One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

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Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

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John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University, Connecticut and University of California, Santa Barbara), and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa ...

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis’s experiments in the 1980s proved that the strange laws of quantum mechanics could govern not just subatomic particles but entire circuits visible to the ...

Prize awarded for developing 'next generation of quantum technology' 'I'm completely stunned,' says UC Berkeley professor Quantum technology ubiquitous in everyday electronics Physics is second prize ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ‒ U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action," paving the way ...

Trio led experiments that paved the way for the next generation of quantum technologies The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for pioneering ...