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Devoret Wins Nobel for Groundbreaking Quantum Computing Advances

12/19/2025

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Michel H. Devoret, a physicist, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum mechanics conducted over 40 years ago.
While at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, he demonstrated quantum properties in visible circuits.
Devoret and his team at Google reported that their quantum computer executed an algorithm 13,000 times faster than a leading supercomputer.
Devoret anticipates larger quantum computers will enable calculations now impossible with classical methods.

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Michel H. Devoret, a physicist, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum mechanics conducted over 40 years ago.
While at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, he demonstrated quantum properties in visible circuits.
Devoret and his team at Google reported that their quantum computer executed an algorithm 13,000 times faster than a leading supercomputer.
Devoret anticipates larger quantum computers will enable calculations now impossible with classical methods.