The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".
"The Nobel Laureates have opened the door to a new era of
experimentation with quantum physics by demonstrating the direct
observation of individual quantum particles without destroying them,"
commented the academy in a statement.
Haroche and Wineland have independently invented and developed methods
for measuring and manipulating individual particles through 1970s to
1990s while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature in ways that were
previously thought unattainable.
The two scientists and their research groups have managed to measure and
control very fragile quantum states which were previously thought
inaccessible for direct observation, according to the academy.
"Their ground-breaking methods have enabled this field of research to
take the very first steps towards building a new type of super fast
computer based on quantum physics" (see Quantum computer) and "change our everyday lives in
this century in the same radical way as the classical computer did in
the last century," the statement added.
This years's cash award is 8 million Swedish kronor (about 1 million U.S. dollars).
for more info visit: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2012/#
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