LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration detected a remarkable gravitational-wave signal

11 Apr 2024

In May 2023, shortly after the start of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run, the LIGO Livingston detector observed a gravitational-wave signal from the collision of what is most likely a neutron

Small but packs a punch: Electro-nuclear Transition in YbRh2Si2

27 Mar 2023

Scientists found a new magnetic state in YbRh2Si2, driven by nuclear magnetism at 1.5 mK, adding a new twist to the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity.

Royal Holloway University Challenge Team Through to the Quarter Finals

18 Jan 2023

A Huge congratulations to Royal Holloways University Challenge team for making it to the quarter finals!

STFC Early Technology Development Capital Funding awarded to researchers

09 Mar 2022

Royal Holloway researcher Alexander Deisting, and researchers from the University of Warwick, Xianguo Lu and Garry Backer have been successful with a proposal for STFC Early Technology Development Cap

Record low temperature achieved in a sheet of electrons

04 Feb 2022

Researchers at Royal Holloway have smashed the low temperature record for two dimensional electrons, cooling them below one thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

Confining Sound Waves in Superfluid Helium

13 May 2021

Researchers at Royal Holloway have proposed a new system for using superfluid helium 4 in a cavity optomechanical system.

Superfluid helium-3 research helps assess the feasibility of topologically protected quantum computation.

12 Mar 2021

Research on mesoscopic superfluid helium-3 demonstrates the fragility of surface-bound states, an important step in the quest to identify and harness Majorana fermions.

When phase transitions in quantum matter meet entanglement

09 Dec 2020

Theoretical physicists reveal sharp entanglement variations at a phase transition in correlated quantum matter