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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis

"for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and the quantization of energy in an electric circuit."

Related research activities carried out by faculty members of the doctoral college and students of the UNIME Physics PhD program:

The University of Messina's Physics PhD program is very active in this field of research and collaborates with centers of excellence and prestigious international institutions. Below are some recent publications on these topics:

• Strong coupling between a single-photon and a two-photon Fock state, Nature Communications 16, 8730 (2025)

• Spectral properties of two superconducting artificial atoms coupled to a resonator in the ultrastrong coupling regime, Nature Communications 16 5294 (2025) 

• Probing the symmetry breaking of a light–matter system by an ancillary qubit, Nature Communications 14, 4397 (2023)

• Ultrastrong coupling between light and matter, Nature Reviews Physics 1, 19–40 (2019)

• Resolution of gauge ambiguities in ultrastrong-coupling cavity quantum electrodynamics, Nature Physics 15, 803–808 (2019)