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Georgy Karpenko shares his experience working on iconic projects around the world, discusses the influence of different ...

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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their work on quantum mechanics that is paving the way for a new generation of very powerful ...

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Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

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John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm observable at a larger scale. By Katrina Miller and Ali Watkins John Clarke, ...

A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in physics for work that enabled the creation of macroscopic quantum systems, a foundation of quantum computers and other technology. John Clarke, ...