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We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. We meet Rachael, Programme Director for the Oxford Quantum Institute.

An international team including Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time.

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has closed a £260 million Series C funding round — the largest ever raised by a quantum computing company in Europe.

Researchers generate cat-like superpositions built from highly nonclassical quantum components.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new type of quantum interaction using a single trapped ion.

Having celebrated the International Year of Quantum last year, here we speak to people across the Department of Physics to find out how they found their way into quantum, what their days look like now, and how they see the field changing.

Professor David Lucas from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is to lead one of three new UKRI-funded projects as part of a commitment to deepen the science and tech ties between the UK and Japan.

The Quantum Advantage in Quantitative Quantum Simulation programme, led by the University of Oxford, is advancing analogue quantum simulation to ensure quantum systems can deliver a practical advantage to science or industry.

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

As we near the end of the International Year of Quantum, we ask experimental physicist William Cutler to break it down for us...what exactly is quantum computing?

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.