The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger for their discoveries in quantum mechanics.

In a statement, the jury announced that the trio were honored for their pioneering work on “quantum entanglement,” a mechanism by which two quantum particles are perfectly correlated regardless of the distance between them.

The jury noted that each of the laureates “has performed innovative experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave as one unit even when separated.”

He said their results “pave the way for new technologies based on quantum information.”

• Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo

The trio, who will share the prize of $ 901,500, which is 10 million Swedish crowns, will receive the award from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony to be held in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the death of creative scientist Alfred Nobel in 1896. rewards in his will.

Last year, the academy awarded the Japanese American Syukuro Manabe and the German Klaus Hasselmann for their research on climate models, while the Italian Giorgio Parisi received the award for his work on the interaction of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems.

The Nobel season will continue with the announcement of the Chemistry award on Wednesday, followed by the most anticipated Literature award on Thursday and the Peace award on Friday.