2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Foundational Quantum Tunneling Research
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Elissa Welle
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Summary
Three physicists - John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis - received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking 1980s experiments demonstrating quantum tunneling in physical circuits. Their work, which showed how subatomic particles can move through barrier materials they shouldn't be able to cross, was previously only theoretical. This foundational research directly led to the development of modern transistors and quantum computers.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledResearchers John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis created a circuit with no electrical resistance to demonstrate a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling
It was all theory before Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis created the circuit
Their experiments demonstrated tunneling is possible in a physical circuit, which later led to modern transistors and the nascent quantum computers
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