Nobel Prize in Physics for Aspect, Clauser and Zeilinger for opening the way to quantum information

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel

to three researchers in the field of quantum mechanics:

,

and

.

The prize has been awarded for "state-of-the-art experiments with

, in which two particles behave as a single unit even when separated".

The results, according to the Nobel Committee, "have cleared the way for

."

Alain Aspect

works at the Paris-Saclay University and the École Polytechnique de Palaiseau, in France.

runs his own research center, Clauser & Assoc, in Walnut Creek, California.

Finally,

research at the University of Vienna.

Quantum entanglement is a strange property of matter predicted in 1935 by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen.

The scientists who have received the Nobel today have managed to take this "

", according to the Nobel Committee.

Each full Nobel prize is accompanied this year by an amount of 10 million Swedish crowns, or about

at current exchange rates.

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