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Photonics and the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Giorgio Parisi recently shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the theory of complex systems. What is not well known is that photonics was crucial to validating Parisi’s predictions.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 has been awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klauss Hasselmann for “quantifying and reliably predicting global warming” and to Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”.

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Fig. 1: Photonics and replica symmetry breaking.

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  1. Department of Physics, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Claudio Conti & Eugenio DelRe

  2. Institute for Complex System, National Research Council (ISC-CNR), Rome, Italy

    Claudio Conti & Eugenio DelRe

  3. Research Center Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy

    Claudio Conti & Eugenio DelRe

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Conti, C., DelRe, E. Photonics and the Nobel Prize in Physics. Nat. Photon. 16, 6–7 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00933-5

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