Anton Zeilinger (; born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian
quantum physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
and
Nobel laureate in physics of 2022. Zeilinger is professor of physics
emeritus at the
University of Vienna and senior scientist at the
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Most of his research concerns the fundamental aspects and applications of
quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of ...
.
In 2007, Zeilinger received the first
Inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the
Institute of Physics, London, for "his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of
quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of
quantum information".
In October 2022, he received the
Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect (; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
Aspect was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, "for experiments with entangl ...
and
John Clauser
John Francis Clauser (; born December 1, 1942) is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality.
Clauser was a ...
for their outstanding work involving experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of
Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
Early life and education
Anton Zeilinger was born in 1945 in
Ried im Innkreis
Ried im Innkreis (Central Bavarian: ''Riad'') is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, approximately west of Linz and north of Salzburg. It is the capital of the district of Ried im Innkreis, and it serves as the administrative centre ...
,
Upper Austria,
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. He studied
physics at the
University of Vienna from 1963 to 1971.
He received a doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1971, with a thesis on "Neutron depolarization measurements on a Dy-single crystal" under
Helmut Rauch. He qualified as a university lecturer (
habilitation) at the
Vienna University of Technology
TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...
in 1979.
Career
In the 1970s, Zeilinger worked at the Vienna Atominstitut as a research assistant and associate researcher at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
Neutron Diffraction Laboratory until 1979, when he accepted the position of assistant professor at the same Atominstitut. That year he qualified as a university professor. at the Vienna University of Technology.
In 1981 Zeilinger returned to MIT in 1981 as an associate professor on the physics faculty until 1983. Between 1980 and 1990 he worked as a professor at the Vienna University of Technology, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna. He was also, between 2004 and 2013, the scientific director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna between 2004 and 2013.
Zeilinger became professor emeritus at the University of Vienna in 2013.
He was president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2013 till 2022.
Since 2006, Zeilinger is the vice chairman of the board of trustees of the
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, an ambitious project initiated by Zeilinger's proposal. In 2009, he founded the International Academy Traunkirchen, which is dedicated to the support of gifted students in science and technology. He is a fan of the ''
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'' by
Douglas Adams
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, going so far as to name his sailboat
42.
Research
Quantum teleportation
Most widely known is his first realization of
quantum teleportation of an independent qubit. He later expanded this work to developing a source for freely propagating teleported qubits and quantum teleportation over 144 kilometers between two Canary Islands. Quantum teleportation is an essential concept in many quantum information protocols. Besides its role for the transfer of quantum information, it is also considered as an important possible mechanism for building gates within quantum computers.
Entanglement swapping – teleportation of entanglement
Entanglement swapping is the teleportation of an entangled state. After its proposal, entanglement swapping has first been realized experimentally by Zeilinger's group in 1998. It was then applied to carry out a delayed-choice entanglement swapping test.
Entanglement beyond two qubits – GHZ-states and their realizations
Anton Zeilinger contributed decisively to the opening up of the field of multi-particle entanglement. In 1990, he was the first with
Daniel Greenberger and
Michael Horne to work on entanglement of more than two qubits. The resulting GHZ theorem (see
Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state) is fundamental for quantum physics, as it provides the most succinct contradiction between local realism and the predictions of quantum mechanics.
GHZ states were the first instances of multi-particle entanglement ever investigated.
Finally, in 1999, he succeeded in providing the first experimental evidence of entanglement beyond two particles and also the first test of quantum nonlocality for GHZ states.
Quantum communication, quantum cryptography, quantum computation
In 1998 (published in 2000), his group was the first to implement
quantum cryptography
Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform cryptographic tasks. The best known example of quantum cryptography is quantum key distribution which offers an information-theoretically secure solution ...
with
entangled photons.
He then also applied quantum entanglement to optical
quantum computation, where in 2005, he performed the first implementation of one-way quantum computation. This is a protocol based on quantum measurement as proposed by Knill, Laflamme and Milburn.
The experiments of Zeilinger and his group on the distribution of entanglement over large distances began with both free-space and fiber-based quantum communication and teleportation between laboratories located on the different sides of the river
Danube. This was then extended to larger distances across the city of
Vienna
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and over 144 km between two
Canary Islands, resulting in a successful demonstration that
quantum communication
Quantum information science is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the analysis, processing, and transmission of information using quantum mechanics principles. It combines the study of Information science with quantum effects in p ...
with satellites is feasible. His dream is to put sources of entangled light onto a satellite in orbit.
