Course Overview
The MSc by Research in Theoretical Physics allows you to undertake a year long individual programme of personally and professionally enriching research.
Your theoretical physics research project will be shaped by participation in activities such as seminars, workshops, laboratory activity and field work, as well as your involvement in one of our established research groups.
While this research programme usually finishes after a year, it can be used to progress to the second year of a PhD degree in the appropriate circumstances.
Over 80% of our research outputs from experimental and theoretical groups were judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2014-2021). We have three main research groups.
Applied Physics and Materials Group
- Next generation solar cells
- Materials and devices for photodetection
- Physics of next-generation semiconductors
- Bioelectronics
- Material physics
- Biophysics
- Novel sensors for medicine
Atomic, Molecular and Quantum Physics Group
- Antihydrogen, positronium and positrons
- Quantum control
- Cold atoms and quantum optics
- Nano-scale physics and the life sciences
- Analytical laser spectroscopy unit
- Ultrafast dynamics, imaging and microscopy
- Quantum computation and simulation
Particle Physics And Cosmology Theory Group
- Integrability and AdS/CFT
- Higher spin holography
- Dense quark matter at strong coupling and gauge/string duality
- Quantum fields in curved spacetime
- Theoretical cosmology
- Amplitudes in gauge and supergravity theories
- Non-abelian T-duality and supergravity solutions
- Holography and physics beyond the standard model
- Large-N gauge theories, supersymmetry and duality
- Lattice studies of strongly interacting systems
- Hadron Spectroscopy