French-American physicist who won the 2025 Nobel physics prize, alongside John Clarke and John Martinis, for work on quantum tunnelling at a macroscopic scale—the breakthrough that made quantum computing possible.
Dr Devoret helped develop the transmon, a more robust qubit design that evolved from the phase qubits the trio's original work had made possible. Transmons are oscillations between quantised energy levels in a Josephson junction and have become a leading approach to building quantum computers.
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