and quantum logic gates on a topologically encoded qubit.
↑ For their groups' experiments simultaneously closing the detection and locality loopholes in a violation of Bell's inequalities.
^ Christian Flatz, Stefan Hohenwarter: Bell Prize for quantum physicist Peter Zoller. In: uibk.ac.at. University of Innsbruck , August 27, 2019, accessed on August 29, 2019 .

[1] For his theoretical and experimental work on foundations and applications of quantum physics, in particular: quantum non-locality, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. With sources of single and entangled photons at telecommunication wavelength, he implemented these quantum effects on a commercial optical fiber network in the 10-100km range.

[2] For discoveries of stronger-than-quantum no-signaling correlations, and the application of quantum theory to thermodynamics.

[3] For fundamental and pioneering experimental advances in entangling superconducting qubits and microwave photons, and their application to quantum information processing.

[4] For his pioneering research on quantum information processing with trapped ions, in particular, for the recent demonstrations of analog and digital quantum simulators and quantum logic gates on a topologically encoded qubit.

[5] For their groups' experiments simultaneously closing the detection and locality loopholes in a violation of Bell's inequalities.

[6] Christian Flatz, Stefan Hohenwarter: Bell Prize for quantum physicist Peter Zoller. In: uibk.ac.at. University of Innsbruck , August 27, 2019, accessed on August 29, 2019 .