News in 2025
- Sam Cross receives 2025 Thesis Prize from the Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group 1 July 2025 Congratulations to Dr. Sam Cross from our Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, who has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group Thesis Prize. The prize is awarded to the author of the PhD thesis that makes the strongest contribution to the understanding of superconductivity within a given year.
- How best to infer inter-particle potentials from structure information? 20 March 2025 Emeritus Professor Bob Evans in Theoretical Physics along with collaborators at the University of Bayreuth have introduced a powerful machine learning method for extracting effective interaction potentials from structural data on liquids, that could prove important in soft matter design.
- Speeding up quantum measurement using space-time trade-off 28 February 2025 Bristol researchers, in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team from Oxford and Strathclyde, have introduced a new scheme for speeding up quantum measurements, a vital building block for quantum technologies. This has been published in Physical Review Letters and been chosen as an “Editor’s suggestion”.
- Dr. Shuqiu Wang Earns UKRI New Investigator Award to Advance Quantum Materials Research 19 February 2025 The School of Physics' very own Dr. Shuqiu Wang, Lecturer in Quantum Materials, has been awarded a prestigious UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award. The £942,830 grant will support Wang's frontier research into visualizing and understanding the complex interplay between electron correlations, topology, and magnetism in quantum materials over the next three years.
- Bristol Theoretical Physicists have work published in the NewScientist 8 January 2025 The School of Physics' very own Professor Sandy Popescu and Dr. Daniel Collins have had some of their work around quantum innovation around the multiverse posted in the NewScientist.