Pan Jianwei | |
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潘建伟 | |
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| Born | (1970-03-11)11 March 1970 (age 55) |
| Title | Professor and Executive Vice President of theUniversity of Science and Technology of China Vice Chairman ofJiusan Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Alma mater | USTC University of Vienna |
| Known for | Multi-photon quantum entanglement Free-spacequantum teleportation Quantum computer |
| Awards | Erich Schmid Prize (2003)[1] Emmy Noether Research Award (2004) Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (2004)[1] Fresnel Prize (2005)[1] Chinese Young Scientist Prize (2006)[1] QCMC Quantum Communication Award (2012)[2] Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year[3] 2015State Natural Science Award (First Class)[4] 2017Future Science Prize 2018 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics Micius Quantum Prize (2019) ZEISS Research Award (2020) |
| Fields | Quantum mechanics |
| Institutions | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Doctoral advisor | Anton Zeilinger |
Pan Jianwei (Chinese:潘建伟;pinyin:Pān Jiànwěi; born 11 March 1970) is a Chinese academic administrator and quantum physicist. He is auniversity administrator and professor of physics at theUniversity of Science and Technology of China. Pan is known for his work in the field ofquantum entanglement,quantum information andquantum computers. In 2017, he was named one ofNature's 10, which labelled him "Father of Quantum".[5] He is an academician of theChinese Academy of Sciences and theWorld Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of theUniversity of Science and Technology of China.[6] He also serves as one of the Vice Chairman ofJiusan Society.[7]
Pan was born inDongyang,Jinhua,Zhejiang province in 1970. In 1987, he entered theUniversity of Science and Technology of China (USTC), from which he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He received his PhD from theUniversity of Vienna in Austria, where he studied and worked in the group led by Nobel prize winning physicistAnton Zeilinger.[1]
Pan's team demonstrated five-photon entanglement in 2004.[8] Under his leadership, the world's first quantum satellite launched successfully in August 2016 as part of theQuantum Experiments at Space Scale, a Chinese research project.[9][10] In June 2017, Pan's team used their quantum satellite to demonstrate entanglement with satellite-to-ground total summed lengths between 1600km and 2400km and entanglement distribution over 1200km between receiver stations.[11]
In 2021, Pan led a team which built quantum computers. One of the devices, named "Zuchongzhi 2.1", was claimed to be one million times faster than its nearest competitor, Google'sSycamore.[12]
Pan was elected to theChinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 at the age of 41, making him one of the youngestCAS academicians.[13] He was then elected to the World Academy of Sciences in 2012 and won the International Quantum Communication Award in the same year.[14]
In April 2014, he was appointed Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China.
His team's work on double quantum-teleportation was selected as thePhysics World "Top Breakthrough of the Year" in 2015.[3] His team, whose members include Peng Chengzhi,Chen Yu'ao, Lu Chaoyang, and Chen Zengbing, won theState Natural Science Award (First Class) in 2015.[4]
In 2017, the journalNature named Pan, along with such figures asAnn Olivarius andScott Pruitt, one of the top 10 people who made "a significant impact in science either for good or for bad", with the label "Father of Quantum" given to Pan.[5] The same year he won theFuture Science Prize.[15]
Pan was included inTime magazine's100 Most Influential People of 2018.[16] The same year, he became a laureate of theAsian Scientist 100 by theAsian Scientist.[17]
In 2019, Pan was appointed as lead editor ofPhysical Review Research.[18] He also receivedThe Optical Society'sR. W. Wood Prize.[19]
In 2020, Pan received the ZEISS Research Award.[20]
