Quantum entangled physics Nobel Prize

Kwantumverstrengeling

The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for research on quantum entanglement of photons, the Nobel Prize Committee reports.

Specifically, the Frenchman, American and Austrian won “for experiments on entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering work in quantum information science”. Those Bell inequalities originated with John Stewart Bell, who devised the mathematical inequality. Bell argued that if there are so-called hidden variables, then the correlation between the results of a large number of measurements would never exceed a certain value. But quantum mechanics predicted that a given experiment violates that inequality.

comp-tab-phone2

Want to read more?
Create a free account today!

  • Gain access to all our content on chemistry, life sciences and process technology;
  • Get our weekly newsletter so you never miss a story.

As a member of the KNCV, KVCV, NBV, or NVBMB you have unlimited access. Log in here.