School of Physics academics, researchers and PhD students have encountered an intriguing particle interaction in their search for dark matter, which might help pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe.
School of Physics academics, researchers and PhD students have encountered an intriguing particle interaction in their search for dark matter, which might help pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe.
A Bristol researcher, in collaboration with a physicist from Valencia, Spain, has established a novel thermodynamic method to test quantum advantages, which are central to quantum science and technologies. This has been jointly published in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A.
The School of Physics at the HH Wills Building has recently supported local science education through the donation of surplus laboratory glassware to Oasis Academy Brightstowe.
Professor Tom Scott, from the School of Physics' Interface Analysis Centre, has recently been interviewed for a Channel 4 Documentary on Fukushima.
Rhys Morris, from the School of Physics' Astrophysics group, is part of an international collaboration that have made an unexpected discovery of a massive bar of Iron crossing the Ring Nebula.
A huge congratulations to University of Bristol Emeritus Professor, Sir Michael Berry, who has been awarded the Institute of Physics prestigious Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture for the year 2025.
Many congratulations to Dr. Sven Friedemann of the Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, who has been awarded the Brian Pippard Prize, a prize for scientists working in the UK who has made a significant contribution to superconductivity in recent years.
We are delighted to announce that our very own Dr. Shuqiu Wang, of the Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, has been successfully awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Fellowship, to develop a new type of quantum microscope to discover new phases of quantum matter for novel energy-efficient electronic applications.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Isobel Romero-Shaw, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in our Astrophysics research theme, has been awarded a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
The School of Physics' very own Dr. Hannah Wakeford has won a prestigious national accolade to help further unravel the mysterious world of exoplanets.
Dr. Jonathan Buhot, from our Quantum & Soft Matter research theme, has been awarded an EPSRC Open Fellowship to undertake research within the School of Physics on hydride superconductors.
Over the summer, Dr. James Drewitt, Alegra Skare, and Dr. Adrian Barnes have developed a new acoustic levitation system called MultiLev, designed for dynamic positioning of multiple samples in mid-air.
An exciting new article on superconductivity has been published in Science Advances, co-authored by School of Physics academics Dr. Sven Friedemann, Dr. Felix Flicker, Dr. Jonathan Buhot and Dr. Jake Ayres
In new research physicists have wielded the power of chess to design a group of intricate mazes, which could ultimately be used to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
We are very excited to announce our Climate Action Event in the School of Physics will be on Friday 26th April
The University of Bristol is celebrating nine Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) which will equip and nurture engineering and science students, thanks to a nationally-leading £57 million funding boost from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and its Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Come along to the most imminent of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Come along to the most imminent of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Come along to the most imminent of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
This article details the full list of Colloquia scheduled for the Spring 2024 season, with all the available relevant information for each session included.
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Come along to the fifth of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Come along to the fourth of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Come along to the third of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
Come along to the second of our Chaos Lectures; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
Posted here is the full schedule of talks convened by Chaos taking place across TB1.
The School of Physics is celebrating the announcement that they have achieved two gender equality awards; the Juno Champion and Silver Athena Swan Award.
Come along to the inaugural Chaos Lecture; a series of talks that will be held on Thursdays at 6pm. Further details will be posted here and through Chaos social media (@bristolchaos on Instragram).
A public lecture by Emeritus Professor in Radio Astronomy J.M. van der Hulst, highlighting the importance of radio astronomy to society
Tam's work focused on 'Charge Density Waves in Infinite-layer Nickelates' and was awarded for its outstanding contribution to the field.
Since 2009, the European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL) has awarded the annual EMFL Prize to an individual “for outstanding achievements in science done in high magnetic fields”.
A pioneering satellite mission to map and help unravel the mysteries of the universe will launch this week, with University of Bristol researchers playing a pivotal role in the project.
This seminar is on the topic of RIXS as a means to study complex interactions in correlated electronic systems. It will be presented by Qisi Wang (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This seminar is on the topic of density functional theory in tandem with local electron correlations from dynamical mean field theory. It will be presented by Dr. Alyn James.
An invitation to attend an extra special edition of our Physics Colloquium series, with Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor, Prof. Maxwell Chertok (University of California, Davis).
Read the May 2023 edition of the Materials and Devices newsletter.
This article details the full list of Colloquia scheduled for the Spring 2023 season, with all the relevant information for each session included.
The event will be a night of food and entertainment - tickets are available to purchase now.
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
This seminar is on the topic of superconducting spintronics and their future applications in information and quantum technologies. It will be presented by Dr. Niladri Banerjee (Imperial College London).
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
This seminar is on the electron-phonon problem and its effect on our comprehension of conventional metals and superconductors. It will be presented by Professor Steven Kivelson (Stanford University).
Dr Takeshi Kondo (University of Tokyo) will be giving a presentation titled 'The doped Mott state and pseudo-gap of cuprate high-Tc superconductors studied by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy'.
Join us in a lecture titled 'From Studying Quarks to Beating Cancer: An upbeat story about death and destruction', presented by Professor Jaap Velthuis.
The goal of the garden is to improve the biodiversity of the area and make it more attractive to wildlife.
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
This journal club will be conducted by Sven Friedemann on the article 'Evidence of near-ambient superconductivity in a N-doped lutetium hydride'.
The theme for International Women's Day this year (Wednesday 8 March 2023) is #EmbraceEquity. As an institution, we are committed to embracing equity not just on this day, but everyday. See which events the School of Physics are hosting to celebrate.
Read the February 2023 edition of the Materials and Devices newsletter
Sixth-form students with a keen interest in physics are welcome to join us for our annual Masterclass workshop.
This seminar is about the heavy-Fermion superconductor UTe2. It will be presented by Toni Helm (HLD-EMFL and Helmholtz Zentrum, Dresden).
This seminar is on the measurement of stress-strain relationships within quantum materials. It will be presented by Dr. Clifford Hicks (University of Birmingham).
This seminar is on effective attraction between electrons. It will be presented by Christian Eckhardt (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter).
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
An invitation to attend the next event in our Physics Colloquium series.
This seminar is on the role of impurities in the phenomenology of overdoped cuprates. It will be presented by Professor David Broun (Simon Fraser University).
Read the January 2023 edition of the Materials and Devices newsletter.
The team behind the UK’s first female urinal have raised £250,000 in their first funding round, as they strive to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women and make long queues for the ladies a thing of the past.
In conversation with Professor Tom Scott (School of Physics) and Dr Paul Harper, theme leads at the Cabot Institute
Angus Siberry, a PhD student from the School of Physics, was awarded the Best Presentation prize at the recent TRANSCEND consortium conference, sponsored by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
The University of Bristol has been awarded £505,000 R&D funding, as part of the UK Japan Civil Nuclear Programme to develop laser contamination cleaning techniques for nuclear industry applications.
On Wednesday 27th of October we hosted a training and collaboration session for a group of Undergraduate Physics Students who have volunteered to help with upcoming Circus & Physics workshops.
A big congratulations to Dr Siân Fussell, a recent BCFN graduate, who has recently been awarded the Faculty Doctoral Prize for best doctoral thesis.
Associate Professor Jonathan Matthews has been awarded the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize for physics.
The University of Bristol is among fifteen organisations who have secured UKAEA contracts to demonstrate how their innovative solutions and technologies can contribute to the development of commercial fusion energy.
