UCLA Physics
& Astronomy

Hanguo Wang and colleagues have developed a dark matter detector at UCLA to be used in future experiments, based on new photon-detector technology.

Astronomy professor Alice Shapley discusses "The Contribution of Galaxies to the Reionization of the Universe" at the University of Toledo.

Professor Claudio Pellegrini receives the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award from President Barack Obama at the White House.

UCLA astronomer Slava Turyshev and colleagues use the sun as a cosmic telescope to image the surface of exoplanets in astonishing detail.

Professor Jianwei "John" Miao led an international team in mapping the atomic-level details of the bimetallic nanoparticle, more than a trillion of which could fit within a grain of sand.

UCLA professor HongWen Jiang (center) and graduate students Blake Freeman and Joshua Schoenfield affixing a quantum dot device to the gold plate of a cooling chamber.

Astronomy Live! provides opportunities to explore physics and astronomy. Our outreach group set up telescopes and viewing areas for the public during the August 2017 eclipse.

Wesley Campbell and his team have demonstrated a proof of concept to show that biologically important atoms could be reliably cooled using lasers.

This enormous young planet, known as HD 106906b, is approximately 300 light-years from Earth. It has given astrophysicists a rare glimpse into planetary evolution.

Roger Ulrich and an international team of colleagues have found that the sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface, suggesting what the sun was like when it formed.

Researchers in Kang Wang's group explore the long-sought-after Majorana particle, which could be the foundation for a class of robust topological quantum computers.

Professor Alexander Kusenko and graduate student Eric Cotner suggest that black holes could have formed very shortly after the Big Bang, before stars began to shine.

Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez is a pioneering user of adaptive optics, which measures atmospheric distortions, then adjusts the telescope in real time to cancel out fluctuations.

Neuophysicist Mayank Mehta is the senior author of a Science article finding that the brain is ten times more active than previously measured.

The High-Energy Density Plasma (HEDP) Group studies experimental plasma physics with high-energy lasers, measuring energy, pulse shape, and repetition rate.

Eric Hudson and his AMO team are developing a new method that uses ultracold atoms as "ice cubes" to cool trapped molecular ions into their quantum ground state.

Wes Campbell, Eric Hudson, and colleagues show that trapping and cooling of a radioactive atom is an attractive system for encoding quantum information.