Nobel Prize in Physics 2012: Building and Controlling Schrödinger's Cat

Abstract

The Nobel prize in physics 2012 was awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for having independently designed and performed groundbreaking experiments on individual quantum systems without destroying their quantum state. These measurements explore the foundations of quantum mechanics and they make real the thought experiments conceived, during the first half of the 20th century, by the founding fathers of quantum theory.