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Ignacio Cirac Wins Catalan Culture Award

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GARCHING, Germany, April 23, 2010 — Professor Ignacio Cirac, director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and leader of the Theory Division, has been honored with the National Culture Award from Catalonia (Premi Nacional de Pensament i Cultura Científica). Born in the Catalan city of Manresa, Cirac received this distinction for "his pioneering work on quantum information processing, which will lead to performing calculations that cannot be solved with traditional methods." Cirac’s theory group works on quantum computation and also develops theoretical tools to describe many-body quantum...Read full article

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    Published: April 2010
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    quantum mechanics
    The science of all complex elements of atomic and molecular spectra, and the interaction of radiation and matter.
    AmericasBasic ScienceBenjamin Franklin MedalBusinessCatalan Culture AwardCommunicationsentanglementEuropeGermanyIgnacio CiracInternational Quantum Communication AwardLeopold Franzens University InnsbruckMax Planck Institute of Quantum OpticsNational Culture Award from CataloniaOpticsPremi Nacional de Pensament i Cultura Científicaquantum computingQuantum Electronics Prizequantum information processingquantum mechanicsquantum systemsRoyal Spanish Prince of Asturias PrizesuperconductivityUniversidad Complutense de MadridUniversidad de Castilla-La Mancha

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