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At the Among the participants there will also be former presidents, such as Lech Walęsa (Poland), Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia), and Oscar Arias Sánchez (Costa Rica). “The Holy Father encouraged the Fratelli Tutti Foundation to move forward in organizing the event that will bring together people from all over the world to promote the culture of fraternity, dialogue, and peace,” said the organizers in a statement released on June 7, the day on which Pope Francis was operated. “The Holy Father will be supported by the affection and prayers of the Meeting participants, who will gather in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday afternoon.” The In addition to the Nobel Prize winners, artists, important figures from the fields of science and culture, environmental activists, homeless people, migrants, schoolchildren and many young people – including young Russians and Ukrainians – will take part in workshops reflecting on fraternity. In the afternoon, young people will form a circle in the square, holding hands in a symbolic act of peace. During this day, St. Peter’s Square will be twinned with other squares around the world where similar events will take place: Jerusalem (Israel), Nagasaki (Japan), Bangui (Central African Republic), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Brazzaville (Congo), Lima (Peru). Planned as a celebration, the event will continue into the evening with a number of Italian artists, including tenor Andrea Bocelli. The event is financed by the Italian comp...

On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Their research laid the groundwork for ultra-secure communications and complex computing, and it demonstrated that quantum mechanics—the field that deals with the motion and interaction of the smallest particles—is fundamentally weird. The three researchers conducted experiments that showed a special state called “entanglement,” when multiple tiny particles are linked, in a sense, so that what happens to one determines what happens to the others, even when they are separated by large distances, the Nobel committee wrote in a Scientific American. Working independently, Clauser and Aspect proved this phenomenon can’t be explained by the typical laws of physics, and Zeilinger demonstrated that entanglement can “teleport” information between linked particles, Science ’s Adrian Cho reports. The laureates’ work “has basically opened up this whole field of quantum information science and technologies,” Science. John Clauser poses for a photo at his home in Walnut Creek, California, on October 4, 2022. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The experiments carried out by the Nobel prize winners were related to a debate between scientists in the 1930s over the nature of reality, writes Charlie Wood for Quanta. Albert Einstein believed that all objects have precisely defined properties, but the physicists Einstein thought there was no state of uncertainty—even if a particle’s properties, such as an el...

Share this • Share on Facebook: Anton Zeilinger – Podcast Share this content on Facebook Facebook • Tweet: Anton Zeilinger – Podcast Share this content on Twitter Twitter • Share on LinkedIn: Anton Zeilinger – Podcast Share this content on LinkedIn LinkedIn • Share via Email: Anton Zeilinger – Podcast Share this content via Email Email this page Anton Zeilinger Podcast Nobel Prize Conversations “You have to reinvent yourself every couple of years. It’s absolutely important. It’s necessary for me to make my life interesting. Life is too short.” Meet physicist Anton Zeilinger in a podcast episode where he speaks about his endless curiosity, the randomness and weirdness connected to quantum mechanics and why the number 42 is so important to him. Sailing is one of his biggest hobbies – hear him speaks about the sense of freedom that he gets when sailing. The host of this podcast is nobelprize.org’s Adam Smith, joined by Clare Brilliant. This podcast was released on 15 June, 2023. Below you find a transcript of the podcast interview. The transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Anton Zeilinger delivered his his Nobel Prize lecture on 8 December 2022. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Anna Svanberg MUSIC Anton Zeilinger: “When journalists asked me even in the 1990s what this is good for, my answer always was, I can tell you very honestly and proudly, this is good for nothing. I do it for curio...

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. Nicolle R. Fuller/NSF Tests of quantum weirdness and its potential real-world applications have been recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics. At some level we are all subject to quantum rules that even Albert Einstein struggled to come to terms with. For the most part, these rules play out behind the scenes in transistors that make up computer chips, lasers and even in the chemistry of atoms and molecules in materials all around us. Applications that stem from this year’s Nobel Prize take advantage of quantum features at larger scales. They include absolutely secure communications and quantum computers that may eventually solve problems that no conceivable conventional computer could complete in the lifetime of the universe. This year’s prize is shared among three physicists. Alain Aspect and John Clauser confirmed that the rules of quantum mechanics, as weird and difficult to believe as they are, really do rule the world, while Anton Zeilinger has taken advantage of strange quantum behavior to develop rudimentary applications that no conventional technology can match. Each laureate will take home a third of the prize money, which totals 10 million Swedish kronor, wort...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments in quantum mechanics that laid the groundwork for rapidly-developing new applications in computing and cryptography. "Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said of the laureates -- Aspect, who is French, Clauser, an American and Zeilinger, an Austrian. The scientists all conducted experiments into quantum entanglement, where two particles are linked regardless of the space between them, a field that unsettled Albert Einstein himself, who once referred to it in a letter as "spooky action at a distance". "I'm very happy ... I first started this work back in 1969 and I'm happy to still be alive to be able get the prize," Clauser, 79, told Reuters by phone from his home in Walnut Creek, California. Clauser, who worked at institutions such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, during his career, said he had witnessed his initial work snowball into much larger experiments. China's Micius satellite, part of a quantum physics research project, was constructed in part on his findings, he said. "The configuration of the satellite and the ground station is almost identical to my original experiment. Mine was about 30 feet long, theirs is thousands of kilometers for quantum communication." Asked to explain his work i...

