Quantum experiments with entangled photons win the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics

Physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger laid the groundwork for quantum technology

illustration of a two entangled particles

Experiments on a bizarre feature of quantum physics known as entanglement (illustrated here as two objects entangled into one) have netted the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics. When two particles are entangled, what happens to one determines what happens to the other — even if the particles are far apart.

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Tests of quantum weirdness and its potential real-world applications have been recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics.