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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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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 ... -
Ammonium fluoride's analogy to ice: possibilities and limitations
Ammonium fluoride, NH4F, is often seen as an analogue to ice, with several of its solid phases closely resembling known ice phases. While its ionic and hydrogen-ordered nature puts topological constraints on the ice-like ... -
Raw data for Barium Polyhydride
Dataset relating to "Synthesis of Weaire-Phelan Barium Polyhydride". By combining pressures up to 50 GPa and temperatures of 1200 K, we synthesize the novel barium hydride, Ba8H46, stable down to 27 GPa. We use Raman ... -
Field Induced Modulated State in the Ferromagnet PrPtAl
Data supporting the paper: O'Neill, C. D., Abdul-Jabbar, G., Wermeille, D., Bourges, P., Kruger, F., & Huxley, A. D. (Accepted/In press). "A field induced modulated state in the ferromagnet PrPtAl". Physical Review Letters. ... -
Raw DFT data for "High-temperature phase transitions in dense germanium"
Through a series of high-pressure x-ray diffraction experiments combined with in situ laser heating, we explore the pressure–temperature phase diagram of germanium (Ge) at pressures up to 110 GPa and temperatures exceeding ... -
Rules of formation of H–C–N–O compounds at high pressure and the fates of planetary ices
The solar system’s outer planets, and many of their moons, are dominated by matter from the H–C–N–O chemical space, based on solar system abundances of hydrogen and the planetary ices H2O, CH4 , and NH3 . In the planetary ... -
Particle sizing for flowing colloidal suspensions using flow-differential dynamic microscopy
Dataset for "Particle sizing for flowing colloidal suspensions using flow-differential dynamic microscopy". Particle size is a key variable in understanding the behaviour of the particulate products that underpin much of ... -
Changes of Fermi Surface Topology due to the Rhombohedral Distortion in SnTe
Stoichiometric SnTe is theoretically a small gap semiconductor that undergoes a ferroelectric distortion on cooling. In reality however, crystals are always nonstoichiometric and metallic; the ferroelectric transition is ... -
The long term epidemic predictions from Imperial College CovidSim Report 9
A single tarball containing several directories, corresponding to the figures and tables in our paper. Raw simulation output is provided alongside python scripts to process it, and scripts to reproduce it from the original ... -
BioRock rare earth element leaching data
Sets of data from the ESA BioRock experiment showing biomining/bioleaching of elements (rare earth elements). Experiment on board of the International Space Station to study microbe-mineral interactions in space. Data in ... -
Swimming suppresses correlations in dilute suspensions of pusher microorganisms
Active matter exhibits various forms of non-equilibrium states in the absence of external forcing, including macroscopic steady-state currents. Such states are often too complex to be modelled from first principles and our ... -
Turning a yield-stress calcite suspension into a shear-thickening one by tuning inter-particle friction
We show that a suspension of non-Brownian calcite particles in glycerol-water mixtures can be tuned continuously from being a yield-stress suspension to a shear-thickening suspension without a measurable yield stress by ... -
Understanding high pressure molecular hydrogen with a hierarchical machine-learned potential
The hydrogen phase diagram has several unusual features which are well reproduced by density functional calculations. Unfortunately, these calculations do not provide good physical insights into why those features occur. ... -
Interaction between Nearly Hard Colloidal Spheres at an Oil-Water Interface v2
We show that the interaction potential between sterically stabilised, nearly hard-sphere (PMMA-PLMA) colloids at a water-oil interface has a negligible unscreened-dipole contribution, suggesting that models previously ...
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