Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
The 2022 physics laureates
- Alain Aspect
- Université Paris-Saclay and
- École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- John F. Clauser
- J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Anton Zeilinger
- University of Vienna, Austria
“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
How entanglement has become a powerful tool
- Using groundbreaking experiments, Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have demonstrated the potential to investigate and control particles that are in entangled states. What happens to one particle in an entangled pair determines what happens to the other, even if they are really too far apart to affect each other. The laureates’ development of experimental tools has laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology.