What's Current in

Physics

Image
science illustration
Photo Credit
Illustration by Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration showing a two-dimensional collection of interacting spins in a diamond lattice.
Image
illustration of two scientists
Photo Credit
Illustration Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
UCSB physics professors John Martinis, left, and Michel Devoret
Image
photo of the the LZ experiment's outer detector
Photo Credit
Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment
Image
Gary Horowitz in blue collared shirt on blue background.
Photo Credit
Jeff Liang
Gary Horowitz
Image
artists' rendering of a sun and its planet-forming disk
Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope
Image
images of six galaxies taken with the James Webb Space Telescope
Photo Credit
M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration
Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 billion years ago
Image
woman with dark hair in forest
Photo Credit
Lyn Photography
Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu
Image
photo of world's first quantum topological processor
Photo Credit
Used with permission from Microsoft
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q's 2025 conference
Image
green and purple objects
Photo Credit
Fangzhou ZhaoI, Van de Walle group
Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions.
Image
two men standing against a gray background
Photo Credit
Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller