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UrduProfessor Aspect, a Senior Fellow at the HKIAS, shared the Prize with John F. Clauser (J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, United States) and Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna, Austria), “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”, which paved the way for quantum technology.
The ground-breaking discovery showed the capacity of two photons to behave as a single quantum system, even at a distance from each other, as long as they had interacted in the past. This was a major breakthrough that paved the way for the new field of quantum technology, which today is revolutionising the processing and communication of information.
Professor Aspect is a member of the HKIAS Senior Fellows. In 2018, he was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science by CityU in recognition of his significant contributions to education and society and has been a Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics. Professor Aspect has visited CityU numerous times. The short course on Laser Science that he organized in the same year drew a full house of students and faculty members from Hong Kong and nearby regions in mainland China.
“Professor Aspect’s award-winning work underscores the core values that HKIAS embraces, i.e., to pursue curiosity-driven research based on free and deep thinking,” said Professor Xun-Li Wang, Executive Director of HKIAS and Chair Professor of the Department of Physics of CityU. “We could not be happier when the Nobel announcement came out,” Professor Wang added.
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About Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study
Initiated by President Way Kuo, the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) at CityU, launched on 22 November 2015, gathers some of the best minds in science to pursue curiosity-driven ideas and studies, and to conduct unfettered research based on free and deep thinking. The ultimate goals for HKIAS are to seek truth, to advance knowledge and to better humanity.
