Advanced the foundations and experimental control of photon entanglement, including multipartite quantum states and entanglement swapping between photons that had never interacted directly.
IQOQI Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Zeilinger helped make entanglement an experimentally usable resource as well as a test of quantum foundations. His work ranges from the theoretical structure of multipartite correlations to laboratory protocols that connect initially separate entangled pairs. These contributions matter for quantum information because a network must create and distribute correlations, not merely send ordinary signals. His inclusion reflects that foundational and experimental record, with the GHZ framework and entanglement-swapping experiment attributed to their collaborators.
Documented work base: Austria
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