Two UC Santa Barbara researchers are part of a trio of people who have just been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics.
John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis share the 2025 honors. Clarke is at UC Berkeley, while Devoret and Martinis are at UCSB.
They share the award for quantum mechanical tunneling. Their research focuses on a superconducting electrical system that could tunnel from one state to another, like passing through a wall.
They also showed the system could absorb and emit energy in specific doses, as predicted by quantum mechanics.
The research is considered a major step forward in future quantum technologies.
