Three US-based scientists, John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments demonstrating quantum physics in action. Their work, conducted in the 1980s with superconducting circuits, revealed quantum effects in everyday objects and forms the basis for quantum computing and other next-generation technologies like quantum cryptography and sensors. Their discoveries also underpin fundamental aspects of current digital technology.

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