Research at the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics is organised into ten core themes.
These fields encompass a variety of research groups, each with its own scientific aims and ambitions but united by two common goals:
Click on each of the themes to learn more about our researchers and their work.
Study the unexplored Universe, from its very first moments to the late evolution of stars, galaxies and exoplanets.
Precision health, physical biology, the physics of medicine. Answer some of the most exciting questions in science through the study of living systems.
Help reshape the world energy economy and meet the huge scientific challenge of reaching a sustainable, zero-carbon future.
Explore how atoms, molecules, polymers and semiconductors can be combined to modify the behaviour of light, magnetism and thermal properties.
Join groups involved in major experiments at CERN and Fermilab, and in R&D projects for possible future Linear Colliders.
Delve into the fundamental physics of quantum systems, unlocking their potential to transform technology.
The design, development and testing of devices and systems that rely on the creation, control and manipulation of quantum states to deliver non-classical system performance.
Deploy core theoretical tools to make scientific advances across a range of complex physical systems.
The emergence of collective, macroscopically observable behaviour from interacting quantum systems yields surprising phenomena and new insights.
Large-scale quantum systems with tailored and tunable properties provide platforms for exploring emerging many-body quantum physics.