### 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

• #### The dust-to-stellar mass ratio as a valuable tool to probe the evolution of local and distant star forming galaxies ﻿

(Oxford University Press, 2017-02-11)
The survival of dust grains in galaxies depends on various processes. Dust can be produced in stars, it can grow in the interstellar medium and be destroyed by astration and interstellar shocks. In this paper, we assemble ...
• #### Surface-acoustic-wave-defined dynamic quantum dots ﻿

(Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Universtity of Cambridge, 2008-07-08)
The strain associated with a surface acoustic wave (SAW) propagating across a piezoelectric medium creates a travelling electric potential. Gallium Arsenide is such a piezoelectric material, and so SAWs can be used with ...
• #### The Discovery of Gas-Rich, Dusty Starbursts in Luminous Reddened Quasars at $z\sim2.5$ with ALMA ﻿

(Oxford University Press, 2016-11-22)
We present ALMA observations of cold dust and molecular gas in four high-luminosity, heavily reddened (A$_{\rm{V}} \sim 2.5-6$ mag) Type 1 quasars at $z\sim2.5$ with virial M$_{\rm{BH}} \sim 10^{10}$M$_\odot$, to test ...