# 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.
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 | Laureate | Country | Rationale | Category |
| 2018 | David Deutsch | United Kingdom Israel | "For his seminal conceptual contributions on quantum Turing machine and Quantum algorithm" | Theory |
| 2018 | Peter Shor | United States | "For his groundbreaking theoretical work on factoring algorithm and quantum error correction" | Theory |
| 2018 | 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" | Theory |
| 2018 | Ignacio Cirac | Spain | "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" | Theory |
| 2018 | 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 |
| 2018 | David Wineland | United States | "For his groundbreaking experiments that opened the way to quantum computing and quantum metrology with trapped ions" | Experimental |
| 2019 | Stephen Wiesner | Israel | "For his original conceptual idea on conjugate coding that inspired the discovery of practical quantum cryptography" | Theory |
| 2019 | Charles H. Bennett | United States | "For their inventions of quantum key distribution, quantum teleportation, and entanglement purification" | Theory |
| 2019 | Gilles Brassard | Canada | "For their inventions of quantum key distribution, quantum teleportation, and entanglement purification" | Theory |
| 2019 | Artur Ekert | Poland United Kingdom | "For his inventions of entanglement-based quantum key distribution, entanglement swapping, and entanglement purification" | Theory |
| 2019 | 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 |
| 2019 | Anton Zeilinger | Austria | "For their groundbreaking experiments in multi-photon interferometry and free-space quantum transmission that enabled practically secure and large-scale quantum communications" | Experimental |
| 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 |
| 2020 | 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 |
| 2020 | Jun Ye | United States | "For their groundbreaking achievements in precision quantum measurements, in particular for the development of extremely stable and accurate optical atomic clocks." | Experimental |
| 2021 | John Clarke | United States | "For their leading roles in pioneering superconducting quantum circuits and qubits." | Experimental |
| 2021 | Michel H. Devoret | France | "For their leading roles in pioneering superconducting quantum circuits and qubits." | Experimental |
| 2021 | Yasunobu Nakamura | Japan | "For their leading roles in pioneering superconducting quantum circuits and qubits." | Experimental |
| 2022 | Not awarded | | | |
| 2023 | Nicolas Gisin | Switzerland | "For their important contributions in early quantum key distribution experiments using optical fibers." | Experimental |
| 2023 | John Rarity | United Kingdom | "For their important contributions in early quantum key distribution experiments using optical fibers." | Experimental |