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The Department of Physics at the 91·çÃùÄñ³ª specializes in atomic, molecular, optical and chemical physics, high energy density and plasma physics, condensed matter physics, and atmospheric sciences.

Recent news from the Department of Physics

A gold lattice with yellow light hitting it and bouncing off as a rainbow, with swirls of orange and yellow in the background.

Surviving the entropy catastrophe

Superheated gold overturns long-held theory of superheating

An illustration of interwoven blue and red particles expanding outwards in a disk, with white particles curving upward in a bell curve shape and moving toward the center in a squiggly pattern.

Theoretical physicist finds evidence quantum geometry can increase critical temperatures of superconductors

Quantum geometry is an underexplored area of physics but could have far-reaching implications

Four people stand in front of a research poster, talking.

Nevada NASA Space Grant recipients share progress on projects

Students in three colleges received funding for their research projects