American physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2025 Nobel physics prize, alongside John Martinis and Michel Devoret, for showing that quantum tunnelling operates at a macro as well as a micro scale, and does so in a way that can be encoded into qubits—the quantum equivalent of conventional computing's bits.
The trio used a copper tube filled with powdered copper attached to a Josephson junction (an approach they called an artificial atom) to show that the current across the gap was itself quantised—ratcheting up and down stepwise, rather than continuously. This work laid the foundations for quantum computing.
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