Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience - Alumni Industry Schools, prospective students and community Research Undergraduates Graduates International Year of Quantum Department of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme - Accelerator physics Astronomy and astrophysics Biological physics Climate physics Exoplanets and planetary physics Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics Fundamental particles and interactions Instrumentation Lasers and high energy density science Particle astrophysics & cosmology Photovoltaics and nanoscience Plasma physics Quantum information and computation Quantum materials Quantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department - Astrophysics Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Atomic and Laser Physics Condensed Matter Physics Particle Physics Professional and support services Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Meet...Jacob Blackmore We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 May 2025 Dr Blackmore awarded Quantum Technology Fellowship Dr Jacob Blackmore from the Department of Physics is one of 11 recipients of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowship, awarded to the most promising early career researchers in the UK. 14 April 2025 New MSc in Quantum Technologies: the future of quantum Oxford University’s brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies is an innovative interdisciplinary course that provides students with a technical overview of modern quantum technologies for computing, sensing and communications. 18 February 2025 Quantum-inspired computing drives major advance in simulating turbulence Researchers at the University of Oxford have pioneered a new approach to simulate turbulent systems, based on probabilities. The findings have been published today in the journal Science Advances. 29 January 2025 Commentary: Professor Parameswaran on the frontiers of quantum physics Professor Siddharth Parameswaran from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded a much sought-after European Research Council Consolidator Grant; he shares his plans for his future research. 23 April 2024 Scaling perspective on a 2-D quantum gas Experimental physicists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, along with theorists from the University of Hamburg, have made a new observation of vortex-antivortex unbinding dynamics. 29 November 2023 Dr Hird and Dr Shirley recognised by SEPnet Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023. 2 October 2023 Meet...Thomas Hird We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 August 2022 Making an impact The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards. 11 July 2022 Péter Juhász to present research in Parliament Péter Juhász is to present his physics research in Parliament to a panel of expert judges and politicians, as one of the finalists in STEM for BRITAIN 2022. 24 February 2022 A quantum-inspired perspective on turbulence A recent publication in Nature Computational Science describes a new route of attack on the yet unsolved problem of turbulence. 13 January 2022 Meet...Elliot Bentine We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 4 November 2021 Load More
Meet...Jacob Blackmore We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 May 2025
Dr Blackmore awarded Quantum Technology Fellowship Dr Jacob Blackmore from the Department of Physics is one of 11 recipients of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowship, awarded to the most promising early career researchers in the UK. 14 April 2025
New MSc in Quantum Technologies: the future of quantum Oxford University’s brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies is an innovative interdisciplinary course that provides students with a technical overview of modern quantum technologies for computing, sensing and communications. 18 February 2025
Quantum-inspired computing drives major advance in simulating turbulence Researchers at the University of Oxford have pioneered a new approach to simulate turbulent systems, based on probabilities. The findings have been published today in the journal Science Advances. 29 January 2025
Commentary: Professor Parameswaran on the frontiers of quantum physics Professor Siddharth Parameswaran from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded a much sought-after European Research Council Consolidator Grant; he shares his plans for his future research. 23 April 2024
Scaling perspective on a 2-D quantum gas Experimental physicists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, along with theorists from the University of Hamburg, have made a new observation of vortex-antivortex unbinding dynamics. 29 November 2023
Dr Hird and Dr Shirley recognised by SEPnet Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023. 2 October 2023
Meet...Thomas Hird We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 August 2022
Making an impact The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards. 11 July 2022
Péter Juhász to present research in Parliament Péter Juhász is to present his physics research in Parliament to a panel of expert judges and politicians, as one of the finalists in STEM for BRITAIN 2022. 24 February 2022
A quantum-inspired perspective on turbulence A recent publication in Nature Computational Science describes a new route of attack on the yet unsolved problem of turbulence. 13 January 2022
Meet...Elliot Bentine We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 4 November 2021
