John Matthew Martinis is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studied at Berkeley, where John Clarke supervised his doctorate on the quantum behaviour of a Josephson tunnel junction, and he later worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder. He led the team that built a superconducting quantum computer at the Google Quantum AI Lab, and in 2019 the team reported the first evidence of quantum supremacy with the 53-qubit Sycamore processor. He shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clarke and Michel Devoret for their work on macroscopic quantum phenomena in superconductors.
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John Matthew Martinis (born 1958)
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is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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He led a team to develop a superconducting quantum computer at the Quantum AI Lab.
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He shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and Michel Devoret
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is an American physicist
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is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Since 2004, Martinis has served on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara
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He led a team to develop a superconducting quantum computer at the Quantum AI Lab.
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