### Sub-communities within this community

• #### Astrophysics

Wide range of research programmes linked to experimental and instrumental programmes at the cutting edge of astronomical technology
• #### Atomic, Mesoscopic, and Optical Physics

Research centred on the development of understanding of quantum aspects of condensed matter, from atomic Bose-Einstein condensates to semiconductor quantum dots
• #### Biological and Soft Systems

Research areas include biophysics, biomaterials, nanoscience and Physics of Medicine, using techniques and inspirations from classical polymer physics, soft matter physics and the study of condensed matter

• #### Detector Physics

A major facility for designing, manufacturing and testing a new generation of superconducting detectors for astrophysics and the applied sciences
• #### High Energy Physics

Work based upon experiments at high energy particle accelerators, with group members making up part of international collaborations
• #### Inference Group

Involved in a wide range of projects in the general area of machine learning and information theory
• #### NanoPhotonics

New materials are constructed in which atoms are arranged in sophisticated ways on the nanometre-scale; these meta-materials often display properties that are not observed in the constituents they are made from
• #### Opto-and Microelectronics

Fundamental physics studies in different aspects of organic semiconductor materials, aiming to understand the physics at the detailed quantum mechanical level
• #### Quantum Matter

Studies matter under extreme conditions, i.e. at very low temperatures, high magnetic fields and high pressure, using advanced experimental techniques
• #### Semiconductor Physics

Explores and develops new physics using state-of-the-art semiconductor device fabrication technology
• #### Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture

Covers the areas of surface physics, microstructure, fracture and microscopy
• #### Theory of Condensed Matter

Carries out world leading research, broadly categorised under: collective quantum phenomena, first principles quantum mechanical methods, and soft matter
• #### Thin Film Magnetism

At the forefront of ultrathin magnetic film and magnetic nanostructure research

### Recent Submissions

• #### Controlling the canted state in antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic bilayers close to the spin reorientation transition ﻿

(AIP, 2017-03-10)
Canted magnetization is obtained in ultrathin, antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic bilayers with thicknesses around the spin reorientation transition. The canting angle is controlled by both the magnetic layer thickness ...
• #### Controlling domain wall nucleation and injection through focussed ion beam irradiation in perpendicularly magnetized nanowires ﻿

(AIP Publishing, 2017-01-18)
Using Ga$^{+}$ focussed ion beam irradiation of Ta/Pt/CoFeB/Pt perpendicularly magnetized nanowires, the nucleation and injection fields of domain walls into the nanowires is controlled. The nucleation and injection fields ...
• #### Fast GPU-Based Seismogram Simulation from Microseismic Events in Marine Environments Using Heterogeneous Velocity Models ﻿

(IEEE, 2017)
A novel approach is presented for fast generation of synthetic seismograms due to microseismic events, using heterogeneous marine velocity models. The partial differential equations (PDEs) for the 3D elastic wave equation ...
• #### 325 and 610 MHz radio counterparts of SNR G353.6−0.7 also known as HESS J1731−347 ﻿

(Oxford University Press, 2017-01-11)
HESS J1731−347 also known as SNR G353.6−0.7 is one of the five known shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) emitting in the very high energy (VHE, energy > 0.1 TeV) γ-ray domain. We observed this TeV SNR with the Giant ...