The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday morning that three academia affiliated with American universities have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics “discovered macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnels and energy quantification in circuits.”
British physicist John Clarke is a professor of experimental physics at Berkeley; French physicist Michel Devoret is an emeritus professor of applied physics at Yale University and a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara; John Martinis is also a UCSB physics professor and will enjoy a prize of nearly $1.2 million.
According to the announcement, they won a series of experiments using electronic circuits made from superconductors that can perform current without resistance and prove that “quantum mechanical properties can be made into concrete on a macroscopic scale.”
“It’s great to be able to celebrate the way that a century-old quantum mechanics continues to provide new surprises. It’s also very useful because quantum mechanics is the foundation of all digital technologies,” said Olle Eriksson, chairman of the Nobel Physics Committee.
