Department of Physics

UW scientists explain new developments in the field of quantum computing.

New experiments have answered the decades-old question of how pieces of splitting nuclei get their spins. George Bertsch, professor emeritus of physics at the UW, is quoted.

Miguel Morales, professor of physics, has authored a new series on quantum mechanics for a general audience.

David Bell, PhD student in physics, and Savannah Lomelli, art student, discuss how they're spending the holidays in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Physicists at the University of Washington have discovered that by layering 2D materials (like a stack of pancakes), rotating them in particular configurations and exposing them to extremely low temperatures, the layers exhibit "exotic and unexpected" properties.

UW's Department of Physics  the University of Hong Kong and others quickly assembled a team to learn how B cells, a central player in adaptive immunity, were engaging this enemy.

Emeritus Professor Eric Adelberger, Professor Jens Gundlach, and Professor Blayne Heckel are the recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Three physics professors at the UW have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in physics.

Researchers at the UW, working on the understanding of gravity, have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics.

Three UW physics professors have won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Physics.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to establish a NSF Research Traineeship at the UW for graduate students in quantum information science and technology, or QIST.

Michael McCarthy, physics research assistant professor, explains the results of a new study on fruit flies.

John Cramer, professor of physics, is weighing in with a potential solution to one of the longest-running puzzles in quantum mechanics: a phenomenon known as wave function collapse.

Katie McCormick, postdoctoral scholar in physics, explains how lasers can produce the slowest thing on earth.

Mengyu Yan, physics postdoctorate and Mitchell Kaiser, chemistry graduate student are developing a tool that uses electromagnetism to destroy viruses and bacteria.