The Nobel Prize in Physics (2025) was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in electrical circuits." These winners showed through a series of experiments that the strange properties of the quantum world can also manifest themselves in sufficiently large systems (macroscopic scale). Their work has been theoretically compared to the famous thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat (Nobel website (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information/)) and reminds us of some philosophical issues in quantum physics related to interpretations of the nature of physical reality and observability and measurement in quantum mechanics.
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