The groundbreaking experiments using entangled photons have earned three scientists Alain Aspect, John F Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022.
The committee that grants the Nobel prize announced the trio’s recognition via Tweet through a Tweet which read, “The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”
The release which informed their groundbreaking experiment in detail went on to read, “Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger have demonstrated the potential to investigate and control particles that are in entangled states."
BREAKING NEWS:
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 4, 2022
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. pic.twitter.com/RI4CJv6JhZ
It further read, "What happens to one particle in an entangled pair determines what happens to the other, even if they are really too far apart to affect each other. The laureates' development of experimental tools has laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology.”
Quantum teleportation uses the features of entanglement which can be brought into use to transport information, carried by the object, to another place where the object is then reconstituted.
Moreover, this can take place without knowing the information, because knowing the information would violate Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle which states that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at a time, even in theory.
The prize arguably is among the most prestigious in the scientific arena and is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($900,357).
The Nobel Prize is given according to the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel. These awards are given in the fields of scientific development, literature, and societal harmony since 1901. Nobel Prizes in the field of economics were given later.