Premio Breakthrough 2012: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Alan Guth

   Física

   Invention of inflationary cosmology, and for contributions to the theory for the generation of cosmological density fluctuations arising from quantum fluctuations

2. Alexei Kitaev

   Física

   For robust quantum memories and fault-tolerant quantum computation using topological quantum phases with anyons and unpaired Majorana modes; topological quantum computing.

3. Andrei Linde

   Física

   For development of inflationary cosmology, including the theory of new inflation, eternal chaotic inflation and the theory of inflationary multiverse, and for contributing to the development of vacuum stabilization mechanisms in string theory.

4. Ashoke Sen

   Física

   Opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory.

5. Edward Witten

   Física

   For applications of topology to physics, non-perturbative duality symmetries, models of particle physics derived from string theory, dark matter detection, and the twistor-string approach to particle scattering amplitudes, as well as numerous applications of quantum field theory to mathematics.

6. Juan Maldacena

   Física

   Contributions to gauge/gravity duality, relating gravitational physics in a spacetime and quantum field theory on the boundary of the spacetime

7. Maxim Kontsevich

   Física

   Numerous contributions including development of homological mirror symmetry, and the study of wall-crossing phenomena.

8. Nathan Seiberg

   Física

   Contributions to our understanding of quantum field theory and string theory.

9. Nima Arkani-Hamed

   Física

   Original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics