The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations recognizes outstanding research in the field of quantum physics. The award, given annually, aims to highlight significant achievements in quantum foundations and raise awareness about the field. For 2015, the award was shared by three research groups from TU Delft (Netherlands), the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and NIST (USA). Their groundbreaking work simultaneously closed the locality and detection loopholes in Bell experiments, providing strong evidence for the validity of quantum mechanics and ruling out local causality-based theories. This important advancement in quantum foundations was published in a peer-reviewed journal and recognized for its contribution to the field.
Source: https://www.nist.gov/awards/paul-ehrenfest-best-paper-award-quantum-foundations-year-2015
Keywords: quantum, mechanics, locality, causality, foundations
