ブレークスルー賞 2012: 勝者

受賞者

1. 基礎物理学

   Alan Guth

   物理学

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

2. 基礎物理学

   Alexei Kitaev

   物理学

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

3. 基礎物理学

   Andrei Linde

   物理学

   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. 基礎物理学

   Ashoke Sen

   物理学

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

5. 基礎物理学

   Edward Witten

   物理学

   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. 基礎物理学

   Juan Maldacena

   物理学

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

7. 基礎物理学

   Maxim Kontsevich

   物理学

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

8. 基礎物理学

   Nathan Seiberg

   物理学

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

9. 基礎物理学

   Nima Arkani-Hamed

   物理学

   Original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics