Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara

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Photons exchanging information between optical microcavities containing individual electron spins.

Professor Harry Nelson, right, a mile underground at the Homestake Mine near Lead, SD, readying the LUX experiment

Assistant Professor Ben Mazin wins Presidential Early Career Award

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Atomic Force Microscope image of bone revealing collagen fibrils with and without mineral plates.

Optical network of core-shell quantum dots communicating quantum spin information between nodes.

Grad student Kurt Soto reflected in the 10 meter mirror of the Keck telescope, used to gather data for his PhD thesis.

A graduate student in Professor Bouwmeester’s lab measures optical properties of photonic crystal microcavities.

Imaging and manipulating arrays of single spins in semiconductors.

Scanning Electron Microscope (Hansma lab) measuring bone strength.

Professor Ben Mazin's lab specializes in the development of superconducting detector and instruments for Astrophysics.

$A prototype Reference Point Indentation instrument developed in the Hansma lab measures bone fracture resistance$

A prototype Reference Point Indentation instrument developed in the Hansma lab measures bone fracture resistance

Professor Joe Incandela, spokesperson for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at LHC, in front of the CMS detector during construction.

Professor Elisabeth Gwinn working with graduate students.

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Post Doc Matthew Citron Receives 2020 Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award

Matthew awarded for project “A new detector for millicharged particles at the LHC”

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Upcoming Event

2020 Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium

The annual Undergraduate Physics Research Symposium will be held online through Zoom on September 4, 2020. We encourage all undergraduate physics students to pursue research during their time at UCSB by providing them with an outlet for their intellectual creativity. It is important that students are capable of not only delving deep into the specific realm of physics, but also telling their story to their fellow physics colleagues of another field.

September 4, 2020

Physics Research Symposium