NOBEL. In February, two Nobel Laureates in physics are visiting Gothenburg and give lectures. The laureate of 2023 Anne L’Hullier cancelled her planned lecture in December and will now visit Runan at Chalmers University of Technology, February 26th. Furthermore will Alain Aspect, the Laureate in Physics from 2022, give a lecture February 7th at Wallenberg Conference Centre, Medicinareberget. The University of Gothenburg arrange these lectures in collaboration with Chalmers.
Everyone is welcome to these lectures, that will be given in English.
Please register to get your seats:
- Lecture with Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, 7 February 2024
- Lecture with Nobel laureate Anne L’Hullier, 26 February 2024
Nobel Foundation’s website writes about the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022:
“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
Alain Aspect, and two other laureates “have each conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information.
The ineffable effects of quantum mechanics are starting to find applications. There is now a large field of research that includes quantum computers, quantum networks and secure quantum encrypted communication.”
The Nobel Prize of 2023
On the Nobel Foundation’s website, you can read about Anne L’Huillier and the other two laureates of 2023:
“The laureates’ experiments have produced pulses of light so short that they are measured in attoseconds, thus demonstrating that these pulses can be used to provide images of processes inside atoms and molecules.
In 1987, Anne L’Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light arose when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas. Each overtone is a light wave with a given number of cycles for each cycle in the laser light. They are caused by the laser light interacting with atoms in the gas; it gives some electrons extra energy that is then emitted as light. Anne L’Huillier has continued to explore this phenomenon, laying the ground for subsequent breakthroughs.”
Read more about the laureates in these press releases:
