Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesInternational Year of QuantumDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics New offices for Department of Physics spin-out Having completed its second series A funding round at the end of 2022, Living Optics, a spin-out from the Department of Physics has just established new offices. 15 February 2023 Ignition achieved at the National Ignition Facility At the world's largest laser facility, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) ‘breakeven’ has been obtained for the first time meaning that the amount of energy released by fusion products exceeded the energy used to initiate the thermonuclear reactions. 13 December 2022 Oxford to play key role in pioneering experiment at CERN The John Adams Institute, part of the Department of Physics, is one of the beneficiaries of a major award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support the participation of UK institutions in CERN's AWAKE experiment. 31 October 2022 Professor Gianluca Gregori recognised by IOP Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize. 24 October 2022 Meet...Emily Archer We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022 Professor Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York. 20 June 2022 Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters 9 March 2022 Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022 Quantum Dice wins IOP business award Oxford University spin-out, Quantum Dice, has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Business Start-up Award 2021. 18 November 2021 Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators A team from Oxford has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in 9 November 2021 Inauguration of new beamline at European XFEL In a milestone for high energy density physics, a new beamline at the European X-Ray Laser (XFEL), was officially opened yesterday, 31 August 2021. 1 September 2021 Laser fusion at the threshold of ignition The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US has reached the threshold of realising controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory 18 August 2021 Load More
New offices for Department of Physics spin-out Having completed its second series A funding round at the end of 2022, Living Optics, a spin-out from the Department of Physics has just established new offices. 15 February 2023
Ignition achieved at the National Ignition Facility At the world's largest laser facility, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) ‘breakeven’ has been obtained for the first time meaning that the amount of energy released by fusion products exceeded the energy used to initiate the thermonuclear reactions. 13 December 2022
Oxford to play key role in pioneering experiment at CERN The John Adams Institute, part of the Department of Physics, is one of the beneficiaries of a major award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support the participation of UK institutions in CERN's AWAKE experiment. 31 October 2022
Professor Gianluca Gregori recognised by IOP Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize. 24 October 2022
Meet...Emily Archer We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 6 October 2022
Professor Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York. 20 June 2022
Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters 9 March 2022
Dr Chappell awarded Culham Thesis Prize Dr James Chappell from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize: Plasma Physics Group. 14 February 2022
Quantum Dice wins IOP business award Oxford University spin-out, Quantum Dice, has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Business Start-up Award 2021. 18 November 2021
Improving repetition rate of laser-driven plasma accelerators A team from Oxford has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in 9 November 2021
Inauguration of new beamline at European XFEL In a milestone for high energy density physics, a new beamline at the European X-Ray Laser (XFEL), was officially opened yesterday, 31 August 2021. 1 September 2021
Laser fusion at the threshold of ignition The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US has reached the threshold of realising controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory 18 August 2021
