Physics World

Physics World is the official magazine for members of the Institute of Physics, a leading organization in the field of physics globally. This monthly publication focuses on various topics within both pure and applied physics and is intended for physicists involved in research, industry, education, and outreach efforts around the world.

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Delta.g wins IOP's qBIG prize for its gravity sensors – Physics World

2 days ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage The UK-based company Delta.g has bagged the 2025 qBIG prize, which is awarded by the Institute of Physics (IOP). Initiated in 2023, qBIG celebrates and promotes the innovation and commercialization of quantum technologies in the UK and Ireland. Based in Birmingham, Delta.g makes quantum sensors that measure the local gravity gradient. This is done using atom interferometry, whereby laser pulses are fired at a cloud of...
Electrolysis workstation incorporates mass spectrometry to accelerate carbon-dioxide reduction research – Physics World

2 days ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

Scribner’s 670 Electrolysis Workstation is used to develop systems that convert electrical energy into fuels and chemical feedstocks The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide is used to produce a range of chemical and energy feedstocks including syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide), formic acid, methane and ethylene. As well as being an important industrial process, the large-scale reduction of carbon dioxide by electrolysis offers a practical way to capture and utilize carbon dioxide....
Ray Dolby Centre opens at the University of Cambridge – Physics World

6 days ago | physicsworld.com | Michael Banks

A ceremony has been held today to officially open the Ray Dolby Centre at the University of Cambridge. Named after the Cambridge physicist and sound pioneer Ray Dolby, who died in 2013, the facility is the new home of the Cavendish Laboratory and will feature 173 labs as well as lecture halls, workshops, cleanrooms and offices.
Neutrons differentiate between real and fake antique coins – Physics World

1 week ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

The presence of hydrogen in a sample is usually a bad thing in neutron scattering experiments, but now researchers in the US have turned the tables on the lightest element and used it to spot fake antique coins. The scattering of relatively slow moving neutrons from materials provides a wide range of structural information.
Organic magic: Ji-Seon Kim on how carbon-based semiconductors are shaping our present and future – Physics World

1 week ago | physicsworld.com | Laura Hiscott

Ji-Seon Kim, who won the 2023 Nevill Mott Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics, talks to Laura Hiscott about the transformative potential of carbon-based semiconductors, the need for strong international research collaboration, and the irreplaceable excitement of tangible experiences in the lab In a sunny office, Ji-Seon Kim holds up a sheet of stripy plastic. In the middle of dark blue and transparent bands, a small red glow catches the eye, clearly visible even against the bright...
Quantum twisting microscope measures phasons in cryogenic graphene – Physics World

1 week ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

By adapting their quantum twisting microscope to operate at cryogenic temperatures, researchers have made the first observations of a type of phonon that occurs in twisted bilayer graphene. These “phasons” could have implications for the electron dynamics in these materials.
The mechanics behind rose petal shapes revealed – Physics World

1 week ago | physicsworld.com | Michael Banks

Roses have been cultivated for thousands of years, admired for their beauty. Despite their use in fragrance, skincare and even in teas and jams, there are some things, however, that we still don’t know about these symbolic flowers. And that includes the physical mechanism behind the shape of rose petals. The curves and curls of leaves and flower petals arise due to the interplay between their natural growth and geometry.
Ferenc Krausz explains how ultrashort laser pulses could help detect disease – Physics World

2 weeks ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the Nobel laureate Ferenc Krausz. He is director of the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor at LMU Munich, both in Germany, and CEO and scientific director of the Center for Molecular Fingerprinting in Budapest, Hungary.
Ask me anything: Hannah Earley – ‘I love theory, but seeing an idea get closer and closer to reality is great’ – Physics World

2 weeks ago | physicsworld.com | Margaret Harris

Hannah Earley is the chief technical officer and co-founder of Vaire Computing Vaire Computing is a start-up seeking to commercialize computer chips based on the principles of reversible computing – a topic Earley studied during her PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, UK. The central idea behind reversible computing is that reversible operations use much less energy, and thus generate much less waste heat, than those in conventional computers. In...
Quantum transducer enables optical control of a superconducting qubit – Physics World

2 weeks ago | physicsworld.com | Liam Critchley

The future of quantum communication and quantum computing technologies may well revolve around superconducting qubits and quantum circuits, which have already been shown to improve processing capabilities over classical supercomputers – even when there is noise within the system. This scenario could be one step closer with the development of a novel quantum transducer by a team headed up at the Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).