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\nUS-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for \u201cexperiments that revealed quantum physics in action\u201d, paving the way for the development of the next generation of digital technologies.
\n\u201cMy feelings are that I\u2019m completely stunned. Of course it had never occurred to me in any way that this might be the basis of a Nobel Prize,\u201d Clarke told the Nobel press conference by telephone on Tuesday.
\n\u201cI\u2019m speaking on my cell phone and I suspect that you are too, and one of the underlying reasons that the cell phone works is because of all this work.\u201d
\n\u2018New surprises\u2019 in century-old field of quantum mechanics
\nQuantum mechanical behaviours are well studied at the level of the incredibly small \u2014 atoms and sub-atomic particles \u2014 but are often seen as bizarre and unintuitive compared with classical physics and its far larger scale.
\nThe Nobel winners carried out experiments in the mid-1980s with an electronic circuit built of superconductors and demonstrated that quantum mechanics could also influence everyday objects under certain conditions.
\n\u201cIt is wonderful to be able to celebrate the way that century-old quantum mechanics continually offers new surprises. It is also enormously useful, as quantum mechanics is the foundation of all digital technology,\u201d Olle Eriksson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, said.
\nQuantum technology is already ubiquitous, with transistors in computer microchips an everyday example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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