Surrey Physics Blog

The blog about physics at the University of Surrey

On placement in Barcelona

The picture above shows Dr Arnau Rios (L) and Surrey Physics student Reece Cater (R) taken at the Unviersity of Barcelona last week. Reece is spending his year-long MPhys research placement out in Spain working with Dr Rios and his group on development of quantum computing algorithms to solve nuclear physics problems. Barcelona is one […]


Pear-shaped nuclei

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 […]


Quantum Computer Simulating Nuclei

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 […]


The Joy of Science: On Sale!

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


Sunrise on Campus

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 […]


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