chrysander

Their new paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28627 reduces the number of required qubits to break various cryptography algorithms by more than an order of magnitude.

And Girvin as the third one of their Yale effort!

More than deserved!

Both Devoret and Martinis are also highly involved in pushing quantum engineering to new levels - Devoret at Google Quantum AI and Martinis (formerly at Google) with his company, Qolab.

Coincidentally, I have a close friend doing his PhD with Devoret and know someone working with Martinis. I am curious to see if they will ever see their respective supervisors again, given that the Nobel Prize attention will likely garner them countless invitations for talks and keynotes...

https://archive.ph/zWbyn

Very much my undergrad lab education experience...

I currently write my master's thesis in experimental quantum computing - the platform is similar to what Google published in December, just with less qubits. A lot of it just comes down to how much money the lab can spend to get the best equipment and how good your fabrication is.

You can have the best minds in experimental physics, but without the right equipment the grad students are just busy trying to make things work somehow and waste months if not years away.

I was about to suggest this as well - great game! Maybe you want to add https://games.oec.world/en/tradle/ to the routine