Reacción a "Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their experiments with a chip that revealed quantum physics in action"

I worked with John M. Martinis, one of the scientists who won the Nobel Prize. We published two articles in Nature magazine with them about five or six years ago, and in the quantum technologies group I led at the University of the Basque Country, we had a very successful collaboration with him.

At that time, John Martinis was still a professor at the University of Santa Barbara, but he was fully dedicated to Google. His team achieved world records in quantum supremacy and showed that quantum computers could go very far. The Nobel Prize is shared with Michel H. Devoret, a French colleague who moved to Yale University and with whom I have been friends for many years; and John Clarke, who is the “patriarch” of superconducting qubits, which are the basis of quantum computing. These three colleagues achieved pioneering work in the laboratory—not theoretical work—with qubits encoded in superconducting circuits at extremely low temperatures, lower than outer space.

They deserve the Nobel Prize by far because their work is the basis for many things in quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum sensing... It is a celebration for the entire community in 2025, which UNESCO has declared the year of quantum science and technology.