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              Illustration by Brian Long
          Artist's concept illustration showing a two-dimensional collection of interacting spins in a diamond lattice. 
      
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              Illustration Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
          UCSB physics professors John Martinis, left, and Michel Devoret
      
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              Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory
          The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment
      
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              Jeff Liang
          Gary Horowitz
      
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Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope
      
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              M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration
          Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 billion years ago
      
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              Lyn Photography
          Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu
      
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              Used with permission from Microsoft
          Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q's 2025 conference
      
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              Fangzhou ZhaoI, Van de Walle group
          Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions. 
      
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              Jeff Liang
          Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller