Awards & Winners

Alexei Kitaev

Alexei Kitaev is a Russian–American professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is best known for introducing the quantum phase estimation algorithm and the concept of the topological quantum computer while working at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. For this work, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. He is also known for introducing the complexity class QMA and showing that some local Hamiltonian problems are QMA-complete. Kitaev was educated in Russia, receiving an M.Sc from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a Ph.D from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He served previously as a researcher at Microsoft Research, a research associate at the Landau Institute and a professor at the California Institute of Technology.

Awards by Alexei Kitaev

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alexei Kitaev.

2012


Fundamental Physics Prize
(For the theoretical idea of implementing robust quantum memories and fault-tolerant quantum computation using topological quantum phases with anyons and unpaired Majorana modes.)