Overview

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award Tuesday in Stockholm, citing landmark experiments in electrical circuits.
• The prize citation highlights macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation demonstrated in a circuit.
• The committee described tunnelling observed at scales involving many particles, extending quantum behavior into engineered devices.
• The laureates conducted the work at UC Berkeley (Clarke), UC Santa Barbara (Martinis) and Yale with UC Santa Barbara (Devoret).
• The prize will be presented on December 10 with an award of 11 million Swedish kronor, as Nobel announcements continue through next week.