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An international team of researchers led by Professor JC Séamus Davis, has announced results that support one of the leading theories explaining the atomic-scale mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity

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.

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

Professor Stephen Blundell has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant; here he writes about the science behind the award

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

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.

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.

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.

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