The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022: Entangled states – from theory to technology

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to Alain Aspect, Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, John F. Clauser, J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USA and Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, Austria

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to researchers in quantum mechanics, a field that both explains how the world works on a microscopic scale and has a practical application.
 

Very exciting and important prize

- It's very exciting because it has really advanced the way people look at the world and quantum mechanics," says Ingemar Bengtsson, professor at Fysikum, Stockholm University, about the prize.

The prize is important because people have been trying to understand how quantum mechanics works for a long time, he says. Now the experiments show that Bell's theory from the 1960s about how different quantum mechanics is from classical physics, was correct.

- I want to stress that it has a strong philosophical aspect; how you look at the world, says Ingemar Bengtsson.

Text from an article in Ny Teknik magazine.

Read more about the Nobel Prize in Physics from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences