Yale physics professor Devoret receives major European award.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 April 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale physics professor Devoret receives major European award(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04292004 New Haven, Conn. -- The European Physical Society has awarded the 2004 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize to Michel Devoret, Yale Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, and to three other scientists for the "realization and demonstration of the quantum bit concept based on superconducting circuits." The superconducting electrical circuits that Devoret and his collaborators invented obey principles of quantum physics rather than classical Newtonian physics, the basis for electrical circuits in current computers.

Laws of quantum physics maintain that an object can be in two locations at the same...