The Department of Physics at the University of Nevada, Reno 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

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

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Nevada NASA Space Grant recipients share progress on projects

Students in three colleges received funding for their research projects

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200-year-old prediction of Fourier confirmed in extreme plasmas for the first time

Discovery reshapes our understanding of heat transfer in extreme materials, with implications for inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density science