Pan Jianwei

Pan Jianwei (Chinese: 潘建伟; pinyin: Pān Jiànwěi; born 3 March 1970) is a Chinese quantum physicist known for his work in the field of quantum entanglement. He has been called the "father of quantum"[5] and was named as one of Nature's 10 in 2017. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences, and serves as Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China.

Pan Jianwei
Born (1970-03-03) 3 March 1970
Dongyang, Zhejiang, China
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China
University of Vienna
Known forMulti-photon quantum entanglement
Free-space quantum teleportation
AwardsErich 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]
2015 State Natural Science Award (First Class)[4]
2018 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum entanglement
InstitutionsUniversity of Science and Technology of China
Doctoral advisorAnton Zeilinger
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Pan.

Early life and education

Pan was born in Dongyang, Zhejiang, China, in 1970. In 1987, he entered the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), from which he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna in Austria, where he worked in the group of Anton Zeilinger.[1]

Contributions

Pan's team demonstrated five-photon entanglement in 2004.[6] Under his leadership, the world's first quantum satellite launched successfully in August 2016 as part of the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale, an international research project.[7][8] 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 1200 km between receiver stations.[9]

Awards and recognition

He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and The World Academy of Sciences in 2012. He also won the International Quantum Communication Award in 2012.[10] 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 the Physics World Top Breakthrough of the Year in 2015.[3] His team, including Peng Chengzhi, Chen Yu'ao, Lu Chaoyang, and Chen Zengbing, won the State Natural Science Award (First Class) in 2015.[4] In 2017, the journal Nature named Pan Jianwei among the top 10 people who mattered in the year, with the label "father of quantum".[5]

In 2019, Pan was appointed as lead editor of Physical Review Research.[11]

References
  1. "Jian-Wei Pan". University of Science and Technology of China. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  2. "Quantum Communication Award 2012". 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  3. "Double quantum-teleportation milestone is Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year - physicsworld.com". physicsworld.com. 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  4. "The 2015 State Nature Science First Class Award honors USTC team's work". en.hfnl.ustc.edu.cn. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  5. Elizabeth Gibney. "Nature's 10". Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  6. Zhao Z, Chen YA, Zhang AN, Yang T, Briegel HJ, Pan JW (July 2004). "Experimental demonstration of five-photon entanglement and open-destination teleportation". Nature. 430 (6995): 54–8. arXiv:quant-ph/0402096. Bibcode:2004Natur.430...54Z. doi:10.1038/nature02643. PMID 15229594.
  7. Nomaan Merchant (2016-08-16). "China's launch of quantum satellite major step in space race". Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  8. Aron, Jacob (2016-08-16). "China launches world's first quantum communications satellite". Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  9. J. Yin, Y. Cao, Y.- H. Li, S.- K. Liao, L. Zhang, J.- G. Ren, W.- Q. Cai, W.- Y. Liu, B. Li, H. Dai, G.- B. Li, Q.- M. Lu, Y.- H. Gong, Y. Xu, S.- L. Li, F.- Z. Li, Y.- Y. Yin, Z.- Q. Jiang, M. Li, J.- J. Jia, G. Ren, D. He, Y.- L. Zhou, X.- X. Zhang, N. Wang, X. Chang, Z.- C. Zhu, N.- L. Liu, Y.- Ao. Chen, C.- Y. Lu, R. Shu, C.- Z. Peng, J.- Y. Wang, and J.- W. Pan "Satellite-based entanglement distribution over 1200 kilometers", Science, 356, 6343, 1140-1144, (2017) doi:10.1126/science.aan3211
  10. Mason Coultrane (2015-02-06). "Quantum Communication Takes Another Leap Between Beijing and Shanghai". Yibada. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  11. "Jian-Wei Pan Appointed Lead Editor of Physical Review Research". American Physical Society. 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
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