For topological quantum computation, in which quantum information is encoded and protected using topological properties of many-body systems
Alexei Y. Kitaev
Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology and Institute of Quantum Information and Matter, Pasadena, CA
For wide-ranging research on network systems including work on community structure and random graph models
Mark E. J. Newman
Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
For ground-breaking discoveries in quantum-chromodynamics and in the study of complex disordered systems
Giorgio Parisi
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome