The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling.

On the afternoon of October 7, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to three physicists, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, for their work on "discovering the phenomenon of quantum mechanical tunneling at the macroscopic scale and quantizing energy in electric circuits."

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that three physicists, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Photo: nobelprize.org

The research by three scientists has paved the way for the development of quantum circuits – the basis for current quantum computing technology. This work helps scientists better understand how quantum phenomena, normally only observable at the atomic level, can manifest in larger electronic systems, according to an announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Professors John Clarke and John M. Martinis are both from the University of California, USA, while Professor Michel H. Devoret is an associate professor with the University of California.

According to Nature and BBC, the research team's discovery is "an important step forward on the path to realizing stable and scalable quantum computers", and demonstrates the link between theoretical physics and modern technological applications.

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two pioneering scientists, John Joseph Hopfield (American) and Geoffrey Everest Hinton (British-Canadian, known as the "father of AI") for their discoveries "that helped develop machine learning with artificial neural networks". These are also the people who laid the foundation for artificial intelligence (AI) technology that is changing the world today.

This is the second Nobel Prize to be announced this year, after the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics, worth 11 million Swedish krona (about 1.17 million USD), will be awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm in December.

Nobel Week 2025 continues with the awards:

Chemistry (October 8 afternoon), Literature (October 9 afternoon), Peace (October 10 afternoon) and ending with the Nobel Prize in Economics (October 13 afternoon). Each prize includes a gold medal, a certificate and 11 million Swedish kronor.

KHANH HUNG

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/nobel-physics-2025-danh-cho-phat-hien-duong-ham-co-hoc-luong-tu-vi-mo-post816802.html