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Center for Nonlinear Studies |
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. This will be a general talk intended for physicists and non-physicists to discuss fundamental physical aspects, implications, and impact of this discovery.
Bio: Dr. Jian-Xin Zhu received his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Hong Kong in 1997. After doing research as a postdoctoral fellow/research assistant professor at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston and a Director’s Funded postdoctoral fellow at LANL, Zhu became a staff member at LANL in 2004. He became the group leader of Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics (formerly Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems) in 2024. Zhu is a Laboratory Fellow and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interest includes strong correlation and topology with electronic structure simulations, as well as quantum matter out of equilibrium.