One of the most famous ideas in science, this declares that it is impossible to know all the physical attributes of a quantum particle or system simultaneously.
We are delighted to announce the winners in this edition of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition. Five stories claim prizes across the competition’s Open and Youth categories.
“The wildly divergent approaches to the quantum world and the constraint were inspiring,” says judge Colin Sullivan from Nature. Go here to find the winning stories, see what else the judges had to say about them and to read interviews with the authors.
Congratulations to the winners – and to all the writers who entered and made our decisions so difficult! Quantum shorts will be back again later this year with a call for short films.
Artur is the Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies and Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is also a Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK. His main research interest is information processing in quantum systems. Artur is a co-inventor of quantum cryptography, which uses the fundamental laws of physics to guarantee perfectly secure communication. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a recipient of several awards, including the 1995 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics and the 2007 Royal Society Hughes Medal. In his non-academic life, he is an avid scuba diver.