The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit” based on a superconducting Josephson junction. A brief overview will be presented of the leading discoveries on superconductivity that paved the way to the superconducting devices that are used for many applications, outlining the pioneering work of the awarded trio of physicists, their seminal discovery and its relevance, most notably, for the technology on which most quantum computers are based.
Organized by: Paulo Silva, Marcos Gouveia