Carlos Sabín
Ramón y Cajal Researcher Department of Theoretical Physics UAM Madrid
For decades, quantum entanglement was just a theoretical curiosity and quantum mechanics itself was just a good theory, which may not be a complete description of nature. The experiments led by the laureates showed, among other things, that quantum theory is the only reasonable description for results observed on the scale of a few particles, ruling out other alternatives, and that quantum entanglement is an indisputable experimental reality.
This allowed them to open the doors of experiments to the development of the field of quantum information, which has eventually given rise to modern quantum technologies, such as quantum computers, which in recent years have undergone a major development from ideas to facts.