Analysis for Science Librarians of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics: From Bell Inequalities to Quantum Information Science

ABSTRACT

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded equally to John F. Clauser, Anton Zeilinger, and Alain Aspect for their work that verified the absence of local hidden variables in entangled particles. This scientist profile provides an overview of the science behind this prize and analyzes each laureate’s citation patterns in the scholarly record, including top papers and noteworthy contributions.

KEYWORDS:

• Alain Aspect
• Anton Zeilinger
• Bell tests
• John F. Clauser
• Nobel Laureates
• Nobel Prize in Physics
• nonlocality
• quantum information science

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. The popular physics prize guide to the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics includes figures that show the experimental setup for each laureate’s work. All documents are available on the Nobel Prize website, https://nobelprize.org. Figures are also available in each of the papers describing the experimental results.

2. The profile under review is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BDm2SGcAAAAJ.

3. Aspect’s Google Scholar profile is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=−6d6dV4AAAAJ.

4. Zeilinger’s Google Scholar profile is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cuqIY0oAAAAJ.