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Secure cryptography with real-world devices is now a realistic possibility

Secure cryptography with real-world devices is now a realistic possibility

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.

Elliot Bentine and Thomas Hird

Making an impact

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

Two people with scientific instrument

Physics spin-out gets investment injection

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.

Professor Vlatko Vedral

Meet...Vlatko Vedral

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

Kris Kaczmarek

From physics and photons to Forbes

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.

Jiri Kucera

Meet...Jiri Kucera

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