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Clockwise from top left: Dr Glenn Wagner, Professor Steve Simon, Dr Yves Kwan, Professor Siddharth Parameswaran and Dr Nick Bultinck

Oxford theorists recognised with Frontiers of Science Award

A team of physicists from Oxford’s Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics has received a Frontiers of Science Award at the First International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing, China.

Dr Yves Kwan

Alumnus Dr Kwan recognised by IOP

Dr Yves Kwan has been named runner up in the Sam Edwards Thesis Prize awarded by the Institute of Physics’ Theory of Condensed Matter Group.

First visualisation of a topological pair density wave

Breakthrough identifies unprecedented state of topological quantum matter

Oxford researchers validate key features of a novel unconventional superconductor

Axion electrodynamics in a topological insulating crystal

Axion electrodynamics in a topological insulating crystal

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics, working alongside international collaborators, have identified a crystalline solid which satisfies the requirements to host an exotic axionic electrodynamic field.

Dr Nick Bultinck, left, and Dr James Matthews, right

Royal Society University Research Fellows join Physics

The Department of Physics is delighted to welcome two Royal Society University Research Fellows: Dr Nick Bultinck and Dr James Matthews.

12 December 2022

Close up of pressure cell

Pressure stabilises delicate electromagnetic state at room temperature

An international team of researchers has recently discovered that a subtle magnetic and electric hybrid response that is observed in some magnetic insulators can be strongly enhanced by application of pressure.

8 December 2022

Slide showing Dr Hariom Jani and his citation

Dr Jani recognised by Institute of Physics Singapore

Dr Hariom Jani has been awarded the Emerging Investigator Medal and Prize 2021 by the Institute of Physics Singapore.

18 October 2022

Professor JC Séamus Davis

Professor Séamus Davis awarded the Buckley Prize

Professor J C Séamus Davis has been awarded 2023 Oliver E Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society, one of the most prestigious awards in world science.

11 October 2022

Atomic-scale visualisation of superconductivity

‘Holy Grail’ physics discovery could open the way to super-efficient quantum electronics

An international team of researchers led by Professor JC Séamus Davis, has announced results that support one of the leading theories explaining the atomic-scale mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity

7 September 2022

Professor Amalia Coldea

Commentary: Professor Coldea on the quantum world of iron-based superconductors

Professor Amalia Coldea takes a look at the basics of superconductivity research, advances made in understanding iron-based superconductors and the challenge of room temperature superconductivity.

Illustration of a one dimensional moire pattern that emerges on twisting a two-dimensional crystal

Unusual new state of matter

Writing in Nature, a team of physicists including three from Oxford - DPhil student Yves Kwan and Professors Shivaji Sondhi and Sid Parameswaran – report the emergence of an unusual new state of matter in a newly-explored moiré system

Professor Stephen Blundell

Commentary: Professor Stephen Blundell on muons

Professor Stephen Blundell has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; here he writes about the science behind the award