The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clark, Michelle Devore and John Martinis – for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and the quantification of energy in electrical circuits. This was reported on the awards website.
Scientists from the universities of California and Yale were the first to demonstrate that the laws of the quantum world can manifest in systems large enough to hold in one's hand. Their superconducting circuits can pass through walls – to move from one state to another without crossing energy barriers, as well as absorb and radiate energy in strictly defined portions.
These experiments show that quantum effects can be observed and controlled at the macroscopic level. The laureate's work became an important step towards the creation of quantum computers and extreme sensors, and also changed the basic idea of \u200b\u200bthe border between classical and quantum physics.
In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton for fundamental discoveries that enabled the development of machine learning based on neural networks.