A UK-Ukraine team will implement a low-cost environmental and aerosol monitoring provision inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for fire monitoring and risk management.
Physics researchers will lead one of six new projects looking at novel ways to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, by advancing tritium technology for fusion power stations.
Superconductivity in cuprates: ‘from maximal to minimal dissipation’ - a new paradigm? Researchers from the School of Physics used some of Europe’s strongest continuous magnetic fields to uncover evidence of exotic charge carriers in the metallic state of copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors (high-Tc cuprates). Their results have been published last week in Nature [1]. In a related publication in SciPost Physics the week before [2], members from the same team postulated that it is these exotic charge carriers that form the superconducting pairs, in marked contrast with expectations from conventional theory.
The School recently had its audit for the Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) Green Impact awards for 2021 and we are very pleased to announce that we have achieved a Gold award for HH Wills Physics Lab this year.
The University of Bristol has become the first University in the world to achieve institutional Green Labs certification – this is an incredible achievement for the University and the wider STEM community.
Jonathan is a Physics Ph.D. student at the University of Bristol and focuses on an alternative method to assessing coral health using Hyperspectral Reflectance and Fluorescence Imaging. Read more about his work below.
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, SweGaN AB, and the University of Bristol are partnering in the European Space Agency funded Kassiopeia project. The teams join forces to develop high-performance Ka-band GaN MMICs (monolithic microwave integrated circuits). Applications for these devices include beam steering antennas for satellite communications and radar applications.
Professor Tom Scott has been appointed as Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Advancing the Fusion Energy Fuel Cycle.
As part of the University of Bristol's activities for the Climate Day of Action on Friday 26th Feb 2021, the School of Physics held a panel discussion on Physics and Climate.
A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) award is empowering the Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability (CDTR) at the University of Bristol to create a resilient and sustainable electricity grid with the use of next-generation ultra-wide bandgap materials and devices.
A new paper, released online this week and to be published in Materials and Design, discusses an investigation of the microstructure and mechanical behaviour of simulant “lava-like” fuel that contained materials from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant reactor unit 4.
A new paper, published today in Nature NPJ Materials Degradation, discusses the use of in -situ High Speed Atom Force Microscopy (HS-AFM) observations in combination with complementary techniques to measure in situ stress corrosion cracking.
A new paper, published today in Nature Physics, reports a new aspect of high temperature superconductivity.
Professor Martin Kuball, Director of the Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability (CDTR), has been elected as Fellow of the world’s largest and most prestigious professional association for the advancement of technology, the IEEE.
Members of the Astrophysics group braved the cold to view the transit of Mercury across the Sun on 11th November. These transits occur when a celestial body passes between the Earth and the Sun, and the object's silhouette is visible against the disk of the Sun.
The Interface Analysis Centre has led successful bids for three National Nuclear User Facility bids covering robotics, microscopy and materials research.
This academic year has been one of ‘tries’ and highs for University of Bristol student and professional rugby player, Joshua Ibuanokpe, who will graduate this week with a degree in Physics.
Sixteen researchers from across the UK came to the University of Bristol from the 25th – 28th June 2019, and were thrown into the world of science commercialisation through the Start Something: Launchpad programme.
Professor Stephen Hayden from the University of Bristol’s School of Physics has been awarded the prestigious Mott Medal from the Institute of Physics (IOP) for his distinguished contributions to condensed matter physics.
Through the analysis of sub-mm particulate sourced from the environment, new research published today in Nature Communications by scientists from the University of Bristol, Diamond Light Source and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has identified specific fallout particles from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the environment that give insights into the events that occurred in reactor Unit 1.
Interface Analysis Centre PhD student Jolene Cook wins award at a recent conference held in Bristol.
Dr Peter Martin of the Interface Analysis Centre has had his PhD thesis published by Springer in their series recognising outstanding PhD research.
A team of researchers from the School of Physics and the Faculty of Engineering has completed the most comprehensive survey yet of Chernobyl’s Red Forest – one of the most radioactive sites on Earth.
The University has been awarded a 10th CDT in Interactive Artificial Intelligence, in today’s Government announcement.
Emeritus Professor John Fredrick Nye, internationally renowned physicist, died on 8 January 2019, a month before his 96th birthday. His colleague Emeritus Professor Michael Berry offers this tribute.
The QECDT is one of the 75 EPSRC Centres for Doctoral training which were successful in the recent refunding round, and one of nine CDTs going ahead at the University of Bristol.
Astronomers have found fresh evidence for significant planetary diversity within a single exoplanet system, suggesting that giant high-speed collisions are partly responsible for planetary evolution.
Several members of the South West Nuclear Hub are celebrating the renewal of the Nuclear Energy Futures Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), funded by EPSRC.
Dr Piotr Jacek Wolanin's thesis entitled "Functional Organic Nanomaterials for Field-Effect Transistors" has been singled out by examiners as an outstanding piece of work. See below for his bio and a bit about his time studying at the the BCFN
In October 2018 a team from the University of Bristol, led by RAIN researchers Professor Tom Scott and Dr Yannick Verbelen with Dr Chris Hutson and PhD student Dean Connor ventured to Japan, flying first to Osaka for a visit to collaboration partners at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI).
If wearable technologies are the future, a radioactive-busting robotic suit could represent yet one more dramatic step into the beyond.
The South West Nuclear Hub is the proud winner of an The Engineer Collaborate to Innovate Award, following a recent ceremony in London.
Each year one student on the MSc Nuclear Science and Engineering programme at the University of Bristol is able to undertake an exciting internship with Hitachi-GE in Japan.
The South West Nuclear Hub has recently celebrated the second anniversary of its doors opening and colleagues gathered in the David Smith Building to reflect on the success in addressing nuclear skills, research and innovation challenges so far.
A large programme of projects looking into nuclear decommissioning has been announced, that will see a consortium of 11 universities collaborate with industry on over 40 projects with funding totalling over £9m. This includes South West Nuclear Hub members the universities of Bristol and Southampton, as well as Cavendish Nuclear.
The international team working on the XXL Survey has released a new dataset of 365 clusters of galaxies and 26,000 active galactic nuclei, along with 20 papers presenting the results from the new data.
The South West Nuclear Hub, based at the University of Bristol, has grown its academic network further by welcoming the University of Southampton as another University member.
The University of Bristol is pioneering the monitoring of volcanic activity by developing a cutting-edge measurement system that can withstand the harsh conditions around the heart of an active volcano.
Students from the BCFN wowed spectators at the Blue Dot Festival with their polarized stained glass windows!
Paralympic swimmer and gold medalist Susie Rodgers MBE to visit BCFN PhD students next week
A number of researchers from the School of Physics recently visited a local primary school to introduce the children to robotics and the wide range of exciting equipment in use at the University of Bristol.
Two PhD students from the Interface Analysis Centre celebrated their graduation during the July Ceremonies having successfully completed their nuclear-related theses.
Two PhD students from the School of Physics at the University of Bristol have received "Superior Paper” recognition for their research following the Waste Management Symposium (WMS) 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona earlier this year.
A delegation from the University of Bristol travelled to the EDF Group research laboratories in Saclay near Paris to sign an international framework agreement.
BCFN 4th year student, Kate Oliver, has made it through to the finals of the Institute of Physics’ 3 Minute Wonder
BCFN 3rd years student, Victoria Taylor, has made it through to the final stage of the Three Minute Thesis competition, to be held during the finale of the Research Without Borders event on the 9th May.
BCFN 4th year student, Kate Oliver, was the MC at the first Bristol edition of Agony Auncles of Science; a show which provides comedic scientific answers to audience submitted problems.
Two students on the MSc Nuclear Science and Engineering programme undertook a week-long exchange at the Material Ageing Institute (MAI), EDF Lab Les Renardières, Paris in early 2018.
The Royal Society of Chemistry have produced a short film featuring BCFN student Maddy Nichols
This year the BCFN will be joining the exciting UK summer festival circuit.
Our BCFN PhD students Rafael Moreno Tortolero and Madeleine Nichols have just returned from an exciting couple of weeks in the Ottobock repairs workshop at the South Korea Winter Paralympic Games.
Students Maddy Nichols and Rafael Moreno Tortolero who have just returned from working alongside world-leading prosthetic limb manufacturers Ottobock at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics have been featured on the BBC.
Science Showoff Bristol is bringing the Agony Auncles of Science to the Crofter's Rights on 27th March
BCFN student Kate Oliver exhibited her work to MPs and other scientists in the House of Commons on 12 March as part of STEM for Britain. Here's what she had to say about the exciting event.
On Tuesday 13th March Laura Sosa and Angela Suriyakumaran from the BCFN helped celebrate British Science Week by getting involved in outreach sessions at Unit DX
Two PhD students from the University of Bristol will be travelling to South Korea this week [10 March] where they will be assisting within the Repair Service Centre at the Paralympic Winter Games.
BCFN student Kate Oliver will be exhibiting her work to MPs and other scientists in the House of Commons in March as part of STEM for Britain.
Delegates from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials and Bristol Doctoral College visited Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), in Puebla, Mexico from February 6th – 9th as part of an event sponsored by the British Council “Higher Education Links” programme to discuss the development of closer doctoral training links between UDLAP, BCFN and Bristol.
BCFN and Synthesis CDT students took some time out from their laboratory studies to explore the commercial potential of the research going on around them, in a month-long Business Bootcamp programme that looks set to yield two new university-linked start-up companies.
The BCFN celebrated on Friday 9 February with some of our graduating MSc students
BCFN student Noha Abu El Magd has won an award from the EPSRC RISE programme for inspiring people in STEM
BCFN students attended a Science Communication workshop hosted by Imperial College London and the BBC to explore how the research community engages with the public
The Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials hosted its inaugural industry showcase, 'Materials for the Industries of Tomorrow', at We The Curious science centre in Bristol
Following a successful opening in September 2016, the South West Nuclear Hub started welcoming its members. Out of these, in November 2016 EDF Energy joined the South West Nuclear Hub. This is a significant step in the implementation of the Hub’s delivery model, and a testimony to the fact that EDF Energy, the EDF Group and Bristol University have long been strategic partners.
Oxford Instruments' Young Scientist India Award winner 2017, Prof Narayan Pradhan, gave a keynote lecture at a BCFN symposium on Multicomponent Semiconductor Materials
On 18th October, Dr Annela Seddon, Director of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN) was invited to attend the Institute of Physics’ Business Innovation Awards at the Palace of Westminster.
Dr. Paul Skrzypczyk of the Quantum Information and Foundations group at University of Bristol, together with collaborators from ICFO – The Institute for Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, have shed new light on quantum teleportation.
Two University of Bristol spin-out companies, Zeetta Networks and KETS Quantum Security, have been announced as winners of a major venture capital initiative led by BT, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Facebook, which will provide them with access to investors with funds totalling £125 million.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Bedfordshire, in collaboration with multinational company ABB, have designed and tested a series of plasmonic nanoantenna arrays that could lead to the development of a new generation of ultrasensitive and low-cost fluorescence sensors that could be used to monitor water quality.
The UK government has announced a £65 million strategic investment in the next generation of particle physics experiments.
Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful than previously thought before they can beat today’s ordinary PCs.
Last week, the new group of Quantum technology Enterprise Centre (QTEC) Fellows began their 2017/18 programme of MBA level training alongside other local sci-tech start-ups at Bristol Science Incubator, Unit DX.
BCFN take their conference to the Zoo!
Dr Sven Friedemann of the Correlated Electron Group at the University of Bristol, together with collaborators, has found a new phase transition in a ferromagnet at zero temperatures.
This year's undergraduate teaching prizes have been awarded to lectures from the Correlated Electron Systems group.
This year's undergraduate teaching prizes have been awarded to lectures from the Correlated Electron Systems group.
Research Associate position to work on hydrogen compound superconductors at high pressures.
BCFN students demonstrate practical nanotechnology using light boxes and polarising filters
CDT-CMP academic Dr Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński has won a prestigious early-career award from the Institute of Physics for his work on graphene
Professor Sandu Popescu has achieved the rare distinction of being elected Fellow of the world’s most eminent and oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, the Royal Society.
CDT-CMP students present talks at APS meeting
Undergraduates Astrid, Viktoria and Helen ran Bath Half Marathon and raised over £1000.
BCFN student Sara Carreira uses new techniques to publicise her work
BCFN Student Kate Oliver wins runner up in The Jean Golding Institute’s Data is Beautiful competition.
First-year students from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials led visitors through some of the weirder quirks of the light all around us at the Institute of Physics' annual festival, here at the University of Bristol.
The great research and development work carried out by scientists at the University of Bristol’s School of Physics has received a significant boost, thanks to local firm IES.
The University of Bristol has been awarded a £4.3 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to lead an important new project to develop Gallium Nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond microwave technology.
Visiting scientists run Industrial Training Module at the BCFN
Euan Allen, a QET Labs PhD student at the University of Bristol, has been shortlisted for the Institute of Physics (IOP) award recognising outstanding science communicators.
Professor Jeremy O'Brien has been invited by the World Economic Forum - Network of Global Future Councils to be co-chair of the Global Future Council on Computing for the 2016-2018 term.
The Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) at Bristol University invite UK businesses to attend an industry day focused on Quantum Technologies and how they can be incorporated into the modern business.
The Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) at Bristol University invite UK businesses to attend an industry day focused on Quantum Technologies and how they can be incorporated into the modern business.
Findings show that the chloroplasts of some begonias have evolved a nanoscale light-trapping structure to help them survive in the darkness of the forest floor.
The Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training (QECDT) have announced their open day for prospective students. It will be held on December 7th in the Bristol Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering Building within the University of Bristol.
KETS, a University spin-out focusing on Quantum Cryptography by researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics have appeared in an article in WIRED Security.
We're delighted to usher our new students starting in 2016!
The CDT-CMP welcomed staff, students, and parters to the annual conference, held at the University of Bath
The students and staff of the CDT-CMP gathered for our annual summer social - this year on a narrowboat!
CDT-CMP students to continue their successful JPhys+ guest blog
Current student Rebecca Purkiss tells us about working with schoolchildren
Scientists are harnessing quantum physical effects to achieve sensors with unprecedented sensitivity. Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics have sought a new approach to quantum measurements and have had their results published in Nature.
The Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, the University of Bristol's quantum initiative have created a new blog and YouTube channel where you can get information about the quantum research being undertaken at the University and meet the people behind the research.
New research, using computer models of wave chaos, has shown that three-dimensional tangled vortex filaments can in fact be knotted in many highly complex ways.
