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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: Quantum tunneling, superconductors and quantum computers

This year, three researchers from the University of Santa Barbara won for a series of groundbreaking experiments that established the superconducting qubit – the central component that scientists around the world are now using to build quantum computers. In the article
Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of quantum properties. © Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and the quantization of energy in an electric circuit"

The Swedish Academy has announced that John Clark, Michelle Deborah and John Martinis have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of quantum phenomena in hand-held electrical circuits.