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Universal Gates from Braiding and Fusing Anyons on Quantum Hardware

July 21, 2026

A quantum computer requires the ability to store and manipulate information globally to protect against local noise. Topologically ordered phases offer two routes: encoding information in the ground-state subspace or in anyonic excitations. The toric code...

L. Mahadevan Receives Inaugural Suzanne Eaton Award

July 12, 2026

L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics if the recipient of the 2026 Suzanne Eaton Physics of Life Award. His work has helped define physics of life by showing how a...

Chung Named McKnight Scholar

March 26, 2026

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Prof. SueYeon Chung as a 2026 McKnight Scholar. The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and...

2026 Hertz Fellowships

May 05, 2026

Congratulatons to our students—past, present, and future—on being awarded Hertz Foundation Fellowhips in the applied sciences, engineering and mathematics: Andrew Chu '26, Elizabeth Kozlov '25, Miller MacDonald '26, Nikhil Seshadri '26, and Eric Zhu...

2026 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes for excellence in undergraduate work

May 05, 2026

C lockwise from top left: Larom Segev, Christopher Prainito, Mary Imparato Cipperman, Miller MacDonald, and Ashini Modi Congratulations to students who won 2026 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes for excellence in undergraduate work and in the art of teaching...

Congratulations to Winners of 2026 Harvard Student Prizes!

April 30, 2025

Physics department is inviting all its members to celebrate the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students with a festive awards presentation on May 4, 2026, at 3:30pm in Jefferson 450 ! Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics Awarded to...

Kang-Kuen Ni receives Brown Investigator Award

April 22, 2026

Kang-Kuen Ni, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, has been named to the 2026 class of Brown Investigators, a cohort of midcareer faculty recognized for bold, curiosity-driven research in physics and chemistry. Each...

Lee Historical Lectures in Physics: Giorgio Parisi, Apr 21, 2026

April 01, 2025

Giorgio Parisi Emeritus Professor, La Sapienza University of Roma 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics "Spin Glasses, Complexity and All That" Tuesday, April 21, 2026 @4:30PM Jefferson Lab, Room 250 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Abstract: I will recall the...

Chung Awarded Aramont Fellowship  for Emerging Science Research

March 26, 2026

Congratulations to Prof. SueYeon Chung, a recipient of the Aramont Fellowship Fund for Emerging Science Research for “The Physics of Intelligence: Linking Neural Representations and AI Safety and Alignment.” AI systems increasingly influence decisions...

Khalaf, Mitrano Receives 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships

February 17, 2026

Congratulations to Professors Eslam Khalaf and Matteo Mitrano, who are among the 126 early-career researchers selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2026! Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and...

Yao Awarded 2025 OYRA Ardentec Prize

January 16, 2026

Prof. Norman Yao has been awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award (otherwise known as OYRA Ardentec Prize) by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers “for [his] seminal experimental and theoretical contributions at the...

Argüelles-Delgado Wins RCSA Bridge Award

January 14, 2026

Congratulations to Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado for winning an award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) for his research project Probing the Nature of Mass with Neutrino Telescopes. RCSA has awarded $800,000 to 11 Cottrell...