On the 18th July, Dr Peter Shadbolt previous researcher and collaborator of the Centre for Quantum Photonics, was invited by the Prime Minister, Theresa May to attend a welcome home reception for British Astronaut Tim Peake.
A paper on Quantum Logic by Bristol physicists in collaboration with researchers at University of Oxford was released in Physical Review Letters (PRL) this week.
Congratulations to Jude Laverock, winner of the Faculty of Science Students’ Award for Outstanding Teaching
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has awarded the Dirac medal to Professor Sandu Popescu for his contribution to quantum physics, recognising his work to further the understanding of quantum physics and his research into nonlocality.
QECDT and CQP Researcher Euan Allen won science competition 'I'm a Scientist...Get me out of here!' - a free online event allows school students to meet and interact with scientists.
Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics and Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training delighted the general public with the quirks of optics and quantum mechanics at this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival.
Dr Anthony Laing, Bristol Lecturer in Quantum Physics and EPSRC Early Career Fellow, spoke last month at Quantum Europe in Amsterdam where the €1bn European flagship for quantum technologies was launched
Scientists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Western Australia have developed how to efficiently simulate a “quantum walk” on a new design for a primitive quantum computer.
Physicists at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol have made improvements in loss, which will allow this quantum photonic interconnect to provide new levels of flexibility in quantum systems and architectures.
From the 6 - 8th April 2016, 200 academics and industry leaders headed to Bristol for the annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT) 2016.
University of Bristol physicists researching how drones can be used to speed up landmine clearance flew a drone over Old Trafford on Monday 4th April 2016 – UN International Day for Mine Awareness – to demonstrate how large, football pitch-sized areas can be mapped quickly.
For the second year in a row, Bristol Optical Students’ Society (BOSS) hosted the visit of a new generation of young “Future Brunels” in the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP).
Students at the University of Bristol's School of Physics tell us what a welcoming and supportive place it is to study. To give you a taste of student life we have produced a special newsletter.
Bristol University PhD student, Euan Allen has won a prestigious Gold award at the final of the SET for Britain Exhibition, held in Westminster on Monday 7th March.
The University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) has set out to change the way quantum technologies are designed, developed and manufactured and to create a world-leading centre to train entrepreneurially-minded quantum engineers. Today [Tuesday 1 March] the Universities & Science Minister Jo Johnson announced QETLabs has been successfully awarded funding of £9 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to make this happen.
The Institute of Physics announced this week that the 2016 QEP Doctoral Research Prize has been awarded to Dr. Joshua Silverstone from the Centre for Quantum Photonics for his work on ‘Entangled Light in Silicon Waveguides’, under the supervision of Professors Mark Thompson and Jeremy O’Brien.
The Centre for Quantum Photonics is pleased to announce that two more of their academics, Dr Anthony Laing and Dr Ruth Oulton are among the latest recipients of the Quantum Technologies (QT) Fellowship, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). These fellowships will support the UK’s activities as a world leader in QT in order to meet future needs across the science and technology base.
A number of members of the IAC recently attended (11th February 2016) the Nuclear Institute event “Technology supply chain in action” in Cumbria to demonstrate some of the ongoing research performed that may aid in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.
Stefan Frick, second year Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training (QECDT) student has been announced as co-winner of the esteemed Erwin Schrödinger Prize for his contribution to a project entitled "Quantum Communication in flight."
Physicists at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol have had an article entitled 'active temporal and spatial multiplexing of photons' published in Optica.
Congratulations to Lewis Hart, who has a paper published in Nanoletters
Quantum computing will change lives, society and the economy and a working system is expected to be developed by 2020 according to a leading figure in the world of quantum computing, who will talk tomorrow [21 January 2016] at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
A panorama of the X-ray sky has been completed by an international team of more than 100 scientists, providing new insights into the nature of the Universe.
Quantum Engineering CDT students brought some close-up science to the masses, at the after hours event hosted by At Bristol science museum.
This year's European Magnetic Field Laboratories prize has been awarded to Dr Carsten Putzke of Bristol's Correlated Electron Systems group.
QECDT Student Sam Pallister attended the 2015 Alpbach Summer School, held in the beautiful Austrian Tyrol. This year’s meeting, focused on quantum and fundamental physics in space.
Pippard prizewinner Professor Tony Carrington gave a lecture on his recent research at the winter meeting of the Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group.
The annual Art of Science competition has come to the end of a week long exhibition in the Life Sciences atrium. The exhibition has been enjoyed by many over the past week and the winners of the competition have been announced.
During the last week of October, the first year Quantum Engineering CDT (QECDT) cohort travelled to D-Wave labs and headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, to visit the start-up company claiming to have built the “the worlds first commercial quantum computer”.
The Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Hugh Brady, has officially opened the new University of Bristol Cleanroom. This multi-million pound facility is the jewel in the crown for research groups at Bristol who specialise in micro- and nano-fabrication.
In a neat connection with pioneering work in Bristol over 80 years ago, a team of physicists from Bristol and Munich have used spin-polarised positron annihilation to probe the electronic structure of a Heusler alloy, Cu2MnAl. [See note 1 below]
Recent investment in facilities for our undergraduate students were supported by the generosity of our alumni. Read about these, and how philanthropic support for the work of postgraduate students is resulting in innovative science.
A new technology by CQP researchers which will help to ensure data is secure has won the University of Bristol's equivalent to Dragon's Den and a share of over £35,000 prize money.
A model microscopic system to demonstrate the transmission of torque in the presence of thermal fluctuations – necessary for the creation of a tiny 'clutch' operating at the nanoscale – has been assembled at the University of Bristol as part of an international collaboration.
Our logo was designed by current student Dewan Chowdhury, who won our logo design competition. He explains how the design came about.
On the 25th of September, students from Centre for Quantum Photonics took part in Bristol Bright Night as part of outreach with BOSS (Bristol Optical Student Society.)
On Friday 18th September CQP staff and researchers attended the annual Research Forum of the Royal Academy of Engineering which showcases the UK's outstanding engineering research.
Twelve school students, aged from 14 to 17, enjoyed their week of work experience in Bristol's School of Physics.
Physics undergraduate student Aidan Cassidy will be part of a team of cyclists who will cycle 1,000 km to raise money for a Manchester asylum seekers' charity. The team began their cycle ride on 6 September in Macedonia at Lake Ohrid, and will ride to Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Congratulations to Dr Helen Heath, who has become a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Sven Friedemann, lecturer in physics, won a gold medal at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Masters Regatta in Hazewinkel, Belgium. At the University of Bristol, he studies superconductors and other electronic materials at extreme conditions. In his spare time he is a competitive rower for more than twenty years having competed for German clubs and universities and English clubs.
On a Monday evening in early September, Bristol theorists Keith Alexander and Professor Mark Dennis explained to a packed audience how knots appear in physical science. Topics covered, from knotted whirlpools of water to topological quantum field theory, highlighted Bristol research on knotted optical vortices and tangled protein configurations.
The Bristol Optical Students’ Society (BOSS), comprised predominantly by CQP students, recently organised and ran “An Afternoon of Optics". This society is a Student Chapter funded by the Optical Society (OSA) aiming to promote discussion and cross-talk between different areas of science that use or are related to optics.