A first step was achieved during an experiment at the Italian .
Further novel entangled states
With his group, Anton Zeilinger made many contributions to the realization of novel entangled states. The source for polarization-entangled photon pairs developed with
Paul Kwiat when he was a PostDoc in Zeilinger's group became a workhorse in many laboratories worldwide. The first demonstration of entanglement of orbital angular momentum of photons opened up a new burgeoning field of research in many laboratories.
Macroscopic quantum superposition
Zeilinger is also interested to extend quantum mechanics into the macroscopic domain. In the early 1990s, he started experiments in the field of atom optics. He developed a number of ways to coherently manipulate atomic beams, many of which, like the coherent energy shift of an atomic
De Broglie wave upon diffraction at a time-modulated light wave, have become cornerstones of today's ultracold atom experiments. In 1999, Zeilinger abandoned atom optics for experiments with very complex and massive macro-molecules –
fullerene
A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon whose molecule consists of carbon atoms connected by single and double bonds so as to form a closed or partially closed mesh, with fused rings of five to seven atoms. The molecule may be a hollow sphere, ...
s. The successful demonstration of quantum interference for these C
60 and C
70 molecules in 1999 opened up a very active field of research.
In 2005, Zeilinger with his group again started a new field, the quantum physics of mechanical cantilevers. The group was the first – in the year 2006 along with work from Heidmann in Paris and Kippenberg in Garching – to demonstrate experimentally the self-cooling of a micro-mirror by
radiation pressure
Radiation pressure is the mechanical pressure exerted upon any surface due to the exchange of momentum between the object and the electromagnetic field. This includes the momentum of light or electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength that is a ...
, that is, without feedback.
Using orbital angular momentum states, he was able to demonstrate entanglement of angular momentum up to 300 ħ.
Further fundamental tests
Zeilinger's program of fundamental tests of quantum mechanics is aimed at implementing experimental realizations of many non-classical features of quantum physics for individual systems. In 1998, he provided the final test of
Bell's inequality closing the communication loophole by using superfast random number generators. His group also realized the first Bell inequality experiment implementing the freedom-of-choice condition and provided the first realization of a Bell test without the fair sampling assumption for photons.
Among the further fundamental tests he performed the most notable one is his test of a large class of nonlocal realistic theories proposed by
Leggett. The group of theories excluded by that experiment can be classified as those which allow reasonable subdivision of ensembles into sub-ensembles. It goes significantly beyond
Bell's theorem. While Bell showed that a theory which is both local and realistic is at variance with quantum mechanics, Leggett considered nonlocal realistic theories where the individual photons are assumed to carry polarization. The resulting
Leggett inequality was shown to be violated in the experiments of the Zeilinger group.
In an analogous way, his group showed that even quantum systems where entanglement is not possible exhibit non-classical features which cannot be explained by underlying non-contextual probability distributions.
Neutron interferometry
Anton Zeilinger's earliest work is perhaps his least known. His work on neutron interferometry has provided an important foundation for his later research achievements.
As a member of the group of his thesis supervisor,
Helmut Rauch, at the
Technical University of Vienna, Zeilinger participated in a number of neutron interferometry experiments at the
Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble. His very first such experiment confirmed a fundamental prediction of quantum mechanics, the sign change of a spinor phase upon rotation. This was followed by the first experimental realization of coherent spin superposition of
matter waves
Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being an example of wave–particle duality. All matter exhibits wave-like behavior. For example, a beam of electrons can be diffracted just like a beam of light or a water wav ...
. He continued his work in
neutron interferometry at
MIT
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with
C.G. Shull (
Nobel Laureate), focusing specifically on dynamical diffraction effects of
neutrons in perfect crystals which are due to multi-wave coherent superposition. After his return to Europe, he built up an interferometer for very cold neutrons which preceded later similar experiments with atoms. The fundamental experiments there included a most precise test of the linearity of quantum mechanics. Zeilinger built a beautiful
double-slit diffraction experiment on the S18 instrument at the
Institut Laue-Langevin which, later on, gained in accuracy and could act with only one neutron at a time in the apparatus.
Works
Zeilinger has written more than 550 scientific articles, of which 500 are peer reviewed and 16 are considered highly cited papers.
Honours and awards
International prizes and awards
*
Nobel Prize in Physics (2022, with
John Clauser
John Francis Clauser (; born December 1, 1942) is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality.
Clauser was a ...
,
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect (; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
Aspect was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, "for experiments with entangl ...
