Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter imbalance, the paper stated. A thorough mathematical investigation of this ...

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three pioneers in bringing its ...

Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s ...

For bringing quantum effects to a scale once thought impossible, three physicists have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics. In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated the ...

UC Berkeley professor emeritus John Clarke shares Nobel Prize in Physics with 2 proteges, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, now professors at UC Santa Barbara. Clarke says he thought the call at 2 a.m ...

Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for putting quantum mechanics into action and enabling the development of all kinds of ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research into quantum ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...