John Stewart Bell Prize

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John Stewart Bell Prize
Awarded forSignificant contributions to quantum mechanics
Country Canada
Presented byCentre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control
First award2009;17 years ago (2009)
Website cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca/bell-prize

The John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications (short form: Bell Prize) was established in 2009, funded and managed by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) in the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science. [1] Named after John Stewart Bell (the physicist behind Bell's theorem, a theorem whose experimental vindication led to a Nobel Prize), it is generally awarded every second year, for significant contributions relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to the applications of these principles – this covers, but is not limited to, quantum information theory, quantum computation, quantum foundations, quantum cryptography and quantum control. [2] The selection committee has included Gilles Brassard, Peter Zoller, Alain Aspect, John Preskill, and Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, in addition to previous winners Sandu Popescu, Michel Devoret and Nicolas Gisin. [3]

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Awarded prizes

YearMedalists [4] AffiliationReason
2009 Nicolas Gisin Professor of Physics at the Université de Genève For his theoretical and experimental work on quantum nonlocality, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. [5]
2011 Sandu Popescu Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol, UKFor discoveries of stronger-than-quantum no-signaling correlations, and the application of quantum theory to thermodynamics. [6]
2013 Michel Devoret and Robert J. Schoelkopf Professors of Applied Physics at Yale University, USAFor their work on entangling superconducting qubits and microwave photons, and their application to quantum information processing. [7]
2015 Rainer Blatt Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Innsbruck, and director of Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Innsbruck, AustriaFor his works on quantum information processing with trapped ions. [8]
2017 Ronald Hanson, Sae Woo Nam, and Anton Zeilinger Delft University of Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Vienna respectivelyFor "their groups’ experiments simultaneously closing the detection and locality loopholes in a violation of Bell's Inequalities". [9]
2019 Juan Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and University of Innsbruck with IQOQI respectivelyFor "groundbreaking proposals in quantum optics and atomic physics on how to engineer quantum systems . . . and using Projected Entangled Pair States for the theoretical study of quantum many body systems". [10]
2021 John M. Martinis University of California, Santa Barbara For innovations in designing and controlling superconducting devices [11]
2024 John Preskill Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology For "developments at the interface of efficient learning and processing of quantum information in quantum computation, and following upon long standing intellectual leadership in near-term quantum computing." [12]
2026 Antoine Browaeys, Mikhail Lukin, and Mark Saffman CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay, Harvard University, and University of Wisconsin - Madison, respectivelyFor "pioneering contributions to quantum simulation and quantum computing with neutral atoms in optical tweezer arrays, including the development of large-scale programmable arrays for scalable quantum computation" [13]


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References

  1. ↑ "John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications". University of Toronto Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC). Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Award Rules". Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Selection Committee". cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "Bell Prize Winners". cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "2009 John Stewart Bell Prize". Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "2011 John Stewart Bell Prize". Archived from the original on 28 November 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  7. ↑ Eric Gershon (1 August 2013). "For two Yale quantum physicists, an honor from the north". Yale News. Yale University . Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Physiker Rainer Blatt erhält Forschungspreis" [Physicist Rainer Blatt receives research prize] (in German). Österreichischer Rundfunk. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Ronald Hanson, Sae-Woo Nam and Anton Zeilinger awarded the Fifth Bell Prize". University of Toronto. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller awarded the sixth Bell Prize". cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  11. ↑ "John Martinis awarded the seventh Bell Prize". cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  12. ↑ "Professor John Preskill awarded 8th Bell Prize". cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  13. ↑ "Browaeys, Lukin, and Saffman awarded the 9th Bell Prize". cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
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