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Alain Aspect, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
Alain Aspect, a research professor emeritus at the CNRS, professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School/Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, and...
Conference: Quantum Physics from Foundations to Innovations: Honouring Alain Aspect
On Thursday 8 June 2023, the Institut d’Optique Graduate School (IOGS) is organising, with the support of Université Paris-Saclay, a conference in honour of the career of Alain Aspect, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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The conference will focus on research areas which Alain Aspect has significantly contributed to, in addition to the impact of his work on technological developments.
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Alain Aspect, 2022 Nobel prize in Physics
Alain Aspect is a Professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School/Université Paris-Saclay, Affiliate Professor at ENS Paris-Saclay, Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Emeritus Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and works at the Charles Fabry Laboratory (LCF – Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 4 October 2022 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He shares the award with John F. Clauser of the United States and Anton Zeilinger of Austria for their pioneering research on quantum entanglement, which has paved the way for quantum technology.
Alain Aspect distinguished himself in 1982 by clearly revealing the fundamental quantum property of quantum entanglement. By precisely studying a controlled light source, he irrefutably established the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, and provided an experimental answer to the EPR paradox proposed fifty years earlier by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen. He also demonstrated the violation of Bell inequalities established a few years earlier. This discovery showed the capacity of two photons to behave as a single quantum system, even at a distance from each other, as long as they had interacted in the past. This was a major breakthrough that paved the way for the new field of quantum technology, which today is revolutionising the processing and communication of information.