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This story was updated at 8:22 a.m. EDT. Two physicists have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for opening up the quantum world with experiments that probe the relationship between light and matter. French physicist Serge Haroche and American physicist David Wineland shared the 2012 Nobel physics prize for their work on quantum optics. The prizes were announced in Sweden today (Oct. 9) just before 6 a.m. EDT (noon in Sweden). The awards will be presented there on Dec. 10. "It's really overwhelming," Haroche said via phone during the Nobel committee's press conference announcing the prizes, adding that his first reaction was to call his children. [In Photos: Nobel Prize Winners 2012] Haroche is a physicist at Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He developed a technique to capture individual particles of light, called photons, by bouncing them back and forth between mirrors. "They have been able to detect photons without destroying them. This is very hard to do," one of the Nobel Prize committee announcers said. Credit: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wineland, based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado-Boulder, pioneered a method to probe charged atoms (ions) with laser photons. "David Wineland has achieved extraordinary control over the states of an ion," another Nobel committee member said. His discoveries have led to the development of one of the most precise clocks ever made, and could mark the first steps toward building a quantum computer, which would use tiny quantum systems to make calculations much quicker than normal computers. "Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature, in ways that were previously thought unattainable," Nobel officials wrote in a statement. The two researchers have taken different tacks to study some of the same phenomena, and their work is complementary, Nobel officials said. They will share the 8 million Swedish kronor prize ($1.2 million). Both physicists were informed of their win this morning. "I was walking with my wife," Haroche said of getting the call. "When I saw the [Swedish] area code, then I sat down." He said he planned to celebrate the honor with some lunchtime champagne, and then go back to the office. The call came to Wineland in Colorado in the middle of the night. "I was sleeping and my wife got the call and woke me up," Wineland told a Nobel Prize interviewer during a recorded call this morning. He called the news "a wonderful surprise of course. Just amazing." "We probably won't go back to sleep for a while," he added. You can follow Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz or LiveScience @livescience. We're also on Facebook & Google+.
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Haroche i Wineland dobili Nobelovu nagradu za fiziku Dva kvantna fizičara podijelili su Nobela za fiziku za utvrđivanje precizne kontrole fotona Nobelovu nagradu za fiziku podijelili su Francuz Serge Haroche i Amerikanac David Wineland za istraživanja u području kvantne optike. Haroche i Wineland utvrdili su preciznu kontrolu fotona, temeljne jedinice svjetlosti, što im je osim prestiža u znanstvenim krugovima donijelo i simpatičnu sumu od 600 tisuća dolara svakome. Nova era eksperimentalnih istraživanja u kvantnoj fizici počinje upravo s njima, jer su uspjeli promatrati kvantne čestice pojedinačno, bez uništavanja, pa bi njihov rad mogao utrti put razvoju superračunala temeljenog na kvantnoj fizici. Haroche je s kolegom iz Ecole normale superieure (ENS) Jean-Michelom Raimondom 2008. godine promatrao prijelaz fotona iz atipičnog stanja kvantnog svijeta u stanje koje savršeno odgovara klasičnoj fizici. Taj se fenomen naziva dekoherencija. Inače, prvi nobelovac za fiziku bio je Wilhelm Roentgen za svoje otkriće rendgenskih zraka, a do sada su 194 osobe dobile Nobelovu nagradu za fiziku.