In early August 2015, the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) organised its first Summer School. Aimed at encouraging more young people to study physics by introducing them to world-class science and research, the school was attended by 14 young people from as far away as Rome all of whom came to Bristol to learn more about the growing and exciting field quantum photonics.
Deadlines are quickly approaching for positions within the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) and the newly established Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) within the University of Bristol.
This summer we have been strengthening the link between Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) and the Quantum Optoelectronics Laboratory (QOL) at Kyoto University.
Particle Physics PhD students are Tough Mudders. The Tough Mudder is a 10-12 mile extreme obstacle course designed by the British Special Forces. On Saturday 22 August, three Bristol Particle Physics PhD students, Eugenia Price, Nicole Skidmore and Sophie Richards as well as recent PhD graduate David Voong, completed Tough Mudder with team mates Beki Price, Siphiwe Manda and Emma Runesson.
Oxford Instruments and the University of Bristol's School of Physics new strategic relationship aims to bring together Oxford Instruments as a training partner and collaborator with the three EPSRC funded Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) within the school – the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, the Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Engineering.
An international team of astronomers, including a Bristol professor and several Bristol alumni, studying more than 200 000 galaxies, has measured the energy generated within a large portion of space more precisely than ever before. This represents the most comprehensive assessment of the energy output of the nearby Universe. Their findings were presented at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii. They confirm that the energy produced in a section of the Universe today is only about half what it was two billion years ago and find that this fading is occurring across all wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the far infrared. The Universe is slowly dying.
The microprocessor inside a computer is a single multipurpose chip that has revolutionised people’s life, allowing them to use one machine to surf the web, check emails and keep track of finances. Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number of ways.
CQP Researchers bring chip-scale quantum devices closer to reality in new article in Nature Communications this month.
Congratulations to Mark Thompson of the Centre for Quantum Photonics who has recently been promoted to Professor of Quantum Photonics.
On 3rd July researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics held their annual research workshop. The internal workshop is a way of bringing together researchers from all different projects within the group to enjoy a day of collaboration, discussion and presentations.
This years Postgraduate Research Conference was held on the 16th June in Mott Lecture Theatre.
The Centre for Quantum Photonics is pleased to announce that two of their academics Prof. John Rarity and Dr Jonathan Matthews have been awarded highly competitive fellowships in the EPSRC quantum technologies fellowship programme.
As we near the end of the academic year, we look forward to celebrating the successes of our students.
Scientists and engineers from the University of Bristol, UK, and the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore have published work in the June issue of Optica. They demonstrate a new protocol for estimating unknown optical processes, called unitary operations, with precision enhanced by the unique properties of quantum mechanics. This could lead to both dramatically better sensors for medical research and new approaches to benchmark the performance ultra-powerful quantum computers.
Can time go backwards? It seems the stuff of science-fiction, but various aspects of present-day physics, from intricate distortions of space-time due to gravity to strange quantum effects, suggest that at least some form of backward-in-time influences are possible.
More people have been sent into space or climbed Everest than those who have rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. A test of such physical endurance teamed with a wide range of dangerous obstacles unique to the vast ocean environment is not for the faint-hearted. Yet second year Bristol Physics and Astrophysics student Jay Olenicz is one of those preparing for this year’s Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, which at just under 3500 miles is one of the world’s most arduous and intense races. Undergraduate student Aimee Nevill reports:
The University of Bristol attracts excellent students from all over the world, and the School of Physics is no exception: students from every continent are studying at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
The University of Bristol has today launched its new state-of-the-art Quantum Engineering Technology (QET) Labs. The QET Labs will provide unique world-leading facilities, bringing together industrial and academic collaborators to build devices that span numerous areas of quantum technology development from the nano-fabrication of quantum devices to a city-scale Quantum Key Distribution network.
The IUPAP Commission 17 has awarded Dr Mark Thompson a Young Scientist Prize for outstanding contributions of an applied nature to his field.
Members of the Centre for Quantum Photonics attended the Quantum Communications Hub launch event at the Ron Cooke Hub building at the University of York on 4th June.
The core circuits of quantum teleportation, which generate and detect quantum entanglement, have been successfully integrated into a photonic chip by an international team of scientists from the universities of Bristol, Tokyo, Southampton and NTT Device Technology Laboratories. These results pave the way to developing ultra-high-speed quantum computers and strengthening the security of communication.
The Bubble Chamber tournament is a fiercely contested football competition for particle physics research groups.
On 21st February, New Scientst held an all day event to teach the general public about the Quantum World. Prof. Jeremy O'Brien was invited to talk about how quantum physics can be used to create Quantum Technologies.
Active Temporal Multiplexing of Photons
Professor Martin Kuball is one of two research academics in the University of Bristol to receive the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
PhD students from the Center for Quantum Photonics (CQP) and members of the Bristol Optical Student Society (BOSS) shared the wonders of light with a group of enthusiastic Bristol students.
Dr Tom Scott was recently invited to a meeting at Downing Street, London, about degree-level nuclear skills, chaired by Minister Philip Dunne.
PhD student, Giacomo Ferranti, has had his Masters thesis published as a Scientific Report on nature.com.
QuantIC, the Quantum Imaging Centre, was launched at an event at the Glasgow Science Centre on 24th February.
The Centre for Quantum Photonics is pleased to announce the return of the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop from the 15th - 17th April 2015.
CQP PhD Student Jacques Carolan appears in a new YouTube video by Tom Scott, well known YouTube presenter and science personality.
CQP researchers have had a new article published in Physical Review A (Vol.91, No.2).
Stefan Lines, a PhD student working with Dr Zoe Leinhardt, recently won the Big Data zone of the I'm a Scientist event, in which Key stage 2 to Key stage 5 school students put questions to scientists. The prize money will buy a Raspberry Pi for two of the schools involved, who will use it to monitor the weather.
On February 2nd and 3rd the Southwest Quantum Technologies group workshop was held in Bristol, following up on the inaugural meeting at the University of Exeter in November.
Congratulations to Prof. Jeremy O'Brien, director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics for being successful in his application for an ERC Consolidator Grant worth around €2,000,000 to further his research in Photonic Quantum Computing.
Does glass ever stop flowing? Researchers at the University of Bristol and Kyoto University have combined computer simulation and information theory, originally invented for telephone communication and cryptography, to answer this puzzling question.
The University of Bristol is ranked among the top five institutions in the UK for its research, according to new analysis of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 which takes into account the percentage of staff submitted.
Dr Chris Lester and Professor Stephen Hayden of the Correlated Electrons Group at the University, together with collaborators, have found that a large magnetic field can stabilize antiferromagnetism in a metal.
Professor Antony Carrington is the winner of the 2014 Brian Pippard Prize of the Institute of Physics.
The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) results have been published - and the University of Bristol has been ranked among the UK’s top research universities. 81.7% of the research papers submitted from Bristol to the Physics Unit of Assessment panel were judged to be of the highest 3* or 4* quality.
Three members of staff from the School of Physics were successful in the University’s Professional Services Excellence Awards.
The School of Physics is pleased to announce that Professor Sir Michael Berry is to receive the Lorentz medal.
The UK government has released information about the £120m programme to explore the properties of quantum mechanics and how it can be used to develop new technologies. The four Quantum Technology Hubs, which will involve a total of 17 UK universities and 132 companies, will be funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The investment is part of the £270m National Quantum Technologies Programme that was announced in 2013 by UK chancellor George Osborne and will run across the next five years. The Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) is pleased to announce our involvement in two successful hubs; Quantum Sensing and Imaging led by the University of Glasgow and Quantum Communications led by the University of York.
