Nobel physics prize won by sleuths of 'spooky' quantum science

FILE PHOTO: Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger gestures during the presentation of a new telescope at the Institute for Quantum Optics in Vienna, Austria October 5, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on super computers and encrypted communication.

The awards were for given "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science", the award-giving body said on Tuesday.