)
*
Micius Quantum Prize, Micius Quantum Foundation (2019, with
Stephen Wiesner,
Charles H. Bennett,
Gilles Brassard,
Artur Ekert
Artur Konrad Ekert FRS (born 19 September 1961) is a Polish professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College, Oxford, Lee Kong Chian C ...
and
Pan Jianwei)
* Cozzarelli Prize in Physical and Mathematical Sciences,
PNAS and
National Academy of Sciences (2018, with Alexey A. Melnikov, Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup, Mario Krenn, Vedran Dunjko, Markus Tiersch and
Hans Briegel)
*
John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications,
University of Toronto (2017, with
Ronald Hanson and Sae Woo Nam)
* Silver medal of the
Senate of the Czech Republic (2017)
* Willis E. Lamb Award, Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) conference (2016, with Robin Côté,
Maciej Lewenstein
Maciej Lewenstein (born September 21, 1955 in Warsaw), is a Polish theoretical physicist, currently an ICREA professor at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelldefels near Barcelona. He is an author of over 480 scientific articl ...
and
John Madey)
* Academy Medal of the
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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The Academ ...
(2015)
* Urania Medal,
Urania Berlin (2013)
* Finalist, World Technology Award for Communications Technology, World Technology Network (2012)
* Ben Gurion Medal,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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(2010)
*
Wolf Prize in Physics,
Wolf Foundation (2010, with
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect (; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
Aspect was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, "for experiments with entangl ...
and
John Clauser
John Francis Clauser (; born December 1, 1942) is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality.
Clauser was a ...
)
* Grand Merit Cross with Star of the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009)
* ERC Advanced Grant,
European Research Council (2008)
* International Quantum Communication Award,
Tamagawa University (2008, with
Jeffrey Shapiro,
Akira Furusawa)
* Inaugural
Isaac Newton Medal
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,
Institute of Physics (2008)
* Quantum Electronics Prize,
European Physical Society (2007)
*
King Faisal International Prize
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in physics,
King Faisal Foundation
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(2005)
*
Descartes Prize,
European Union
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, as member of the IST-QuComm project collaboration (2004)
* , Society of German Scientists and Physicians (2004)
*
Klopsteg Memorial Award The Klopsteg Memorial Award is an annual prize given to a notable physicist in memory of Paul E. Klopsteg. Established in 1990, it is awarded by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
The Klopsteg Memorial Award recipient is asked to make a ...
,
American Association of Physics Teachers (2004)
* Sartorius Prize,
Göttingen Academy of Sciences
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General information
The or ...
(2003)
* Order
Pour le Mérite for Arts and Sciences (2000)
* Senior Humboldt Fellow Prize,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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(2000)
* European Optics Prize,
European Optical Society (1996)
* European Lecturer,
European Physical Society (1996)
* Prix Vinci d'Excellence (1995)
Austrian prizes and awards
* Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to Vienna,
City of Vienna
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(2018)
*
Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the
Republic of Austria (2015)
* Tiroler Adler Orden, State Government of
Tyrol (2013)
* Grand Gold Decoration,
City of Vienna
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(2006)
*
Wilhelm Exner Medal The Wilhelm Exner Medal has been awarded by the Austrian Industry Association, (ÖGV), for excellence in research and science since 1921.
The medal is dedicated to Wilhelm Exner (1840–1931), former president of the Association, who initialize ...
, Austrian Trade Association (2005).
* Johannes Kepler-Prize, State Government of
Upper Austria (2002)
*
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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History
The "Austrian ...
,
Republic of Austria (2001)
* Visionary of the Year in Science (2001)
* Science Award of the
City of Vienna
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(2000)
* Kardinal Innitzer Würdigungspreis,
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna
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(1997)
* Austrian Scientist of the Year (1996)
* Junior
Prize of the Theodor Körner Foundation (1980)
* Prize for Junior Scientists, Kardinal Innitzer Foundation (1979)
* Prize of the
City of Vienna
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for the Encouragement of Young Scientists (1975)
Memberships
* Foreign Member of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
* Foreign Member of the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
* Foreign Honorary Member of the
Romanian Academy of Sciences
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* Foreign Member of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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* Foreign Member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
* Foreign Member of the
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
* Fellow of the
American Physical Society, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
the
World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and
Optica
* Socio Corrispondente Straniero,
Accademia Galileiana
* Member of the
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,
Berlin-Brandenburg,
Austrian,
Slovak Academies of Sciences,
the
Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea,
the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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,
the
Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
and the
French Académie des Sciences
Further distinctions
* Honorary doctorates from the
Humboldt University of Berlin (2005), the
University of Gdańsk
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History
...
