Physicist Arkady Fedorov: “I personally contributed to the development of the quantum computer”

This month, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to three scientists: John Clark, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. Their experiments demonstrated quantum physics in action. Let's look into what the prize was awarded for with Dr. Arkady Fedorov, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland.

Arkady Fedorov. Credit: From Arkady Fedorov's archive.

Key Points

• The 2025 Nobel Prize was awarded “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and quantization of energy in an electrical circuit”.
• It caught up with its recipients 40 years after conducting experiments at the University of Berkeley.

The podcast guest, physicist Arkady Fedorov, calls himself “a student of Nobel laureates' students”. He was educated in Saint Petersburg, worked in Zurich, came to Brisbane in 2014 and opened Australia's first laboratory that experiments with superconducting quantum bits.

Credit: ©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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