Berkeley Physics

09/09/2026

Monday, September 14 come to the Physics Colloquium with Aaron Manalaysay: Who ordered that? An anomalous event in the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search.
https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/323804-physics-colloquium-with-aaron-manalaysay-who-ordered-

09/09/2026

Join us Monday, September 14 for the Condensed Matter Seminar featuring EECS Professor in the Graduate School Eli Yablonovitch: Can Physics Expedite Artificial Intenlligence?
https://events.berkeley.edu/physics/event/327783-condensed-matter-seminar-with-eli-yablonovitch-can-ph

09/09/2026

Exciting news for the Quantum Innovation Corridor! welcomes to the Roger Herst Quantum Nexus—its 1st U.S. office. Partnering with Prof. Irfan Siddiqi’s lab, they’re automating qubit control to accelerate next-gen quantum R&D.
https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley-welcomes-quantrolox-its-quantum-innovation-corridor

09/02/2026

Congratulations to Steven Louie, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, on his election to the Academia Europaea!
https://physics.berkeley.edu/news/steve-louie-elected-foreign-member-academia-europea

09/02/2026

A tantalizing signal from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment could point to WIMPs, a leading dark matter candidate. Members of UC Berkeley’s Dan McKinsey group are part of the effort to determine whether the interaction is truly a sign of dark matter.

Key Takeaways Dark matter is the mysterious substance that accounts for the vast majority of matter in our universe. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a world-leading dark matter detector and specializes in searching for WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. A new LZ study found one particle interaction....

08/31/2026

Join us TODAY August 21 at 2:30pm in 141 McCone Hall for the first Condensed Matter Seminar of the semester, featuring Thierry Martin: Detection of anyon scaling dimension and braiding properties in the fractional Quantum Hall Effect

For the almost half of a century, anyons in the FQHE have been proposed as excitations which carry fractional charge and statistics, thus bridging ...

08/25/2026

Quantum research is getting a major boost! NSF is investing $37.5 million over five years to renew the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation, led by UC Berkeley and bringing together leading universities across California. The institute will advance quantum computing, quantum information science, and next-generation quantum technologies.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is renewing its support for the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (NSF CIQC), a multi-institutional research center spanning California and led by UC Berkeley.

08/19/2026

In the latest installment of After Office Hours, Saul Perlmutter recounts his team's discovery of our universe's accelerating expansion.

In the latest installment of After Office Hours, Saul Perlmutter recounts his team's discovery of our universe's accelerating expansion.

08/04/2026

Professor Feng Wang and former graduate student Ruishi Qi report the first tunable Bose-Einstein condensate in a semiconductor—a breakthrough with implications for quantum information science, quantum simulation, and next-generation optoelectronics.

The advance establishes a new solid-state platform for studying high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates in semiconductor devices, and could one day advance quantum information science, quantum simulations, coherent optoelectronics, and future exciton-based devices.

07/28/2026

Congratulations to Professor Dung-Hai Lee, recipient of the 2026 John Bardeen Prize for pioneering theoretical contributions to the understanding of unconventional superconductivity. The award is shared with Andrew J. Millis and Michael R. Norman.
https://physics.berkeley.edu/news/dung-hai-lee-awarded-john-bardeen-prize