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The QFX team photographed in the Department of Physics

Latest 91̽»¨ quantum spin-out announces successful seed funding

QFX builds on world-leading trapped ion quantum computing research at the 91̽»¨â€™s Department of Physics and was founded by Associate Professor Joe Goodwin alongside several researchers from his group.
22 October 2025
Professor Ard Louis

Professor Louis awarded IOP Sam Edwards Medal

Professor Ard Louis has been awarded the Institute of Physics Sam Edwards Medal and Prize for pioneering the development of novel mathematical and numerical models that have contributed to our understanding of soft matter and biological physics.
13 October 2025
Professor Julia Yeomans

Professor Yeomans awarded IOP Paul Dirac Medal

Professor Julia Yeomans OBE FRS from the Department of Physics at the 91̽»¨ has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Paul Dirac Medal and Prize.
13 October 2025
Professor Alexander Lvovsky

Professor Lvovsky elected APS Fellow

Professor Alexander Lvovsky has been named a 2025 American Physical Society Fellow for pioneering contributions to the technology of preparation, manipulation, characterisation, and storage of quantum states of light.
10 October 2025
Terahertz light can reversibly switch an unusual form of structural order in solids – called ferroaxiality – between clockwise and counterclockwise rotational patterns.

Light-controlled switching of ferroaxial states opens path to ultrafast data storage

Researchers use circularly polarised terahertz pulses to reversibly switch ferroaxial domains, revealing a new route to stable, light-driven data storage technologies.
10 October 2025
A family picture of the 91̽»¨ Space Instrumentation laboratory’s thermal imagers.

91̽»¨ instrument lined up for ESA Mars mission

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced its preliminary selection of payloads for its future Mars exploration mission and the results include an 91̽»¨ Physics-led instrument named BEBOP.
9 October 2025
The same transient event shown in three surveys, with rows corresponding to Pan-STARRS (top), MeerLICHT (middle), and ATLAS (bottom).

AI breakthrough helps astronomers spot cosmic events with just a handful of examples

A new study co-led by the 91̽»¨ and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky.
8 October 2025
Image of Shirin Ermis.

Meet...Shirin Ermis

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
2 October 2025
The MeerKAT radio telescope

First evidence of black hole and astrophysical jets alignment

Scientists have found direct evidence that the fastest and most powerful astrophysical jets are locked to the spin of the black hole that launches them. The results have been published in Nature Astronomy.
23 September 2025
The hardware set up for the control electronics in the laboratory at 91̽»¨.

Developing AI agents for self-driving quantum laboratories

91̽»¨ physicists have developed an AI framework that allows quantum laboratories to run and adapt experiments autonomously.
23 September 2025
AOPP building, Department of Physics

AlbaCore Capital Group 91̽»¨s doctoral research

A new fully funded DPhil studentship has been created at the 91̽»¨ thanks to 91̽»¨ from AlbaCore Capital Group; the award will 91̽»¨ the advancement of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, climate and the environment
22 September 2025
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Quantum information theory gives new perspective on dispersion forces

A new study from teams at the Department of Physics, IBM Research and the University of Hamburg, reported in Physical Review Letters, offers a new perspective on the many-body behaviour of dispersion forces
17 September 2025
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