(2006), the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2015),
Technion (2020), the
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (2022) and the
Israel Institute of Technology (2022)
* In 2009, Anton Zeilinger was among the "10 people who could change the world", elected by the British newspaper ''
New Statesman''.
*
Asteroid 48681 Zeilinger (2005)
* Honorary professorships from the
University of Science and Technology of China (1996),
Nanjing University (2016) and
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU, ) is a public research university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. As a member of Double First Class University Plan, C9 League, Project 985, and Project 211, it is a leading national university with special strengths ...
(2019)
Distinguished lectureships
* S.N. Bose Memorial Lecture,
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,
India
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(2021)
* Golden Webinar,
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2021)
* David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics,
Harvard University
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, US (2019)
* Bethe Lectures,
Cornell University
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, US (2016)
* Zhongshan Lecture,
Nanjing University,
China (2016)
* Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecture,
Stanford University, US (2015)
* Montroll Memorial Lecture,
University of Rochester, US (2014)
* Herzberg Memorial Lecture,
Canadian Association of Physicists
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,
Canada
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(2012)
*
Racah Lectures in Physics,
Hebrew University,
Israel
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(2012)
* Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lectures,
Oxford University,
UK (2012)
* Festkolloquium, 500. WE-Heraeus Seminar, Heraeus-Stiftung,
Bad Honnef
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,
Germany
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(2012)
* Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture Series,
University of Cape Town,
South Africa
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(2011)
* Mark W. Zemansky Lecture,
City College of New York, US (2011)
* Van Vleck Lecture,
University of Minnesota
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, US (2011)
* Ockham Lecture,
Merton College,
Oxford University, UK (2010)
* Dvorak Memorial Lecture,
University of Prague, Czech Republic (2010)
* Celsius Lecture,
Uppsala University,
Sweden (2010)
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Lectures,
University of Hamburg, Germany (2009)
* Festvortrag, 150th birthday of Max Planck,
Max Planck Society,
German Physical Society,
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
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,
Humboldt University Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of ...
, Germany (2009)
* Inaugural Kavli Colloquium,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience,
Delft University of Technology
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, Netherlands (2009)
* Newton Prize Lecture,
Institute of Physics, UK (2008)
* Asher Perez Memorial Lecture,
Technion, Israel (2008)
* Wolfgang-Paul Lecture,
Bonn University, Germany (2007)
* Seventh Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship,
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (2006)
* Colloquium Ehrenfestii,
Leiden University, Netherlands (2004)
* Angstrom Lecture,
Uppsala University,
Sweden (2003)
* Amos de-Shalit Memorial Lecture,
Weizmann Institute,
Israel
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(2003)
* Solly Cohen and Shimon Ofer Memorial Lecture, Racah Institute of Physics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2003)
* Schrödinger Lecture,
Imperial College,
UK (2003)
* Niels Bohr Lecture,
Copenhagen University
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,
Denmark
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(2003)
* Schrödinger Lecture,
Trinity College,
Ireland (1999)
* H.L. Welsh Lecture in Physics,
University of Toronto, Canada (1997)
* Colloquium Ehrenfestii,
Leiden University, Netherlands (1996)
*Sir Thomas Lyle Lecture,
University of Melbourne, Australia (1984)
In popular culture
Zeilinger has been interviewed by
Morgan Freeman in season 2 of ''
Through the Wormhole''.
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References
External links
*
*
Curriculum Vitae
of Anton Zeilinger
*
''Quantum Teleportation'' by Zeilinger
2003 update of 2000 Scientific American article
*
''Spooky action and beyond''
an interview with Anton Zeilinger at signandsight.com
*The lecture delivered by Professor Anton Zeilinger as the inaugural recipient of the ''Isaac Newton Medal'', Institute of Physics, 17 June 2008
(68 min 25 sec).
Note: On the page linked, a second video is accommodated which shows Professor Zeilinger speaking amongst others about his personal life.
Anton Zeilinger on the opening panel discussion at the Quantum to Cosmos festival
at Perimeter Institute
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with Katherine Freese, Leo Kadanoff
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, Lawrence Krauss, Neil Turok
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, Sean M. Carroll, Gino Segrè, Andrew White, and David Tong.
Homepage of the International Academy Traunkirchen
a German-language
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interview with Zeilinger by Andrea Naica-Loebell
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