Celebrating International Astronomy Day 2022

03 May 2022

Have you ever looked to the stars and wished you knew more about them? Maybe you’ve been looking for a reason to dust off your telescope? Well, now is the perfect time to get involved in stargazing!

Women's History Month: The life and works of Marie Curie

25 Mar 2022

To celebrate Women's History Month, the department is looking back at the life and work of one of the most influential female physicists of all time: Marie Skłodowska-Curie.

Royal Holloway receives £2.3million investment for global particle physics research

10 Mar 2022

The STFC grant will allow the Centre at Royal Holloway to continue its growth and its influence in the field both in the UK and internationally for experimental particle physics

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

Royal Holloway Turing Network Development Award

23 Feb 2022

The development award from the Alan Turing Institute has been given to Royal Holloway researchers Greg Ashton (Department of Physics) and Nicolo Colombo (Department of Computer Science).

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.

New funding given to help solve the mysteries of the universe

14 Jan 2021

Researchers will use cutting-edge quantum technologies to transform our understanding of the universe and answer key questions such as the nature of dark matter and black holes.

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

Physics is third of the Guardian league table

22 Sept 2020

The Physics department at Royal Holloway is ranked third in the 2020 UK Guardian league table.

Royal Holloway is a UK project partner for phase 2 upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider

18 Sept 2020

Academics at Royal Holloway Physics are part of a group of scientists, engineers and technicians from the UK to embark on a £26M project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.