Alexei Kitaev

Russian-American physicist

Follow Alexei Kitaev on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!

2024 Alexei Kitaev is awarded the Basic Science Lifetime Award by the International Congress of Basic Science in recognition of his groundbreaking work in quantum computing.
2024 Alexei Kitaev receives the Henri Poincaré Prize from the International Association of Mathematical Physics for his contributions to quantum computing, quantum many-body systems, and quantum information.
February 2022 Signed an open letter by Breakthrough Prize laureates condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, demonstrating his political stance against the military conflict.
2021 Began working with Google Quantum AI on experimental efforts to realize fault-tolerant quantum computation, extensively utilizing the toric code.
2021 Elected into the National Academy of Sciences

This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Alexei Kitaev, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

See Also