The Nobel Prize in Physics to Anton Zeilinger, Mapelli (Unipd): “Consolidated collaboration with him”
A.D Anton Zeilingertogether with colleagues Alain I wait And John F. Clauserthe prize was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 2022who have committed the Nobel Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has motivated “for their experiments with the entanglement of photons, which have approved the violation of the rules relating to information science related to quantum”.
Zeilinger, a 77-year-old Austrian, currently a professor at the University of Vienna, in the past had the opportunity to work strictly with theUniversity of Paduaas the rector remembers Daniela Mapelli: “The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, with whom we have a consolidated collaboration, rewards their pioneering experiments that have paved the way for quantum information science and the quantum technology revolution currently in progress and also makes the University of Padua happy – he says -. Our University, in fact, is at the forefront of these research ambitions, with recent investments in the QTECH University center, coordinated by Professor Paolo Villoresi, who also boasts an important collaboration with the Department of Information Engineering, and in the World Class Research Infrastructure on the quantum computer, coordinated by Professor Simone Montangero of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The University also participates, with a leading role, in the Quantum Computing Spoke of the National Center on High Performance Computing of the PNRR ».
As part of a research project coordinated by the professor Paolo Villoresi, in fact, the latter in 2003 went to Vienna to ask Professor Zeilinger for collaboration on the appearance of single photon detectors, who accepted and indicated the team of his collaborators to participate in the project, which demonstrated the first exchange of how many in the space and was released in 2008, becoming the first achievement in the field. The result was the study “Experimental verification of the feasibility of a quantum channel between space and Earth” published in the journal “New Journal of Physics”.
«The very ambitious goal was to demonstrate the exchange of single quanta of light from a satellite to the ground – explains the professor Paolo Villoresi, director of the research center on quantum technologies of the University and coordinator of the project -. The project set itself an objective that at the time had no experimental precedents: to use space as a channel for quantum communications ».
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