I am at a conference called Compound Nuclear Reactions ’26 in Fukuoka, Japan. I’m here to present work from the PhD of Khlood Alharthi and to support another PhD student Sam Sullivan who is here to present his own work. I’ve been moved to write a blog post, though, by seeing a slide from one […]
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The latest book from our Distinguished Professor Jim Al-Khalili, On Time, has just been published. A little video introduction to the book that he has prepared for the publisher is linked to below. If you have read the book and have any comments, we’d be delighted to hear! Click here for the video
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Yesterday, my PhD student Joe Gibbs successfully defened his PhD thesis in front of internal examiner Jack Henderson and external examiner Andrew Green from UCL. Joe’s thesis covers quite a broad range of topics broadly linked by quantum computing algorithms with nuclear physics algorithms. Some of that linking includes finding classical ways of solving problems […]
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Quantum Computing is a emerging and potentially transformative technology. It involves the construction and use of a fundamentally new type of computer which exploits some aspects of quantum mechanics in a way allowing the solution of problems which are provably too complicated for existing computing technology. The Physics Department at Surrey is involved in research […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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