Surrey Physics Blog

The results of a recent nuclear physics experiment featuring Surrey physicisits has just been published in joint papers – one in Physical Review Letters, and one in Physical Review C. The experiment, in collaboration with authors from 12 institutions, found the most extreme “octupole” shaped nucleus to date. The nucleus in question is an isotope […]

I have just made an advertisment for a PhD studentship, starting at Surrey in October 2025. It is on the overlap between quantum computing and nuclear physics, and is available to UK nationals only. If you are interested, more details are here. This is not my own personal blog though, and I should say that […]

A new paper has appeared today in the journal Quantum Machine Intelligence written by our PhD student Joe Gibbs (along with an internal PhD supervisor and external collaborator). The paper describes his work on developing algorithms for current and future quantum computers to simulate real physical systems. He took a simple model of the nucleus […]

If you are reading this blog post within a week of it being written, then get yourself over to the Princeton University Press Autumn Sale, where you will find 70% off Jim Al-Khalili’s The Joy of Science. A bargain even at full price, it can by yours for £3.90 (+ postage) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211572/the-joy-of-science

Thanks to the algorithms of social networks, I was reminded that I had taken a nice picture of campus ten years ago today. At that time I was living on campus as a warden in the student residences, and I took the very short walk in to my office quite early that morning as the […]

I have just completed a trip to Jefferson Laboratory in Virginia, USA.  I came because we have a University of Surrey Physics student on placement at the lab as part of his Research Year, and I was visiting him.  All Surrey MPhys students on Physics programmes (“Physics” and “Physics with …”) have a compulsory Research […]