{"id":9388,"date":"2022-10-05T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T07:31:40","slug":"nobel-prize-in-physics-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nobel-prize-in-physics-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Physics 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Two of the laureates\u2014John Clauser and Alain Aspect\u2014worked on firming up the concept of\u00a0<strong>quantum entanglement<\/strong>\u00a0and developing more complex experiments that demonstrated this phenomenon, especially creating, processing and measuring what are called\u00a0<strong>Bell pairs.<\/strong>\u00a0The third laureate, Anton Zeilinger, has been chosen for his\u00a0<strong>innovative use of entanglement and Bell pairs both in research and application such as quantum cryptography.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Significance:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Quantum information science has a broad range of potential implications in areas such as secure information transfer, quantum computing and sensing technology.<\/li>\n<li>One of the most mature applications of quantum technology is\u00a0<strong>quantum cryptography<\/strong>, which takes advantage of the fact that changes made to one particle in an entangled system affect the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Quantum entanglement<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a phenomenon by which a pair of particles, say photons, are allowed to exist in a shared state where they have complementary properties, such that by measuring the properties of one particle, you automatically know the properties of the other particle. This is true regardless of how far apart the two particles are transported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/nobel-prize-for-experiments-that-demystify-spooky-action-at-a-distance\/article65970297.ece?homepage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}