Chateando con la Ciencia: María José Martínez Pérez, from INMA
Lecture: When circuits pass through walls: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
X Lecture Series “Chatting with Science”
Did you know that your mobile phone works thanks to a phenomenon that “defies” the laws of classical physics? Quantum tunnelling is a quantum behaviour that allows particles to pass through barriers that should be impossible to cross. This discovery, which applied this behaviour to large-scale electrical circuits, earned John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
In this session, we will discover how these experiments laid the foundations for quantum computing, enabling this technology to move from theory to a reality that will change the world.
- Speaker: María José Martínez Pérez, Scientific Researcher at the CSIC in the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA) and winner of the 2025 National Research Award for Young People.
- Date: Thursday, 19 March 2026.
- Time: 19:00.
- Format: Video-conference (attendance limited to 100 participants).
Registration: To attend, please request an access code by emailing palacio@unizar.es before 18 March.
Organised by: Real Zaragoza Club de Tenis in collaboration with the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA).
