Nobel Prize in Physics goes to early research that led to today's quantum computers

"On Thursday, three physicists received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics in the 1980s. Researchers John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis created a circuit with no electrical resistance to demonstrate a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, or how atoms and subatomic particles can move through a barrier material they shouldn't be able to cross."

"In 2019, Martinis, then hardware lead of Google's Quantum AI team, and other researchers declared the creation of a computer with " quantum supremacy" far faster at solving a problem than the fastest supercomputer. He left the role at Google but is still a professor at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Baraba. Devoret is the chief scientist of quantum hardware at Google Quantum AI and a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara."

Three physicists received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental work on quantum mechanics from the 1980s. John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis built a circuit with no electrical resistance that demonstrated quantum tunneling in a physical device. The experiments moved tunneling from theory to demonstrable practice and helped enable modern transistors and the emerging quantum computing industry. Clarke linked the work to everyday technologies such as cell phones. Martinis and Devoret later worked on quantum computing at Google, including a 2019 claim of quantum supremacy, and they hold academic and research positions at major universities.

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