Department of Physics

A team led by researchers from the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published their results this week in the journal Nature.

A team led by the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has for the first time discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers.

Four graduate students are receiving the A&S Graduate Medal along with their PhDs.

Ernest Mark Henley, a celebrated nuclear physicist and University of Washington administrator, died on March 27, 2017, at age 92.

Hans Dehmelt, former professor in Physics at the UW and Nobel Laureate, passed away at 94.

The German-born physicist, who spent most of his career at the UW, died earlier this month. He was 94.

African Americans make up 7 percent of American college and university faculty. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the UW, is featured.

In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is preparing to test a network of radio relays on sea buoys (developed by the UW's Applied Physics Lab) and connected via fiber-optic cable.

The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line.

It can be unsettling to realize that only 5 percent of the universe is made of the kind of matter we know and understand. Leslie Rosenberg, professor of physics at the UW, is quoted.

Microsoft says it’s moving ahead from just talking about quantum computing to building an actual quantum computer, based on the physics that won a Nobel Prize this year.

Researchers have come up with a way to allow one quantum computer component to efficiently transmit information to another, without losing its quantum character. 

Instead of being unique to human cells, it turns out that Terasaki "ramps" show up elsewhere, too: in the crust of collapsed stars.

Supercomputer calculation suggests hypothesized particle may be heavier than thought.