A welcome from our new Head of School, with a look forward to the challenges which lie ahead.
Research conducted by undergraduate student James Oliver during his work placement at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, the UK’s national fusion laboratory, has been published in the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion.
In November, the School of Physics received the Athena SWAN bronze award.
The School of Physics organised a stall and display to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2014. The foyer of the Physics building became the focus of the celebration of the role of women in science past, present and future.
The University of Bristol remembered the fallen today.
Dr Döndü Sahin, a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher from the Centre for Quantum Photonics, was invited to present a paper based on her PhD work for the Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.
On 16th October, the Bristol Optical Students Society (B.O.S.S) held an opening evening to celebrate the official launch of the new social year and to advertise some of the events and opportunities which will take place over the next year.
Entanglement—one of the most delicate phenomena in nature—is an essential resource for quantum information applications. Researchers from Centre for Quantum Photonics reveal their latest findings.
The Researchers’ Night was a success, with Bristol Bright Night contributions from the School of Physics.
On 26th September, the Bristol Optical Students Society (BOSS) participated in the Bristol Bright Night, a special evening where researchers share their work with people of all ages in order to promote science and inspire the youngest members of the general public to embrace a scientific career.
A New Paper on "Fast electrical switching of orbital angular momentum modes using ultra-compact integrated vortex emitters"by CQP Researchers in collaboration with several other leading Photonics Groups has been published in Nature Communications.
In August, Daniel Finkelstein OBE, Executive Editor of The Times and RISE Companion to Prof. Jeremy O'Brien visited Bristol to have a look at our labs and to film a short video for EPSRC about Professor O'Brien and the work undertaken at the Centre for Quantum Photonics.
A new way to run a quantum algorithm using much simpler methods than previously thought has been discovered by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol. These findings could dramatically bring forward the development of a 'quantum computer' capable of beating a conventional computer.
Five University of Bristol academics have been named by Thomson Reuters as among the top one per cent of scientists who are “the world’s leading scientific minds” and whose publications are among the most influential in their fields.
Physicists are one step closer to proving the reliability of a quantum computer – a machine which promises to revolutionise the way we trade over the internet and provide new tools to perform powerful simulations.
Paper by CQP Researchers on "A variational eigenvalue solver on a photonic quantum processor" published in Nature Communications.
The last special lecture of the academic year gave school students a taste of the physics of ice cream.
On a beautifully sunny day over 300 guests attended the School of Physics graduation prizegiving on Friday 11 July 2014.
The School of Physics welcomed a group of school students for a week of work experience.
Peter Shadbolt, a final year PhD student in the School of Physics on secondment with Imperial College London, was named as a Rising Star at the recent RISE Awards, which celebrate inspirational scientists and engineers leading innovation in the engineering and physical sciences.
NASA will come to NSQI at Bristol University to use their facilities in order to test sensitive equipment for a mission to Mars.
Students from Royal High School win an opportunity to present at a conference in the Netherlands.
Four member of CQP presented a demonstration on Quantum Key Distribution to year 9 girls at the Skirting Science Workshop in an attempt to increase the number of girls taking Physics at GCSE level.
Professor O'Brien was asked to present a Google Tech Talk on "Quantum Technologies" you can now watch the video online here.
Cake designs were at their most creative yet with decorative themes of the competing cakes including science, football and aliens, in aid of Emmaus Bristol.
Jonathan Matthews of CQP has an invited viewpoint published in APS Physics on Scalable Imaging of Superresolution
Dr Chris Erven of CQP won a Bristol PechaKucha Competition with his presentation on Quantum Cryptography
Researchers at CQP have article published in Physical Review Letter journal
Jacques Carolan a PhD Student with CQP has been shortlisted for EPSRC ICT Pioneers Award
The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to announce the formation of the B.O.S.S. Bristol Optical Students Society (also known as University of Bristol OSA Student Chapter).
Researchers at CQP have made the research highlights in this month's edition of the IEEE Photonics Society News
The paper published in the April edition of Nature Physics magazine is entitled "Testing foundation of Quantum Mechanics with Photons" authored by Peter Shadbolt, Jonathan C.F Mathews, Anthony Laing and Jeremy L O'Brien
Bristol's newly established £10M EPSRC funded Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training will train a new generation of engineers and scientists.
CQP have a brand new monthly Newsletter, sign up to receive it now.
The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a prestigious Research Programme Grant to a collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Durham for a project titled ‘SPOCK: Scientific Properties of Complex Knots’.
School of Physics Newsletter, April 2014 - published today.
Quantum cryptography for mobile phones
Professor Jeremy O’Brien named as one of the top ten inspirational scientists on EPSRC's RISE list
A new Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Bristol and University of Bath has received £4.1million funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), it was announced today by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt. Hon George Osborne MP
Based on last year's final year undergraduate project work, a paper has been published in an international journal.
A new and much-needed remote system to safely and accurately assess dangerous nuclear accident sites has been awarded funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Dr Ruth Oulton has been interviewed by the Guardian Newspaper for her explaination on Quantum Computing and why we need it.
Dr Ruth Oulton has had a new article on Quantum dots published in Nature Nanotechnology
Centre for Quantum Photonics is hosting DSTL Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop 2014
Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far, far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real world counterparts, observed by the Kepler space telescope, suggests.
Researchers from CQP are on the front cover of the February edition of Nature Photonics for their paper "On-chip quantum interference between silicon"
Dr Daryl Beggs, from CQP, has been awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
A new paper has been published online at Nature Physics.
The reception students at Southville Primary School are currently studying the differences between liquids and solids.
developed by Dr Sunthar Mahalingam
Dr Jaap Velthuis of the School of Physics and Dr Joachim Gottsmann of the School of Earth Sciences have received a NERC award to accelerate the impact of their research.
Dr James Ring has been awarded the 2013 Graduate School Paper Prize.
On 19 December 2013, Europe’s billion-star surveyor is due to be launched into space where it will embark on its mission to create a highly accurate 3D map of our galaxy.
The Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts, will provide details of how a £350 million fund will be used to train tomorrow’s engineers and scientists at an event in London today.
The fascinating story of what happened eighty years ago when German physicists came to Bristol features in the Autumn edition of Nonesuch magazine.
Professor Peter Barham featured in a recent FT Magazine.
The third School of Physics Newsletter is published today.
Dr John Wilson, retired George Wills Senior Research Fellow in Physics, died on 7 October 2013.
Congratulations to Professor Sir Michael Berry, who was awarded a Doctor of Science at Hyderabad - and has also been selected to give the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture by the American Association of Physics Teachers
This meeting will bring together scientists and engineers to showcase R&D in all aspects of managing the UK radioactive waste legacy, including: decommissioning technologies, waste characterisation, treatment, packaging, and disposal; site remediation; and radiation effects.
Professor Bob Evans is to be awarded the 2014 European Physical Society Liquid Matter Prize in July 2014.
Direct measurement of osmotic pressure via adaptive confinement of quasi hard disc colloid
Beccie Whittaker was a prizewinner at the British Science Festival in Newcastle.
