John Clarke, Michel H Devoret, and John M Martinis received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking work on quantum tunnelling, which underpins technologies from cellphones to quantum computers, cryptography, and sensors, according to the Nobel committee

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research on seemingly obscure quantum tunnelling that is advancing digital technology.

Clarke, 83, conducted his research at the University of California , Berkeley; Martinis at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Devoret at Yale and the University of California, Santa Barbara. “One of the reasons that cellphones work is because of this work,” Clarke said, speaking from his cellphone. Read More

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