Prix Breakthrough 2012 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Physique fondamentale

   Alan Guth

   Physique

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

2. Physique fondamentale

   Alexei Kitaev

   Physique

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

3. Physique fondamentale

   Andrei Linde

   Physique

   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. Physique fondamentale

   Ashoke Sen

   Physique

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

5. Physique fondamentale

   Edward Witten

   Physique

   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. Physique fondamentale

   Juan Maldacena

   Physique

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

7. Physique fondamentale

   Maxim Kontsevich

   Physique

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

8. Physique fondamentale

   Nathan Seiberg

   Physique

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

9. Physique fondamentale

   Nima Arkani-Hamed

   Physique

   Original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics