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The School of Physics & Astronomy is one of the leading Physics departments in the UK, carrying out research in a broad range of areas such as Astronomy, Cosmology, Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics and Astrobiology.
Researchers in the School are regularly involved in high-impact work such as the search for the Higgs Boson, the study of the oldest galaxies in the Universe, and investigating the nature of the "dark matter" and "dark energy", which make up 95% of the universe.
The School's research varies from being highly fundamental to very applied and a number of our research groups are involved in collaborative projects with industrial partners.
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Extreme Conditions Physics
how materials react and change when being subjected to extremes of pressure, temperature etc
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Multicomponent odd-parity superconductivity in UAu2 at high pressure
Supporting data for accepted manuscript appearing in PNAS. -
Contactless Interfacial Rheology: Example Jupyter Notebook for image analysis
Contactless interfacial rheology. Example Jupyter Notebook for image analysis similar to C-code used here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07057. Related image dataset available here: https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/4743. ... -
Contactless Interfacial Rheology: Probing Shear at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces without an Interfacial Geometry via Fluorescence Microscopy
Interfacial rheology is important for understanding properties such as Pickering emulsion or foam stability. Currently, the response is measured using a probe directly attached to the interface. This can both disturb the ... -
The water activity of Mars-relevant multi-component brines
A collection of water activity data, calculated using the Pitzer model, for Mars-relevant brines. Abstract: Low water activity limits the habitability of aqueous environments, and salts present on Mars are known to ... -
Simulating the chromatin mediated phase separation of model proteins with multiple domains
Simulation data related to the paper "Simulating the chromatin mediated phase separation of model proteins with multiple domains". We perform simulations of a system containing simple model proteins and a polymer representing ... -
Density and temperature controlled fluid extraction in a bacterial biofilm is determined by poly-gamma-glutamic acid production
A hallmark of microbial biofilms is the self-production of extracellular matrix that encases the cells resident within the community. The matrix provides protection from the environment, while spatial heterogeneity of ... -
High-resolution simulations of chromatin folding at genomic rearrangements in malignant B cells provide mechanistic insights on proto-oncogene deregulation
Simulation and experimental data and related scripts associated with the paper "High-resolution simulations of chromatin folding at genomic rearrangements in malignant B cells provide mechanistic insights on proto-oncogene ... -
Data for "Interpreted machine learning in fluid dynamics" Lellep et al., Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022
This dataset is the supplementary data for the publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05541. Machine Learning (ML) is becoming increasingly popular in fluid dynamics. Powerful ML algorithms such as neural networks or ... -
All-purpose, all-sky photometric redshifts for the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR8
This dataset contains the catalogues described in Duncan et al. (2022), which presents photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, currently the most ... -
Characteristics of small protoplanetary disc warps in kinematic observations
Dataset for the paper "Characteristics of small protoplanetary disc warps in kinematic observations" which was published in MNRAS . The dataset contains the hydrodynamical and radiative transfer output files from which the ... -
Probing the dynamics of turbid colloidal suspensions using Differential Dynamic Microscopy
Dataset for the manuscript entitled 'Probing the dynamics of turbid colloidal suspensions using Differential Dynamic Microscopy': Few techniques can reliably measure the dynamics of colloidal suspensions or other soft ... -
Participation, performance, and outcomes in an undergraduate physics degree: Perspectives on gender and socioeconomic factors
Data for Figures 1-8 in the paper "Participation, performance, and outcomes in an undergraduate physics degree: Perspectives on gender and socioeconomic factors" by Rachel E Harrington, Job HJ Thijssen and Judy Hardy, to ... -
Changing the flow profile and resulting drying pattern of dispersion droplets via contact angle modification
Dataset corresponding to arXiv pre-print of: "Changing the flow profile and resulting drying pattern of dispersion droplets via contact angle modification". -
Bicontinuous Soft Solids with a Gradient in Channel Size Designed for Energy Storage Applications
Examples of bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels ("bijels") are presented with a designed gradient in the channel size along the sample. These samples are created by quenching binary fluids which have a gradient ... -
Mechanisms for destabilisation of RNA viruses at air-water and liquid-liquid interfaces
Understanding the interactions between viruses and surfaces or interfaces is important, as they provide the principles underpinning the cleaning and disinfection of contaminated surfaces. Yet, the physics of such interactions ... -
Characterising shear-induced dynamics in flowing complex fluids using differential dynamic microscopy
Microscopic dynamics reveal the origin of the bulk rheological response in complex fluids. In model systems particle motion can be tracked, but for industrially relevant samples this is often impossible. Here we adapt ... -
Complex small-world regulatory networks emerge from the 3D organisation of the human genome
The discovery that overexpressing one or a few critical transcription factors can switch cell state suggests that gene regulatory networks are relatively simple. In contrast, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) point ... -
Diffusion, phase behavior and gelation in a two-dimensional layer of colloids in osmotic equilibrium with a polymer reservoir
The addition of enough non-adsorbing polymer to an otherwise stable colloidal suspension gives rise to a variety of phase behavior and kinetic arrest due to the depletion attraction induced between the colloids by the ... -
Isotope quantum effects in the metallization transition in liquid hydrogen
Quantum effects in condensed matter normally only occur at low temperatures. Here we show a large quantum effect in high-pressure liquid hydrogen at thousands of Kelvins. We show that the metallization transition in ...
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