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Professor Alexander Lvovsky

Professor Lvovsky elected APS Fellow

Professor Alexander Lvovsky has been named a 2025 American Physical Society Fellow for pioneering contributions to the technology of preparation, manipulation, characterisation, and storage of quantum states of light.
10 October 2025
Gecko

Quantum information theory gives new perspective on dispersion forces

A new study from teams at the Department of Physics, IBM Research and the University of Hamburg, reported in Physical Review Letters, offers a new perspective on the many-body behaviour of dispersion forces
17 September 2025
Image from Ultracold Quantum Matter laboratory

Simulating the strange world of quantum mechanics

Researchers at the Department of Physics are simulating the strange, probabilistic world of quantum mechanics, opening the door to new innovations for superconductors, materials science, and quantum technologies.
16 September 2025
Sebastian Saner wearing his 'DIY DPhil hat'

The alternative world of quantum: the PhD hat

Oana Bazavan on being a quantum physicist; here she shares an insight into the rollercoaster journey of gaining a doctorate as she explains the tradition of your postdoctoral DIY hat…
28 August 2025
Artist’s illustration of the RAVEN technique, which measures a complex light pulse using micro foci and spectral dispersion, which is then fed into a neural network for retrieval.

New technique for capturing ultra-intense laser pulses in a single shot

Physicists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense laser pulses in a single measurement.
26 June 2025
Quantum lab

New world record for qubit operation accuracy

Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation – just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations.
9 June 2025
Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarise the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser beam to be generated, with a unique direction and colour, which conserves momemtum and energy.

Oxford physicists recreate extreme quantum vacuum effects

Physicists have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space – a phenomenon once thought to belong to science fiction; the findings pave the way for real-world laser facilities to experimentally confirm bizarre quantum phenomena.
5 June 2025
Dr Sridevi Kuriyattil

A day in the life of a quantum physicist

What is quantum physics? And what exactly does a quantum physicist do every day? We speak to Dr Sridevi Kuriyattil to find out more.
15 May 2025
Laser table

Professor Walmsley joins government’s Quantum Strategic Advisory Board

Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS, recently appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute (OQI), has also been named a member of the National Quantum Strategic Advisory Board.
14 May 2025
Dr Jacob Blackmore

Meet...Jacob Blackmore

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 May 2025
Dr Jacob Blackmore

Dr Blackmore awarded Quantum Technology Fellowship

Dr Jacob Blackmore from the Department of Physics is one of 11 recipients of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowship, awarded to the most promising early career researchers in the UK.
14 April 2025
People around blackboard

New MSc in Quantum Technologies: the future of quantum

Oxford University’s brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies is an innovative interdisciplinary course that provides students with a technical overview of modern quantum technologies for computing, sensing and communications.
18 February 2025
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