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Nobel Prize in Physics Recognizes Work in Quantum Mechanics
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that two properties of quantum mechanics, the physical laws that rule the subatomic realm, could be observed in a system large enough to see with the naked eye.
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“So what we did is we built some electrical circuits where the current and voltages actually obey the laws of quantum mechanics in detail. And it really showed that quantum mechanics just wasn’t some phenomenon on how atoms work, but it’s actually very general and how really any system under the right conditions can see that. So that was kind of showing quantum mechanics had a wider application class than we had thought.” “And all this work on, for example, quantum computing and also A.I. is coming out of the work that we did then. And your cell phone, that depends on the physics that goes into the cell phone is also part of what came out of this work. I’m still stunned. And, of course, thrilled and delighted that all this worked out — won the Nobel Prize, which I never imagined at any point in my life that there was a remotest chance of me of my winning the Nobel Prize.”
By Ang Li
October 7, 2025