### 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

• #### Excitons in topological Kondo insulators: Theory of thermodynamic and transport anomalies in SmB$_{6}$ ﻿

(American Physical Society, 2017-03-03)
Kondo insulating materials lie outside the usual dichotomy of weakly versus correlated-band versus Mott-insulators. They are metallic at high temperatures but resemble band insulators at low temperatures because of the ...
• #### An ultra-dense fast outflow in a quasar at z = 2.4 ﻿

(Oxford University Press, 2017-02-07)
We present adaptive optics assisted near-IR integral field spectroscopic observations of a luminous quasar at z = 2.4, previously observed as the first known example at high redshift of large-scale quasar-driven outflow ...