Rainer Blatt Awarded the Bell Prize
For 20 years experimental physicist Rainer Blatt has worked at the University of Innsbruck focusing his work on creating the fundamental building blocks for developing quantum technologies. Together with his team he has experimentally realized the first quantum computer and has executed simple quantum computations. In coming years he wants to realize first simulations of many-body problems such as molecule structures, a task that super computers are still failing at. For his pioneering research on quantum information processing with trapped ions, in particular, for the recent demonstrations of analog and digital quantum simulators and quantum logic gates on a topologically encoded qubit Rainer Blatt has now been awarded the international John Stewart Bell Prize in Canada. “I am very excited about this international recognition of our work and it is an additional motivation to press on with our research,” says awardee Rainer Blatt. “Receiving this prize also underlines the international significance and esteem of physics research in Innsbruck.”
The milestones of Rainer Blatt’s research work are the first teleportation of atoms, the realization of the first quantum byte and the to-date biggest realized quantum register comprising 14 quantum bits. Rainer Blatt is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck and Director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck, Austria.
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