John Martinis, one winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, will visit Jyväskylä on the 8th to 9th of September 2026, in conjunction with the Finnish Quantum Days organized by the University of Jyväskylä and InstituteQ. The visit of John Martinis has been co-organized by the Finnish Physical Society in collaboration with the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters and will be streamed publicly. Following the lecture, the recording will be made available on our website.
Physics Nobel 2025:
“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”
“In quantum mechanics, particles can move straight through a barrier, in a process called tunnelling. Quantum mechanical behaviour is mainly exhibited at extremely microscopic scales. However, in 1984 and 1985, John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret and John Clarke demonstrated quantum mechanical properties on a macroscopic scale. In an electrical circuit built from superconductors – which conduct current without any resistance – tunnelling through an insulating layer occurred because the charged particles behaved as a single particle.”
Here is the recording of John Martinis lecture at Finnish Quantum Days 2026. If the video does not work, please access the recording here.
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