Honorary doctor of the Department of Physics receives Nobel Prize
The Department of Physics congratulates quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger on the Nobel Prize in Physics
The honorary doctor of the Department of Physics, Anton Zeilinger, receives this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. He, along with his colleagues Alain Aspect, France, and John. F. Clauser, USA, was awarded for "Experiments with entangled photons, demonstrating the violation of Bell's inequalities and pioneering work in quantum information science".
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Zeilinger has been working on the fundamentals of quantum physics for decades, especially on the apparent and, according to Einstein, "spooky" action at a distance between entangled quantum objects. His experiments on quantum teleportation and his popular science books attracted a very great interest of the general public. His work, which he says was driven solely by curiosity and the fun of physics, is today laying the foundations for applications in quantum technology.Zeilinger was a guest at the Institute for Physics at Humboldt University several times as part of the Humboldt Research Award and is connected to Berlin through his membership in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Order Pour Le Mérite for Science and the Arts.Quantum optics and quantum technology are also key research areas at the Department of Physics. In particular, the basics of light-matter interaction and its potential for quantum information processing, quantum communication, or quantum sensors are being researched experimentally and theoretically in a large number of third-party funded projects.