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An international team has introduced a novel class of twistable quantum materials, opening up a broader landscape for quantum simulation and discovery.

Events and activities across the Department of Physics are ensuring that people of all ages get to know about how quantum will potentially impact their lives.

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.

Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS, recently appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute (OQI), has also been named a member of the National Quantum Strategic Advisory Board.

Professor Ian Walmsley CBE FRS has been appointed Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute at Oxford University.

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was one of the first women to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society 80 years ago. Emeritus Professor Mike Glazer was one of her last PhD students; here, he reflects on his time with her and her remarkable legacy.

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

Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have shown that terahertz light can induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal.

In a study published today in Nature Communications, researchers from the Quantum Magnetism group in the Department of Physics have developed an innovative approach to synthesise and study rare-earth magnetic materials.

Professor Stephen Blundell from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has been awarded the 2024 Institute of Physics Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize.

Muhammad Hamza Waseem has won the MPLS Public Engagement with Research Award for his innovative approach to teaching quantum science to high school students.

Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the European Physical Society’s Europhysics Prize 2024 for his pioneering studies of photo-induced emergent phases of quantum materials.