Nonlinear dynamics of active particles
Dr Rahil Valani provides an introduction to active matter (a field focusing on active particles' nonlinear dynamical behaviors) exploring th...
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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics host a morning of Theoretical Physics roughly three times a year on a Saturday morning. The mornings consist of three talks pitch...
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20 of 97 episodesThe physics of “flat” electrons
Dr Dumitru Călugăru explores the main strategies for engineering flat band materials, discusses band topology concepts and their relevance t...
How to program a quantum computer
Dr Dominik Hahn explains how a quantum computer is built, discusses how quantum operations are programmed in a way similar to classical comp...
A New Twist on Topology: The Rise of “Moiré Materials”
Prof Sid Parameswaran discusses how quantum condensed matter physics has been revolutionized by “moiré materials”, made by stacking individu...
Anyons: New Types of Particles in Quantum Physics
While it was originally believed that only bosons and fermions were allowed by quantum mechanics, in fact, when objects are restricted to mo...
Topology in the Physics of Condensed Matter
Prof Shivaji Sondhi explains how topology is applied to understanding properties of condensed matter systems, providing an introduction to t...
The Hubble Tension
Professor Prateek Agrawal discusses the ongoing crisis in cosmology regarding the measurement of the Hubble parameter by two separate probes...
Cosmic strings and gravitational waves from the early Universe
Professor Edward Hardy discusses how the network of cosmic strings that occurs in some theories of the early Universe evolves and emits grav...
Chirality in living systems
Prof Alexander Mietke discusses recent findings in this field that have linked chirality in living systems to the formation of a left-right...
Imaging living systems
Dr Adrien Hallou presents a new methodology called 'spatial mechano-transcriptomics', which allows the simultaneous measurement of the mecha...
Statistical physics of living systems
Professor Julia Yeomans describes how mechanical models are being extended to incorporate the unique properties of living systems Epithelial...
The Miracle of Quantum Error Correction
In this talk, Benedikt Placke introduces QEC and explains how the unique interplay between the classical and the quantum world enables us to...
Simulating physics beyond computer power
In this talk Alessio Lerose discusses the seminal idea of simulating Nature via a controllable quantum system rather than a classical comput...
A liquid of quarks and gluons
Jasmine Brewer covers recent progress on studying the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, and describe how we can capitalize on lessons le...
Possible sources for the gravitational wave background
Dr Yonadav Barry Ginat - Possible sources for the gravitational wave background The detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of...
Searching for the origin of black hole mergers in the Universe with gravitational waves
Prof Bence Kocsis - Searching for the origin of black hole mergers in the Universe with gravitational waves The direct detection of gravitat...
Gravitational radiation: an overview
Prof Steven Balbus - Gravitational radiation: an overview General Relativity, Einstein’s relativistic theory of gravity, predicts that the e...
How the weird and wonderful properties of magnetised laser plasmas could ignite fusion-energy research
Archie Bott explains how a promising scheme for fusion relies on a novel feature of hot laser-plasmas: introducing a magnetic field of the c...
Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion
Georgia Acton introduces stellarators, discusses the features that distinguish them from tokamaks, highlight the challenges we currently fac...
Magnetic confinement fusion: Science that’s hotter than a Kardashian Instagram post
Michael Barnes introduces the basic concepts behind magnetic confinement fusion, he describes why it is so challenging and discusses possibi...