2015 Dirac Medal and Prize: announcement

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*2015 DIRAC MEDAL AND PRIZE*

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On the occasion of the birthday of P.A.M. Dirac
we take pleasure in announcing that
the 2015 Dirac Medal and Prize

have been awarded to

*Alexei Kitaev*

*California Institute of Technology, USA*

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*Gregory W. Moore*

*Rutgers University, USA*

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*and *

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*Nicholas Read*

*Yale University, USA***

                    The 2015 Dirac Medal and Prize have been awarded to Professors Alexei Kitaev
                    (California Institute of Technology), Gregory W. Moore (Rutgers University) and
                    Nicholas Read (Yale University) for their interdisciplinary contributions which
                    introduced   concepts of conformal field theory and non-abelian quasiparticle statistics
                    in condensed matter systems and  applications of these ideas to quantum computation.
                    Their contributions have played a fundamental role in recent advances in our
                    understanding of the quantum states of matter and quantum entanglement theory.   

                      

                    The joint work of Moore and Read on Non-Abelions in the Quantum Hall Effect has
                    had an enormous impact in condensed matter physics, where it has motivated a
                    considerable amount of experimental work as well as theoretical developments
                    involving topological insulators and superconductors. It also inspired the ground-
                    breaking work of Kitaev on topological quantum computing. Kitaev's work on fault-
                    tolerant quantum computation using topological quantum phases with non-abelian
                    anyons has had profound implications in quantum information theory and has
                    triggered an intense experimental search for Majorana quasi-particle excitations.   

                      

                    The awardees have also independently made important contributions in different areas
                    of theoretical physics, including   mathematical physics, conformal field theory, string
                    theory, condensed matter physics and quantum information theory.

                      

  

8 August 2015



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