Nobel for Physics

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David Wineland of U.S., France's Serge Haroche win for work with tiny quantum systems that could lead to new supercomputers, clocks<div class=feedflare>
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This year's Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to two researchers for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level.

Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US will share the prize, worth 8m Swedish kronor (£750,000; $1.2m)....





The Nobel citation said the award was for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.



Light and matter, when the minuscule scales of single particles are reached, behave in surprising ways in a part of physics known as quantum mechanics.



Working with light and matter on this level would have been unthinkable before the pair developed solutions to pick, manipulate and measure photons and ions individually, allowing an insight into a microscopic world that was once just the province of scientific theory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19879890