Professor Sivakumar Srinivasan, Dean – Research and Professor, Physics, SIAS has penned an article in The Hindu titled 2025 physics Nobel Prize: the magic of quantum pervades all scales. Professor Srinivasan writes about how even though the laureates’ experiments were conducted in the mid-1980s, the ideas continue to spur research activities in many domains. He also sheds light on how their work emphasises the importance of basic research. Though the work’s original motivation was not quantum computing, its impact on the field amply demonstrates how basic research can foster technological innovations.