Congratulations to Dr Ruth Oulton who won a prize for her talk at Complex Nano-Photonics Conference titled "Light-matter angular momentum exchange: beyond 'spin' and 'orbital' angular momentum'. Well done Ruth!
Dr Mark Thompson has been awarded EPSRC early career fellowship on "Silicon Quantum Photonics". Well done Mark.
Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN) staff and students presented their work in China recently.
Dr Derek Parsons, retired Lecturer and Departmental Administrator in Physics, died on 22 August 2013.
Physics Bates Prize
Science Festival in Newcastle
Congratulations Jorge
Annual Meeting of the New Champions
BBC News
BBC Radio interview
Professor Sandu Popescu has been awarded the Templeton Frontiers Program Visiting Research Chair.
Welcome to Nicolas Brunner who is giving a graduate lecture series this week
Postdoc position available at CQP – please see advert
Physics graduates of 2013
Welcome to Alex Neville who is starting a PhD at CQP
Physics baking enthusiasts hold a first Physics Bake Off!
The School of Physics welcomed 11 students for a week's work experience.
Arturs Thijssen successfully defends his thesis – Well done Arturs
CQP welcomes Universities and Science minister
The University of Bristol's School of Physics is delighted to be awarded the status of Juno Practitioner by the Institute of Physics.
A Centre for Power Electronics that will focus on delivering the underpinning science and engineering behind many low carbon technologies from electric vehicles to renewable energy generation and distribution has been launched thanks to funding of £18 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Welcome to Ivo Straka who is working with CQP for a couple of weeks from the Palacky University, Czech Republic
Adam Smith, who will be graduating next week, is now working in a Bristol-based energy development charity.
Dr Paddy Royall, Alex Malins (PhD student in the School of Chemistry) and collaborators recently published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports.
It's official - we've always known Chaos, the School of Physics' student society, is pretty good. But now this has been confirmed as the University of Bristol Students' Union (UBU) has awarded Chaos the Best Student Society acolade in the recent UBU awards.
Physics staff have been honoured in a joint venture between the Students’ Union and the University, the Bristol Teaching Awards - a new scheme to recognise and reward those who have made an outstanding contribution to teaching and the provision of support for students.
Recently Nicole Killat won the Best Student Paper award for her outstanding research.
Welcome to Tim Ralph who is visiting CQP from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Welcome to Jingbo Wang who is visiting CQP from the University of Western Australia
Damien Bonneau successfully defends his thesis – Congratulations Damien!
The first ever high performance GaN (gallium nitride)/diamond transistor has been demonstrated by a team of TriQuint Semiconductors USA and the Center for Device Thermography and Reliability (CDTR) in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol.
Physics World joins the theoretical physics discussion group.
Welcome to Yogesh Joglekar, Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, from IUPUI, who will be working with CQP for the next couple of months
JP Hadden successfully defends his thesis - Well done JP!
A team of baking enthusiasts from the Micro- and Nanostructural Materials group raised over £170 for the charity Sparks.
Members of the Micro and Nanostructural materials research group took the Best Team Performance prize in a recent four week walking challenge.
New technology developed in Physics helped Bristol scientists investigate novel nano-materials.
On Tuesday and Thursday this week 100 school students will join us for a Particle Physics Masterclass.
Physics programmes are accredited by the Institute of Physics.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £2.1m to the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Southampton for a new electron microscope, as part of its Strategic Equipment initiative.
Bristol Physics student Christian Foss has been longlisted in the Guardian’s Very Short Film competition.
The University of Bristol Union has officially announced the elected officers for 2013-14 - including a Physics student.
Energy and the Physical Sciences:Beta-enhanced thermionic energy converters and nuclear batteries employing nanostructured diamond electrodes, brings together a strong interdisciplinary team from four different departments in one project.
This week new results from the CMS collaboration are presented at the annual winter conference.
An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, and the University of Queensland, Australia, has demonstrated a quantum algorithm that performs a true calculation for the first time. Quantum algorithms could one day enable the design of new materials, pharmaceuticals or clean energy devices.
Professor Michael Berry made a new acquaintance when giving a public lecture recently.
A paper from the Centre for Quantum Photonics has been included as a New Journal of Physics highlight.
Applications are invited for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (vacancy no. ACAD100256)
The second School of Physics Newsletter features CERN, Juno and Chaos!
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Reliability of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors: Power and RF Applications.
The Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN) has joined together with local schools for an outreach project called NanoX.
This year’s School of Physics Graduate Student Paper Prize ended in a tie. The prize was awarded for the best paper published between October 2011 and September 2012 where a student was the major contributor.
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Thermal Characterisation of AIGaN/GaN, Diamond Materials and Integrated Devices.
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant or Associate to work with Dr. Zoë Leinhardt in the Astrophysics group in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol on an interdisciplinary project to study changes in the bulk composition of the Earth during accretion. (vacancy no. ACAD100184 )
CQP Physics welcomes a cohort of new RAs and administrative staff in 2012/13
CQP Physics welcomes a cohort of new PhD students in 2012/13.
Dr Anthony Laing talks about the reality of quantum computers with the Metro.
In November, past and present University of Bristol students staged a full-scale ballet production – the first of its kind to be held in the city.
Articles by two University of Bristol professors have been selected for a special collection.
Two PhD students from the Centre for Quantum Photonics suspended their facial-grooming routines this month to raise cash for Movember.
Jacques Carolan, a PhD student in the Centre of Quantum Photonics, has won the Welsh regional final of an international science communication competition called FameLab.
A memorial for Balazs Gyorffy, Emeritus Professor of Physics, will take place on Saturday 17 November 2012.
Dr Paddy Royall and colleagues build on work by Professor Sir Charles Frank sixty years ago.
Our paper, 'A Quantum Delayed Choice Experiment', is published in Science.
Bristol scientists perform new experiment to solve the ‘one real mystery’ of quantum mechanics
Two new publications from the Centre for Quantum Photonics.
New research seeks to push the discovery that light can be tied in knots to the next level.
CQP's recently published paper, 'Experimental realisation of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using qubit recycling', receives attention from the quantum blog, The Quantum Pontiff.
With great sadness we report the death of Professor Balazs Gyorffy.
Bristol is spearheading a nationwide schools project to shed light on the origin of millions of cosmic rays that crash into the Earth’s atmosphere from outer space.
University of Bristol physicists have been awarded £5 million to search for new laws of nature at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
An international team of astronomers, including Professor Steve Phillipps from Bristol, has reported the discovery of two groups of galaxies with very similar properties to the local group containing our own Milky Way Galaxy.
This summer saw the University of Bristol hold the 16th triennial International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-16) with attendance from over 200 people from 28 different countries. Bristol has a rich history in positron physics; Paul Dirac, who predicted the existence of the positron in 1928, lived here in his childhood and studied in Bristol as an undergraduate.
The results of a collaboration between Bristol's Stephen Hayden and colleagues based in Birmingham, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Vancouver, and Villigen were published in October by Nature Physics. The results show that high temperature superconductivity in layered cuprates can develop from an electronically ordered state called a charge density wave.
An article 'Recycled photons set fresh quantum computing record' has been published in the New Scientist following research published in Nature Photonics.
A research team from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) have brought the reality of a quantum computer one step closer by experimentally demonstrating a technique for significantly reducing the physical resources required for quantum factoring.
