[Popular science with pictures] What exactly is "quantum entanglement" that won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award?
Recently, the "Multiphoton Entanglement and Interference Metrology" of the University of Science and Technology of China team led by Academician Pan Jianwei won the first prize of the 2015 National Natural Science Award. The highest award in the natural sciences.
The team also broke the record as the youngest team in the history of the National Natural Science Award.
The five finishers, in order of award, are Academician Pan Jianwei, Professor Peng Chengzhi, Professor Chen Yuao, Professor Lu Chaoyang, and Professor Chen Zengbing.
Among them, Pan Jianwei, Peng Chengzhi, and Chen Zengbing are born in the 1970s, and Chen Yuao and Lu Chaoyang are born in the 1980s.
Compared with many previous first-class national natural science awards, this team is more outstanding in terms of the number of top papers and international influence. Its results have been selected as the "Physics of the Year" selected by the American Physical Society (American Physical Society) three times. TheTopPhysicsStoriesoftheyea r), twice selected as the "Highlight soft the year" selected by the Institute of Physics (Institute of Physics), and recently selected as the first among the top ten developments in physics in the world in 2015 (Breakthrough of the Year) by the Physicsworld website of the British Institute of Physics.
The title of the award-winning project of Academician Pan Jianwei's team this time is "Multiphoton Entanglement and Interference Metrology." Careful friends will find that this is the paper published by Academician Pan Jianwei in the "Review of Modern Physics" magazine in 2012. Multiphotonentanglementandin "terferometry".
"Reviews of Modern Physics" is the top review magazine in the field of physics. It only invites contributions from world-renowned physicists in various fields to introduce the latest developments in the field.
This review by Academician Pan is also the first experimental paper published by a Chinese scientist in this journal.
