Chronicle: "Foot of the iceberg" of Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: ILTPE and LTP contribution

TL;DR

This paper discusses the significance of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in electric circuits, highlighting historical contributions and the role of Ukrainian scientists and publications.

Contribution

It provides a historical overview of key research in superconductivity and quantum physics, emphasizing Ukrainian scientists' contributions and the dissemination of results through ILTPE and LTP.

Findings

Recognition of Ukrainian scientists' contributions to quantum physics.

Highlighting the importance of ILTPE and LTP in scientific dissemination.

Contextualization of the Nobel-winning research within historical developments.

Abstract

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, John Martinis, and Michel Devoret for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit". The paper explains the essence of their studies and shows in a historical context the importance of earlier research in superconductivity and quantum physics of macroscopic systems by other physicists, particularly, Ukrainian scientists, including employees of the B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the NAS of Ukraine (ILTPE). The role of the Fizyka Nyzkykh Temperatur (FNT) journal issued by ILTPE in Kharkiv and its translation as AIP Low Temperature Physics (LTP) in dissemination of results of the theoretical and experimental studies in the field is emphasized as well.