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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 10h

Over at @naturepodcast.bsky.social we also made a super short vid on this year's physics Nobel Prize. Quantum phenomena at the macroscopic scale in two minutes... go! With me, and Ben Thompson & camera work by the fab @emzywb.bsky.social 🧪⚛️

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Davide Castelvecchi @castelvecchi.bsky.social · 1d

John Martinis’ wife didn’t wake him in the middle of the night (California time) to tell him he had won a Nobel. “I got up a little bit before 6. Then I opened my computer and saw John and Michel’s and my pictures."
Story by @lizziegibney.bsky.social and me

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Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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Federico Levi @fdlevi.bsky.social · 1d

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms

Nature Physics - In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this...

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Federico Levi @fdlevi.bsky.social · 1d

The laureates played a key role in it, and we were lucky enough to have them look back on their work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

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Federico Levi @fdlevi.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool Nobel Prize this year. Quantum physics is (too) often reduced to the 100-year-old work of its pioneers. Back at @natphys.nature.com we celebrated experiments that took it from the 1920s to superconducting quantum computers www.nature.com/articles/s41... very much the spirit of this prize.

The ABC of cQED - Nature Physics

The combination of microwave photons with superconducting quantum circuits offers promise for quantum technologies and the fundamental study of quantum light–matter interactions. This month, a Focus issue explores this field of research.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating quantum physics on the macroscopic scale

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Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

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Nature Physics @natphys.nature.com · 1d

Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits?

Here it is: ($)

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 7

Experiments reveal that high-energy plasma events in the Solar System and beyond might be driven by magnetic fluctuations and turbulence that happen on very small scales

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Merging of magnetic plasma ‘flux ropes’ is driven by turbulence

Experiments reveal that high-energy plasma events in the Solar System and beyond might be driven by magnetic fluctuations and turbulence that happen on very small scales.

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 4

Nature research paper: Direct observation of coherent elastic antineutrino–nucleus scattering

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Direct observation of coherent elastic antineutrino–nucleus scattering - Nature

Direct observation of coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering is reported using the data from the CONUS+ experiment in which the antineutrinos with energy less than 10 MeV are produced in a nuclear reactor.

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 1

This process could enable physicists to develop better ways of studying neutrinos

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Observation of elusive interaction between neutrinos and atomic nuclei

Neutrinos are particles that are notoriously hard to detect, but observations of a process called coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering could enable physicists to develop better ways of studying them.

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Shamini Bundell @shamini.bsky.social · Jul 31

My latest short video, made with help from @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social who spoke to the researchers who went down there for the @naturepodcast.bsky.social.

Nature @nature.com · Jul 31

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 30

Ask a bunch of physicists to explain a quantum experiment and you’re unlikely to get the same description twice

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Physicists should revel in the diversity of ways to understand quantum mechanics

Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · Jul 30

This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows

First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · Jul 30

A Nature survey shows how widely researchers disagree on what quantum mechanics says about reality.

Read the results - and find out what interpretation suits you - at this @nature.com article by @lizziegibney.bsky.social

A run-down of major findings: 🧵
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Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows

First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 18

Nature research paper: Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays

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Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays - Nature

The LHCb experiment at CERN has observed significant asymmetries between the decay rates of the beauty baryon and its CP-conjugated antibaryon, thus demonstrating CP violation in baryon decays.

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · Jun 19

Last week I was lucky enough to go to Heligoland for a massive quantum shindig.

I asked some incredible physicists & philosophers why we still can't agree on what quantum mechanics tells us about reality ⚛️🧪

[email protected], @gemmadlc.bsky.social & more

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Why quantum physicists are still arguing after 100 years

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 16

Nature research paper: Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage

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Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage - Nature

A study demonstrates a public generator of random numbers based on device-independent techniques, with the randomness being fully auditable and traceable.

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · Jun 12

Can one particle instantaneously affect another? Is nature truly random? And did Heisenberg also get seasick??

Some musings on my weird and wonderful week on the island of Heligoland ⚛️🧪

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Happy birthday quantum mechanics! I got a ticket to the ultimate physics party

Nature reporter joins hundreds of physicists on a remote island to celebrate Heisenberg’s enlightening trip there 100 years ago.

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 12

A quantum random-number generator has been developed that uses classical cryptography to certify that its output was produced by a quantum process

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Cheat-proof random numbers generated from quantum entanglement

A quantum random-number generator has been developed that uses classical cryptography to certify that its output was produced by a quantum process.

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 11

These prototype processors made from atomically thin materials offer a glimpse into a post-silicon-transistor future, but scaling challenges remain.

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Computer processors built from 2D materials

These prototype processors made from atomically thin materials offer a glimpse into a post-silicon-transistor future, but scaling challenges remain.

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · May 29

Anyone with hot science journo skills want to come and edit my stories? In @nature.com's European bureau we're looking for a locum news editor, based in either London or Berlin, on a 9 month contract. Application deadline 12 June🧪
More info here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

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Nature @nature.com · May 19

Nature research paper: Proton transport from the antimatter factory of CERN

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Proton transport from the antimatter factory of CERN - Nature

The successful transport of a trapped proton cloud from the antimatter factory of CERN using a transportable, superconducting, autonomous and open Penning-trap system that can distribute antiprotons into other experiments is reported.

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Nature @nature.com · May 15

A prediction of the gravitational waves produced by interacting black holes achieves high precision

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Black hole fly-by modelled with landmark precision

A prediction of the gravitational waves produced by interacting black holes achieves high precision and demonstrates the link between general relativity and geometry.

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