From MPQTheory
Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac, awarded by the BBVA Foundation
The Basic Sciences award in this inaugural edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards has been shared by physicists Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller, “for their fundamental work on quantum information science”, in the words of the jury chaired by Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Prize in Physics. Cirac and Zoller’s research is opening up vital new avenues for the development of quantum computers, immensely more powerful than those we know today.
Full text by Fundación BBVA
