SPOOKY QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three researchers for their pioneering experiments in quantum information science, a burgeoning field that could revolutionize computing, cryptography and the transfer of information via what is known as “quantum teleportation.” The three physicists are John F. Clauser, 79, of Walnut Creek, Calif., Alain Aspect, 75, of the Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique in France, and Anton Zeilinger, 77, of the University of Vienna. Quantum mechanics is nowadays a vast field of application based research in various areas including quantum computers, quantum networks and secure quantum encrypted communication. Quantum mechanics allows two or more particles to exist in what is called an 'entangled state'. The effect on one of the particles in an entangled pair determines the effect on the other particle in the same entangled pair, even when they are far apart from each other. Quantum mechanics describes the beha...