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A research study led by Oxford University has developed a powerful new technique for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing.

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

Professor Siddharth Parameswaran from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded a much sought-after European Research Council Consolidator Grant; he shares his plans for his future research.

Professor Fabrizio Caola has been awarded a sought-after ERC Consolidator Grant; he talks about his quest to develop extremely sophisticated theoretical predictions to match the exquisite precision of the LHC data…

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.

The Department of Physics and Mathematical Institute will benefit from STFC's £20 million investment in theoretical physics.

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.

In a letter published in Physical Review Letters, Dr Berislav Buca claims: an egg can actually unscramble itself – if it is quantum.

Professor JC Séamus Davis has been elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).