A Nobel prize for Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, CNRS, ENS, Collège de France, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

^* e-mail : sylvain.gigan@lkb.ens.fr

Abstract

The Nobel committee announced on October 4^th that Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel prize “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science” [1]. In this article, we want to put the Nobel Prize in perspective, and replace the three laureates’ contribution in their historical context.