A trio of physicists, Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States and Austria’s Anton Zeilinger, on Tuesday gained the Nobel Prize for discoveries within the area of quantum mechanics which have paved the way in which for quantum computer systems and safe encrypted communication.
The official assertion from the Nobel physics committee just isn’t a straightforward learn.
The trio have been honoured “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Good work.
The committee helpfully explains entangled quantum states as “where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated,” including that the “results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information.”
“It has become increasingly clear that a new kind of quantum technology is emerging,” Anders Irback, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, stated in a press release.
‘Beam me up Scotty’
Clauser, a analysis physicist based mostly in California, and Aspect, professor on the Universite Paris-Saclay, have been singled out for his or her developments of the work of John Stewart Bell, who within the Sixties “developed the mathematical inequality that is named after him”.
Zeilinger, a professor of physics on the University of Vienna, was highlighted for his work on “quantum teleportation, which makes it possible to move a quantum state from one particle to another one at a distance,” the jury stated.
“It is not like in the ‘Star Trek’ films or whatever. Transporting something – certainly not the person – over some distance.
But the point is, using entanglement you can transfer all the information which is carried by an object over to some other place where the object is reconstituted,” Zeilinger stated.
Last 12 months, the physics prize went to Syukuro Manabe, of Japan and the United States, and German Klaus Hasselmann for his or her analysis on local weather fashions, whereas Italian Giorgio Parisi additionally gained for his work on the interaction of dysfunction and fluctuations in bodily techniques.
Only 4 ladies – Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018) and Andrea Ghez (2020) have gained the Nobel Physics Prize for the reason that award was instituted in 1901.
Marie Curie in 1911 gained the chemistry award, changing into the one particular person in historical past to win the Nobel Prize twice.
Originally revealed on RFI