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The Living Optics team standing together outside their new offices in Milton Park

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

Oxford Ionics co-founders, Dr Tom Harty, left, and Dr Chris Ballance, right

Investment funding for Physics spin-out Oxford Ionics

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.

10 January 2023

National Ignition Facility cryogenic target

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

AWAKE experiment, CERN

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

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

Emily Archer

Meet...Emily Archer

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

Professor David Deutsch

Professor David Deutsch awarded Breakthrough Prize

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.

22 September 2022

Illustration showing quantum clocks

A quantum network of entangled atomic clocks

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.

8 September 2022

Clockwise from left: Ben Jaderberg, Abhishek Agarwal and Tom O'Leary

Oxford team wins IBM quantum prize

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

Meet...Thomas Hird

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

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.