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05/10/22 07:23 AM IST

Nobel Prize in Physics announced

In News 
  • The Nobel Prize for Physics 2022 is being shared by three scientists, Alain Aspect, John F Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, for their work on quantum mechanics.
About Research 
  • The three won award for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
  • The three conducted a series of experiments on something called entangled quantum states, where two separate particles behave like a single unit.
  • Their pathbreaking results will have implications in the fields of quantum computers, quantum networks and secure quantum encrypted communication. 

Significance
  • The fundamentals of quantum mechanics are not just a theoretical or philosophical issue.
  • Intense research and development are underway to utilise the special properties of individual particle systems to construct quantum computers, improve measurements, build quantum networks and establish secure quantum encrypted communication.
  • This year’s laureates have explored these entangled quantum states, and their experiments laid the foundation of the revolution currently underway in quantum technology. 
Source- The Hindu 

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