Applications are invited for 5 PhD Studentships in Materials Science
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship based at the University of Bristol's Interface Analysis Centre
Dr Mark Thompson has secured funding worth over £245,000 from the EPSRC following a successful 'Big Pitch' application.
A research assistant at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) has won the British Science Association’s Strictly Engineering challenge.
Professor Jeremy O'Brien gave an invited talk on the future of information and communications technology (ICT) and the impact the quantum technologies revolution will have on the future of society and economics at the the WEF in China.
Dr Alberto Peruzzo has been awarded a Postgraduate Commendation for his thesis.
Applications are invited for a 15 month EPSRC-funded post-doctoral position in the Schools of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Bristol (UK) starting from 1 November 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. (vacancy ref. 17508)
Professor Jeremy O'Brien and Dr Mark Thompson are featured in an article describing the possible applications of their breakthrough silicon quantum chip.
Professor Jeremy O'Brien and Dr Mark Thompson appear in an article in the Financial Times prior to their appearance at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.
Applications are invited for a three-year Research Manager position in the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) of the School of Physics (vacancy ref. 17440)
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant or Associate with the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics to work on precision flavour physics at the LHCb experiment. (vacancy ref. 17463)
The School of Physics is looking to recruit a technician to help run our state-of-the-art undergraduate teaching laboratories. (vacancy ref. 17472)
Dr Jonathan Matthews from the Centre for Quantum Photonics has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.
Professor Diana Worrall has become President of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Division for High Energies and Fundamental Physics.
Professor Berry was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University.
Dr Jonas Rademacker, Bristol’s particle physics group, has been awarded a €1.4M start-up grant to make precision measurements of the subtle differences between matter and anti-matter.
Bristol students helped to recreate a Nobel prize-winning experiment at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta recently.
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Quantum Dot Spin Physics for Experimental Quantum Information Science at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, School of Physics and Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant based within the Interface Analysis Centre, School of Physics.
Enrique Martin-Lopez, a PhD student in the Centre for Quantum Photonics, has taken third prize for his poster at the prestigious QCMC 2012 conference in Vienna.
Applications are invited for a three-year Research Assistant position in the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics (vacancy ref. 17380)
Professor Mervyn Miles of the University of Bristol has today been announced as the new Chief Scientific Advisor for IOP Publishing
Dr Alberto Peruzzo from the Centre for Quantum Photonics has been awarded a distinguished Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Last week the School of Physics welcomed fourteen year 10 - 12 students for a varied work experience - read their report.
Applications are invited for Research Assistants (three posts) in Integrated Photonic Engineering/Experimental Quantum Information Science and Technology Centre for Quantum Photonics, School of Physics and Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (vacancy ref. 17351)
Results of 20 years’ work could open a new frontier of science
Over 70 Physics students took part in an intensive, three day personal development course - Skillsets: Strategies for Success.
CQP's most recent paper, 'Observation of Quantum Interference as a Function of Berry's Phase in a Complex Hadamard Optical Network', appears in Physical Review Letters.
Seeing at the nanoscale 2012 is an international meeting where experts across the world will meet to present and discuss groundbreaking results in the fascinating area on Nanoscience.
Applications are invited for Research Assistants in Quantum Computation and Information Group (vacancy ref. 17252)
Bristol astrophysicists Mike Masheder and Alastair Fraser made an early start on Wednesday 6 June to view the end of the transit of Venus across the rising Sun.
The Max Planck Society honours young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievements in the award of the Otto Hahn medal. Bristol's Martin Gradhand will be awarded this medal at a ceremony in June.
A paper, 'Measuring protein concentration with entangled photons', has appeared in Applied Physical Letters.
The transit of Venus will occur for the second time in ten years on 5 and 6 June. We in the UK will be able to see the transit in progress at sunrise on Wednesday 6 June.
The Centre for Quantum Photonics paper, 'A quantum delayed choice experiment', appears on the arXiv.
CQP's paper, 'Reconfigurable controlled two-qubit operation on a quantum photonic chip', now appears on the arXiv.
Nicole Killat of the Applied Spectroscopy Group was awarded the Best Student Paper - Honourable Mention Award at CS ManTech conference in Boston, USA.
Professor Peter Higgs visits the School of Physics today.
The CMS collaboration has published its 100th scientific result based upon LHC collision data. Based upon work carried out by a team of collaborators from across the world, an analysis of around 500 trillion proton-proton collisions in 2011 has allowed the world’s best experimental limits to be set on the mass of a Higgs-like particle decaying to pairs of tau leptons.
The School of Physics has published its first newsletter.
A solution to the problem of sending information in single quantum particles over global distances could be a step closer thanks to grants of over €3 million that have been awarded to researchers in the University of Bristol’s Quantum Photonics group.
A paper by CQP, 'Photon Pair Generation in Silicon Micro-Ring Resonator and Enhancement via Reverse Bias', is available to read on the arXiv.
The world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, has begun its science run for 2012. In 2012, the accelerator will deliver many more collisions per second, with bunches of around 100 billion protons now colliding every 50ns inside the detectors.
Applications are invited for a Research Assistantship in the Astrophysics group of the School of Physics.
CQP's paper, 'Quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement in silicon wire waveguide quantum circuits', appears as an article in the New Journal of Physics.
A perspective article 'An entangled walk of photons' by Jonathan Matthews and Mark Thompson has appeared in Nature News and Views.
The quality of teaching and learning in the School of Physics has been recognised in the University of Bristol's 2011/12 University Teaching Awards.
Teenagers in a Bristol school joined Dr Annela Seddon and a group of Bristol PhD students in a Europe-wide debate about the ethical, social and legal questions associated with nanoscience on Tuesday 20 March.
Several fellowship schemes are currently open across the full spectrum of career stages
Applications are invited for a lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory, tenable from 1 October 2012 or a date to be agreed.
During 15-17 April 2012 we are hosting a special conference to mark the retirement of Professor Bob Evans
Tom Fenech, a second year PhD student with the Nanophysics and Soft Matter group, University of Bristol has been awarded a commendation and prize for his poster at the recent Institute of Physics (IOP) conference.
The School of Physics was delighted to welcome members of Professor Kurt Hoselitz's family in a recent visit to the university.
New undergraduate students arriving to study physics at the University of Bristol from 1975 onwards have all taken the same test of their knowledge and understanding of physics and mathematics. Prof Peter Barham's analysis of these test results since 1975 has been published in Physics Education.
A CQP publication, 'Fast Path and Polarization Manipulation of Telecom Wavelength Single Photons in Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices', has been featured as a story on the science and technology news website, Phys Org.
Dr Jonathan Matthews has been awarded a Postgraduate Commendation from the Faculty of Science for his outstanding PhD thesis.
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CQP's article, 'Quantum interference and manipulation of entanglement in silicon wire waveguide quantum circuits', appears on the arXiv.
Our article, 'Fast Path and Polarization Manipulation of Telecom Wavelength Single Photons in Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices', has appeared in Physical Review Letters
Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider have received an early Christmas present.
Two students who graduated from the Nanophysics Group this year had their PhD theses nominated for a prize from the Research Degrees Examination Board.
Our article, 'Generating, manipulating and measuring entanglement and mixture with a reconfigurable photonic circuit', has appeared as an advanced online publication in Nature Photonics
Congratulations to Jacques of the Quantum Photonics group.
