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Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the German Physical Society’s 2026 Stern-Gerlach Medal for his pioneering work on light-based control of quantum materials.

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An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma 'fireballs' using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN, Geneva, to study the stability of plasma jets emanating from blazars.

Dr Alex Picksley, a former DPhil student in Oxford’s Department of Physics and St John’s College (2017–2021), has been awarded the 2025 Simon van der Meer Early Career Award in Novel Accelerators.

Professor Peter Norreys has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to fundamental studies of high energy density plasmas using high power petawatt-class lasers.

The University of Oxford's brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies had its official launch last week.

QFX builds on world-leading trapped ion quantum computing research at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and was founded by Associate Professor Joe Goodwin alongside several researchers from his group.

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.

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

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.

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…

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.