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.

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(s)	1,000,000 ¥ (150,000$)
First award	2018
Website	Micius 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	United States
2021		John Clarke	United States	"For their leading roles in pioneering superconducting quantum circuits and qubits."	Experimental	[4]
		Michel H. Devoret	France
		Yasunobu Nakamura	Japan
2022		Not awarded
2023		Nicolas Gisin	Switzerland	"For their important contributions in early quantum key distribution experiments using optical fibers."	Experimental	[5]
		John Rarity	United Kingdom