Physics Department News

On Saturday 15^th November, Professor Rachel Edwards (Deputy Head of Department, Inclusion, Outreach and Engagement), was invited to speak at the world-renowned Royal Institution in London.

Astronomers Professor Andrew Levan and Professor Danny Steeghs, founding members and part of the key ENGRAVELink opens in a new window committees, have been awarded the 'Into Change'Link opens in a new window award which honours outstanding European research that drives scientific breakthroughs.

The team have shown how the universe's heaviest elements are forged in rare and powerful involving neutron stars, known as kilonovae, and their results were recently showcased in our annual Christmas Lectures.

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An international collaboration of scientists, including Warwick physicists Drs. John Marshall, Andy Chappell and Ryan Cross, have shown that a fourth type of neutrino can't explain anomalous results from earlier neutrino experiments.

The Quantum Information Science group has developed a new technique to evaluate the fundamental limits to the precision of estimating parameters of a quantum matter system probed by light, even when some of the light is lost. The work has been published in PRX Quantum.