'From the Einstein-Bohr Debate to Quantum Information: A New Quantum Revolution': 2017 Carnegie Lecture by Professor Alain Aspect
On Monday 27 March, the University of Glasgow welcomed Professor Alain Aspect to deliver the fourth Carnegie Lecture.
Professor Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his work in experimental quantum physics. He is most well-known for his experiments on entanglement with Bell’s inequalities, and on single-photon wave-particle duality. His most recent work bears upon quantum atom optics, quantum degenerate atomic gases, quantum simulation of disordered materials with ultra-cold atoms.
He is currently a CNRS Senior Scientist at Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d'Optique. Professor Aspect also teaches at Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Augustin Fresnel Chair), and at Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau. Since 1992, he is with the Atom Optics group that he has established at Institut d'Optique.
Over the last four decades, Professor Aspect’s research has been pivotal to the development of quantum and atom optics.