"It is wonderful to be able to celebrate the way that century-old quantum mechanics continually offers new surprises. It is also enormously useful, as quantum mechanics is the foundation of all digital technology,"
"We had not realized in any way that this might be the basis of a Nobel Prize,"
"completely stunned."
Three researchers in sub-atomic physics received the Nobel Prize for experiments in 1984 and 1985 that demonstrated quantum phenomena at the macroscopic level. The experiments established fundamentals for quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors. The researchers built a superconducting electric circuit forming a Josephson junction by separating superconducting components with a thin insulating layer. The arrangement could behave as a single particle with current flowing without voltage, and the system escaped the macroscopic zero-voltage state via quantum tunnelling, detected by the appearance of a voltage. The group worked together at the University of California, Berkeley; one researcher remains based there.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]