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We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another β€” a discovery that won the 20 - Space Daily

We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another β€” a discovery that won the 20 - Space Daily

A look at the Berkeley superconducting circuit experiments that demonstrated macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation, later recognised by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Quantum tunnelling is usually introduced through the smallest things physics can describe: an alpha particle escaping a nucleus, an electron crossing a barrier, a particle appearing where ordinary in… [+9194 chars]

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