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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 by Roark66 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:24AM (#45502249)
Exactly, also in it's goal to "demonstrate quantum tunneling macroscopically" haven't we had tunneling diodes for quite a while? The device uses tunneling for its basic functionality
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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 by NetMageSCW on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @10:09AM (#45503247)
In those cases doesn’t the tunneling occur one electron at a time, and so not macroscopic?
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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 by IAmBroom on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:34PM (#45506177)
I thought this too, at first. Then I read the article, and discovered it was about more than Josephson gaps and Schottky diodes.
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