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The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J Wineland “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”. In this article, we discuss how the experiments of the two Laureates have taught us how to study single quantum particles — using photons to study single atoms in the case of Wineland, and using atoms to study single photons in the case of Haroche. Their work may some day lead to a superfast quantum computer.
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Vasant Natarajan is at the Department of Physics of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is part of the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computing (CQIQC), set up at IISc with funding from the Department of Science & Technology. His CQIQC work involves the use of Ca+ ions trapped in a linear Paul trap for ion-trap quantum computation.
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Natarajan, V. The 2012 nobel prize in physics. Reson 18, 522–529 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-013-0070-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-013-0070-y