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Professor Amalia Coldea

Commentary: Professor Coldea on the quantum world of iron-based superconductors

Professor Amalia Coldea takes a look at the basics of superconductivity research, advances made in understanding iron-based superconductors and the challenge of room temperature superconductivity.
23 June 2022
Illustration of a one dimensional moire pattern that emerges on twisting a two-dimensional crystal

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
Professor Stephen Blundell

Commentary: Professor Stephen Blundell on muons

Professor Stephen Blundell has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; here he writes about the science behind the award
26 April 2022
Sally Lord

Meet...Sally Lord

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
1 February 2022
Professor JC Séamus Davis

AAAS recognition for Professor JC Séamus Davis

Professor JC Séamus Davis has been elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
26 January 2022
Griffiths phase

Discovery of new electronic phase of quantum matter

Physicists at Oxford have discovered a new electronic phase of quantum matter relating to a quantum Griffiths phase where the typical quantum mechanical correspondence between time and space breaks down.
20 December 2021
Electrical control of quantum spins in molecular nanomagnets

Milestone for molecular quantum tech

A team from Oxford’s Department of Physics, in collaboration with Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) at the University of Valencia, has demonstrated electrical control of quantum spins in molecular nanomagnets.
14 October 2021
Professor Shivaji Sondhi

Eminent theoretical physicist joins Oxford

The Department of Physics is delighted to confirm the appointment of Professor Shivaji Sondhi to the University’s Wykeham Professorship of Physics, a Leverhulme International Professorship, and the Tencent Chair of Theoretical Physics.
26 August 2021
Selenium atoms

Major advance in study of quantum materials

Professor JC Séamus Davis has discovered that an elusive state of quantum matter is in fact a ubiquitous and important property of nature – not a unique phenomenon in the cuprates
25 June 2021

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