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From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics

  • Written by Zhixin Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
imageThis illustration shows, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis.Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach, CC BY-NC

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis – for their study of quantum mechanics in a macroscopic electrical circuit.

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