Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesInternational Year of QuantumDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 10 May 2022 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 4 May 2022 Commentary: Professor Ard Louis on symmetry in evolution Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper 28 March 2022 Oxford undergrads take second and third at PLANCKS 22 Oxford teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition 25 March 2022 EPS recognition for Dr Plamen Ivanov Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award. 21 March 2022 Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters 9 March 2022 Black hole billiards in the centres of galaxies Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. 9 March 2022 Using physics to transform our understanding of life Nine ambitious multidisciplinary projects will receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund including ‘Early-stage Embryo as an Active Self-tuning Soft Material’. 17 February 2022 Professor Yeomans recognised by IOP Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Sam Edwards Medal and Prize 2021 in recognition of her personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a profession. 29 November 2021 Professor Yeomans recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021. 2 November 2021 Obituary: Professor Graham Ross Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021. 2 November 2021 Commentary: Sherrington on Parisi and the Nobel Emeritus Wykeham Professor David Sherrington comments on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 2 November 2021 Load More
Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 10 May 2022
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 4 May 2022
Commentary: Professor Ard Louis on symmetry in evolution Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper 28 March 2022
Oxford undergrads take second and third at PLANCKS 22 Oxford teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition 25 March 2022
EPS recognition for Dr Plamen Ivanov Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award. 21 March 2022
Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma An international team led by the Department of Physics at Oxford, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters 9 March 2022
Black hole billiards in the centres of galaxies Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. 9 March 2022
Using physics to transform our understanding of life Nine ambitious multidisciplinary projects will receive funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Wellcome Physics of Life Strategic Priorities Fund including ‘Early-stage Embryo as an Active Self-tuning Soft Material’. 17 February 2022
Professor Yeomans recognised by IOP Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Sam Edwards Medal and Prize 2021 in recognition of her personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a profession. 29 November 2021
Professor Yeomans recognised by Royal Society of Chemistry Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021. 2 November 2021
Obituary: Professor Graham Ross Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021. 2 November 2021
Commentary: Sherrington on Parisi and the Nobel Emeritus Wykeham Professor David Sherrington comments on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 2 November 2021
