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Peter Drmota has been awarded a University of Oxford EPSRC Doctoral Prize for his work in ion trap computing.

Oxford Ionics, a spin-out company from Oxford’s Department of Physics, has announced investment of £30 million in Series A funding from some of the world’s leading quantum and tech investors.

Professor David Deutsch, Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics at Oxford, is one of four pioneering physicists to receive the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for work in quantum information.

Scientists at the University of Oxford have been able to demonstrate a network of two entangled optical atomic clocks and show how the entanglement between the remote clocks can be used to improve their measurement precision.

Oxford team announced as winners of the second annual IBM Quantum Awards: Open Science Prize

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New research published in Nature explains how an international team of researchers have, for the first time, experimentally implemented a type of quantum cryptography considered to be the ‘ultimate’, ‘bug-proof’ means of communication.

The Department of Physics had two winners in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards.

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from Oxford’s Department of Physics has announced investment of £38 million (US $46.45 million) in the first close of an ongoing Series A funding round.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Department of Physics alumnus Kris Kaczmarek, Head of Product at ORCA Computing, has been named in the Forbes Under 30 Europe 2021 list. Now in its sixth year, the list identifies young innovators – visionaries – on the verge of making it big.

Five minutes with Jiri Kucera, graduate student in Atomic and Laser Physics