7 October 2025
The Nobel Committee honours their pioneering experiments on superconducting circuits, which revealed quantum phenomena on a macroscopic scale. This groundbreaking work laid the foundation for current developments in quantum information science and superconducting qubits.
Here at Forschungszentrum Jülich, we are building on these achievements by developing quantum computers and JUNIQ, the world's first quantum computing infrastructure providing researchers and industry users with access to a variety of quantum systems.
The award also has personal significance within our research community: Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, who coordinates Jülich's large-scale QSolid and OpenSuperQ+ projects - both of which advance quantum computing based on superconducting circuits - collaborated closely with John Clarke early in his career. Rami Barends, who is heading Jülich's low-temperature laboratory for the development of superconducting quantum computers, worked for several years as a postdoctoral researcher in John Martinis' group.
This Nobel Prize win once again demonstrates how fundamental research drives technological innovation and how international and intergenerational collaboration continues to shape the future of quantum science.
