Nobel Prizes this century and Physical Review

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Since 2000, 30% of all research leading to the Nobel Prize in Physics has been published in Physical Review Letters (PRL).

Moreover, for 13 consecutive years—2011 to 2023—one or more of the key papers authored by laureates cited by the Nobel committee in physics or chemistry was published in PRL. Articles from Physical Review, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review D, and Reviews of Modern Physics have also paved the way for Nobel-worthy advances in physics and related fields.

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: Macroscopic quantum tunneling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis, "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."

Read about APS members who are 2025 winners
Physical Review Letters

The lifetime 𝜏 of the zero-voltage state of a current-biased Josephson junction in the thermal limit has been measured in the presence of a weak microwave perturbation.

PRL 53, 1260 (1984)

Physical Review Letters

We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state.

PRL 55, 1543 (1985)

Physical Review Letters

The escape rate of an underdamped (𝑄≈30), current-biased Josephson junction from the zero-voltage state has been measured.

PRL 55, 1908 (1985)

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