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

A woman and man speak in front of a scientific poster.

Jaya Sicard receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Sicard will study high energy density science at UC Berkeley

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