The recipients of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics are John
Clauser, Anton Zeilinger, and Alain Aspect. For "experiments with
entangled photons, demonstrating the breach of Bell inequalities, and
pioneering quantum information science," the prize was presented. The
victors will each get a portion of the reward, which is worth 10 million
Swedish kronor (or around 896,000 US dollars).
The three physicists were honored for their contributions to
the testing of quantum entanglement, which is one of the key ideas in quantum
mechanics. It is possible for individual particles to get coupled in a way that
looks to (but really doesn't) violate the laws of physics in this unique
quantum mechanical state.
Their work set the groundwork for what is now known as
quantum information theory, which incorporates quantum teleportation and
encryption as well as the theory that will eventually power quantum computers.
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