Congratulations to Dr Petra Knappova

22 Jul 2024

Dr Petra Knappova completed her viva on the 27th of June!

College Team Teaching Award for Physics Dept

11 Jul 2024

Royal Holloway Physics won the Team Teaching Award for the RHUL Education Conference 2024. RHUL Physics and SEPnet have boosted employability for our graduates and increased placement opportunities.

Spotting the incipient quantum chromodynamics critical point

25 Jun 2024

A theoretical framework based on the general properties of critical phenomena can reveal when quark matter is approaching the critical point between a gas of hadrons and a plasma of quarks and gluons

Science Festival 2024

20 Jun 2024

On Saturday 15 June, Royal Holloway hosted its Science Festival.

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

Royal Holloway Welcomes Astronomers Justyn Maund and Alessio Spurio Mancini to the Physics Department

09 Feb 2024

Royal Holloway, University of London, has announced the appointment of distinguished astronomers Justyn Maund and Alessio Spurio Mancini to its esteemed physics department.

Sparking the future of Physics

06 Feb 2024

A new proposal for a much larger supercollider that could revolutionise physics and spark the future is being explored.

EPSRC Visits Royal Holloway to Discuss Quantum Technologies Funding

31 Oct 2023

Royal Holloway had the honour of hosting representatives from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) today.

Royal Holloway enters US and UK research partnership to advance quantum information science

19 Jun 2023

Partnership will lead to new quantum devices, insights into their performance, ways to harness quantum information and discoveries in fundamental physics.

Superconducting quantum circuits take a cold bath

16 Jun 2023

New cooling technology developed for quantum computing circuits.

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.

FASER detects first ever high energy neutrinos produced by a particle collider 

22 Mar 2023

The discovery promises to help physicists understand the nature of the universe’s most abundant particle.