Physics Department News

Quantum computers are capable of solving certain problems whose scale lies outside that of classical computers. For some of these problems not even the solution can be efficiently checked with a classical computer. While schemes can verify an arbitrary quantum computation with a limited set of quantum operations, the minimum quantum resources to perform such a verification is an open question. Samuele, Theodoros, and Animesh from the quantum information group have published a paper on verification in Physical Review A (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.022323) demonstrating an improvement on the existing requirements for schemes to verify quantum computations. In this work the authors demonstrate a verification scheme which works with a further reduced number of such quantum operations.

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In the 2018 National Student Survey, Physics achieved an overall student satisfaction of 91%. This puts us 4th for overall student satisfaction and 2nd for Assessment and Feedback in the Russell Group universities for physics.

The government’s 2018 Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset has found that Warwick physical sciences graduates are ranked 5th in the UK for high earnings five years after graduation.

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey showed that 97.3% of students, who graduated in 2017 with an undergraduate degree in a Physics course from Warwick are working, or studying, or both, which is the highest across all the science departments within the university. Graduate prospects are also excellent with 87.4% of those in work or study in graduate level work or study.

A research team led by members of the Astronomy and Astrophysics group had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first of confirmed neutron star merger to re-emerge from behind the glare of the sun.

They were rewarded with the first confirmed visual sighting of a jet of material that was still streaming out from merged star exactly 110 days after that initial cataclysmic merger event was first observed. Their observations confirm a key prediction about the aftermath of neutron star mergers.