2025 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To Trio Of Scientists For Work On Quantum Computing

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to quantum physicists John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."

Quantum mechanics is the study of the behaviour of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scales. This field of physics is behind some of today's most transformative technologies, including supercomputers and smartphones. Through a series of groundbreaking experiments in the mid-1980s using electrical circuits, the laureates observed quantum mechanical phenomena called quantum tunnelling and quantization of energy levels. The trio proved the existence of these quantum phenomena on a system visible to the human eye.