The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States and Anton Zeilinger of Austria “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Aspect, Clauser and Zeilinger have developed procedures for investigating particles that are in entangled states, where measuring one particle in an entangled pair instantly determines the state of the other. The laureates’ experiments laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology.
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