* Alain Aspect - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2022 (3 books, 160 papers)

ALAIN ASPECT (b. 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement. He was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science."

Their independent works explored the foundations of quantum mechanics, the paradoxical rules that govern behavior in the subatomic world. In pioneering experiments conducted over the last 50 years, they confirmed the reality of an effect that Albert Einstein had disdained as "spooky action at a distance" — namely, that measuring one of a widely separated pair of particles could instantaneously change the results of measuring the other particle, even if it was light-years away. The experiments confirmed the revolutionary character of quantum entanglement, and which experimental evidence was made possible by the theoretical works of John Bell.

The development of these experimental tools laid the foundation for a new era of quantum technology, opening the way to research in quantum information and to the development of technologies such as quantum cryptography and quantum calculation.

After his work on Bell's inequalities, Aspect turned toward studies of laser cooling of neutral atoms, and Bose–Einstein condensates.


In addition to more than 160 unlisted academic contributions, the following books are in PDF format:

* Bose-Einstein Condensates and Atom Lasers [ed.] (Kluwer, 2002)
* Introduction to Quantum Optics [with Grynberg & Fabre] (Cambridge, 2010)
* Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling [with Bardou et al.] (Cambridge, 2002)


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