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‘Spooky’ quantum-entanglement experiments win physics Nobel

Award goes to three experimental physicists whose pioneering research has laid the groundwork for quantum information science.
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  1. Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Elizabeth Gibney

Three quantum physicists have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments with entangled photons, in which particles of light become inextricably linked. Such experiments have laid the foundations for an abundance of quantum technologies, including quantum computers and communications.

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Nature 610, 241-242 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03088-7

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  • Correction 05 October 2022: An earlier version of this articles said that Clauser first came across Bell’s work when he was a postdoctoral researcher. This has now been corrected.

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