Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Macroscopic Quantum Tunnelling Discoveries
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Three California-based scientists - John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis - have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking observations of quantum mechanical tunnelling on the macroscopic scale. Their discovery provided fundamental insights that form the basis of modern quantum engineering and quantum computing efforts. The Nobel Committee chair emphasized how century-old quantum mechanics continues to offer new surprises and remains enormously useful.
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"The discovery by John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis provided some of the fundamental insights on which modern quantum engineering and efforts to build quantum computers rely."
"'It is wonderful to be able to celebrate the way that century-old quantum mechanics continually offers new surprises,' said Olle Eriksson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics."
"'It is also enormously useful, as quantum mechanics is the foundation...'"
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis honoured for their observations of quantum effects in a superconducting electric circuit
