The academy said in a statement:

“This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has opened up opportunities to develop the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors.”

She explained, “Experiments Winners “The award demonstrated that quantum mechanical properties can be observed on a large scale,” he said Quantum mechanics They allow a particle to move directly through a barrier, using a process called “quantum tunneling.” Once large numbers of particles are involved, quantum mechanical effects usually become insignificant.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences statement said: “In 1984 and 1985, John Clark, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinez conducted a series of experiments on an electronic circuit composed of superconductors, which are components that can conduct current without electrical resistance in the circuit. The superconducting components were separated by a thin layer of non-conducting material, a setup known as a Josephson junction.

By optimizing and measuring all the different properties of their circuit, they were able to control and explore the phenomena that arise when a current passes through it, forming Particles Charges moving through the superconductor together form a system that behaves as if it were a single particle filling the entire circuit.”