How 3 scientists who won physics Nobel brought ‘quantum physics from subatomic world onto chip’

Bengaluru: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three American scientists for a series of experiments conducted in the 1980s on quantum mechanics. They experimentally showed that quantum mechanics can govern even large collective systems (or macroscopic systems) and not just microscopic elements like atoms and subatomic particles.

The three physicists who have won the award for their ground-breaking work are: John Clarke, University of California; Michel H. Devoret, Yale University and University of California and John M. Martinis, University of California.

“I am stunned. We had not realised it anyway; this might be the basis for a Nobel Prize,” Clarke said in a phone interview with journalists present at the award ceremony. He also mentioned that their work in many