Three scientists share Physics Nobel for quantum mechanics John Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger are being awarded Physics Nobel for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. October 04, 2022 03:20 pm | Updated October 05, 2022 09:48 am IST The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science,” the academy said. The 2022 physics laureates’ development of experimental tools has laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology. Being able to manipulate and manage quantum states and all their layers of properties gives us access to tools with unexpected potential. 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 Nobel Prize laureate John Clauser built an apparatus that emitted two entangled photons at a time, each towards a filter that tested their polarisation. The result was a clear violation of a Bell inequality and agreed with the predictions of quantum mechanics. Alain Aspect – awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics – developed a setup to close an important loophole. He was able to switch the measurement settings after an entang...

Share this • Share on Facebook: Popular information Share this content on Facebook Facebook • Tweet: Popular information Share this content on Twitter Twitter • Share on LinkedIn: Popular information Share this content on LinkedIn LinkedIn • Share via Email: Popular information Share this content via Email Email this page Popular information How entanglement has become a powerful tool (pdf) Så blev sammanflätning ett kraftfullt verktyg (pdf) The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 Using groundbreaking experiments, Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have demonstrated the potential to investigate and control particles that are in entangled states. What happens to one particle in an entangled pair determines what happens to the other, even if they are really too far apart to affect each other. The laureates’ development of experimental tools has laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology. How entanglement has become a powerful tool 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. Many applications rest upon how quantum mechanics allow two or more particles to exist in a shared state, regardless of how far apart they are. This is called entanglement, and has been one of the most deba...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to France’s Alain Aspect, an expert on On Tuesday (Oct. 4), the prestigious award went to the three “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” The three took forward John Stewart Bell’s work, which attempted to answer questions Dec. 10, 1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded. There were five categories: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace 1968: Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, makes a donation to the Nobel Foundation on its 300th anniversary to establish the Prize in Economic Sciences “It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration whatever shall be given to the nationality of the candidates, so that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be a Scandinavian or not.” - A snapshot of recent winners in Physics Person of interest: John Bardeen American physicist and engineer John Bardeen is the only laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 115: Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded since 1901 219: People who’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics since 1901 4: Women who’ve won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among them is 25: Age of the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, 3: the number of father-son duos that won the Physics Nobel Prize—but separately, unlike the Braggs. 96: Age of the oldest Nobel Prize laureate in Physics to date: 85: The US has bagged the highest number of Ph...

Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, centre, Eva Olsson, left and Thors Hans Hansson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics announce the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, from left to right on the screen, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Credit: Jonas Ekstromer /TT News Agency via AP Three scientists jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for proving that tiny particles could retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon once doubted but now being explored for potential real-world applications such as encrypting information. Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for experiments proving the "totally crazy" field of quantum entanglements to be all too real. They demonstrated that unseen particles, such as photons, can be linked, or "entangled," with each other even when they are separated by large distances. It all goes back to a feature of the universe that even baffled Albert Einstein and connects matter and light in a tangled, chaotic way. Bits of information or matter that used to be next to each other even though they are now separated have a connection or relationship—something that can conceivably help encrypt information or even teleport. A Chinese satellite ...

The Nobel committee for physics announces the winners of the 2022 physics prize during a news conference at in Stockholm on Tuesday. Photograph: Tt News Agency/Reuters The Nobel committee for physics announces the winners of the 2022 physics prize during a news conference at in Stockholm on Tuesday. Photograph: Tt News Agency/Reuters The 2022 Nobel prize in physics has been won by three researchers for their work on quantum mechanics. Alain Aspect, 75, John F Clauser, 79, and Anton Zeilinger, 77, have won the 10m Swedish kronor (£802,000) prize announced on Tuesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. All three will receive an equal share of the prize. According to the official citation for the award, the prize was given “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. The trio’s work has focused on a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, which was dubbed “spooky action at a distance” by Albert Einstein. The research is expected to play an important role in quantum computing, secure information transfer, and sensing technologies. Quantum entanglement, in a nutshell, means that the properties of one particle can be deduced by examining the properties of a second particle – even if they are separated by a large distance. As the academy pointed out, an easy way to imagine this is to think about being given one of two balls – one of which is white and the other black. If ...