When he began his research, Zeilinger said the experiments were 'completely philosophical without any possible use or application.' 'It is not like in the Star Trek films (where one is) transporting something, certainly not the person, over some distance,' he said. He added that this only works for tiny particles. 'Using entanglement you can transfer all the information which is carried by an object over to some other place where the object is, so to speak, reconstituted,' said Zeilinger.
The Nobel committee said Clauser, 79, developed quantum theories first put forward in the 1960s into a practical experiment.Īspect, 75, was able to close a loophole in those theories, while Zeilinger demonstrated a phenomenon called quantum teleportation that effectively allows information to be transmitted over distances. 'But it's a very positive shock,' he added. Speaking by phone at a news conference after the announcement, Zeilinger said he was 'still kind of shocked' at hearing he had received the award. The same trio won the Wolf Prize together in 2010. 'There is now a large field of research that includes quantum computers, quantum networks and secure quantum encrypted communication,' it said in a statement.įrenchman Aspect, 75, is affiliated to the Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, while American Clauser, 79, runs his own company in California. Zeilinger, 77, is attached to the University of Vienna. The 10 most recent Nobel Physics Prize winners are:Ģ021: Syukuro Manabe (US-Japan) and Klaus Hasselmann (Germany) for climate models, and Giorgio Parisi (Italy) for work on the theory of disordered materials and random processes.Ģ020: Roger Penrose (Britain), Reinhard Genzel (Germany) and Andrea Ghez (US) for their research into black holes.Ģ019: James Peebles (Canada-US) for discoveries explaining the universe's evolution after the Big Bang, and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Switzerland) for the first discovery of an exoplanet.Ģ018: Arthur Ashkin (US), Gerard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (Canada) for inventions in the laser field used for advanced precision instruments in corrective eye surgery and industry.Ģ017: Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss (US) for the discovery of gravitational waves, a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity.Ģ016: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz (Britain) for their study of strange phenomena in unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films.Ģ015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for their work on neutrinos.Ģ014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshi Amano (Japan) and Shuji Nakamura (US) for their work on LED lamps.Ģ013: Peter Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium) for their work on the so-called Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that gives mass to other particles.Ģ012: Serge Haroche (France) and David Wineland (US) for experimental methods used to measure and manipulate quantum systems. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the laureates enabled further fundamental research and also potentially cleared the way for new practical technology. The awards were given for 'experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science', the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
The trio's experiments proved that connections between quantum particles were not down to 'hidden variables' - or what German physicist Albert Einstein famously called 'spooky action at a distance' - but a genuine association in which manipulating one quantum object affects another far away. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their research into quantum mechanics - the science that describes nature at the smallest scales.Īlain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger received the honour for their experiments with entangled photons - in which particles of light become inextricably linked - opening the door to further work on supercomputers and encrypted communication.
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