The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this Tuesday (4) to French Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger for their discoveries in quantum mechanics.
In a statement, the jury announced that the trio was awarded for their pioneering work on “quantum entanglement,” a mechanism by which two quantum particles are perfectly correlated regardless of the distance between them.
The Nobel Committee said each of the winners “performed groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states in which two particles behave as one unit even when separated.”
The results of the study “paved the way for new technologies based on quantum information”.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that a new kind of quantum technology is emerging,” said Anders Irback, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics.
Clauser, a research physicist working in California and Aspect, a professor at the University of Paris-Sacay, became known for their advances on the work of John Stewart Bell, who “developed the mathematical inequality that bears his name” in the 1960s.
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Zeilinger, a professor of physics at the University of Vienna, said he did not expect to receive the award.
“I was very surprised to get the phone,” Zeilinger said, speaking by phone at a press conference.
The jury said the Austrian scientist is known for his work on “quantum teleportation, which makes it possible to remotely transport a quantum state from one particle to another.”
“It’s not like the ‘Star Trek’ movies or anything,” Zeilinger said. “But the thing is, using entanglement you can transfer all the information carried by an object to another place where the object is recreated,” he explained.
The trio, who will share a total of 10 million Swedish crowns ($901,500), will receive the award from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the creative scientist Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. The reward is in your will.
Last year, the Swedish Academy awarded Japanese-American Syukuro Manabe and German Klaus Hasselmann for their work on physical models of climate change, and Italian Giorgio Parisi for their work on the interaction of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems.
Founded in 1901, only four women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics: Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018) and Andrea Ghez (2020).
source: Noticias
