The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science" to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger.

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.

This year's prize winners will not be able to address us personally, but Prof. David McIntyre, a local quantum optics expert (translation: knows how to solve a two-level system and only a two-level system), will explain the wonderful physics accomplishments behind this prize.