Department of Physics

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.

UW honors longtime Harvard professor and one of America's leading climate change scientists, James Anderson (BS, Physics, 1966).

Selected from 1,223 nominees from across the country, Natural Sciences undergraduates Chris Moore and Irika Sinha were named Goldwater Scholars.

Thouless was a theoretical physicist whose most well-known work focused on the properties of matter in extremely thin layers.  

Learn about how this exciting new coalition aimed at bringing about a revolution in quantum research and technology.

Shih-Chieh Hsu, associate professor of physics at UW, and the rest of the FASER team seek to answer one of the outstanding questions in particle physics: What is dark matter made of?

A team of UW-led physicists reports that it has developed a new system to trap individual excitons — bound pairs of electrons and their associated positive charges

UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials.

Physics Graduate Student Rachel Osofsky is quoted about her work adjusting the magnetic field of a new electromagnetic ring.

For a team led by scientists at the UW, the 2-D form of one metallic compound — tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2 — is a bevy of quantum revelations. 

A University of Washington-led team is working on a magnetic breakthrough that may revolutionize both cloud computing technologies and consumer electronics.

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at the University of Washington is the world's first experiment to be sensitive enough to "hear" the signs of dark matter axions.

The research team at the UW have announced that the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is officially sensitive enough to find the theoretically predicted axion.

A physics student explores the possibilities of quantum computing — with help from a Microsoft Research Fellowship.

Jason Detwiler is an assistant professor of physics at the University of Washington, and he’s on the hunt for a natural phenomenon that is insanely rare.