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One of the 3 km-long Advanced Virgo tunnels nearby Pisa, where laser light travels. Credits: EGO/Virgo

A transverse view of the ATLAS detector in open configuration, with the eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter

Examples of Feynman diagrams for Higgs boson production and decay. Nature 607, 52 (2022)

Kinetic simulation of magnetized plasma turbulence

Optomechanical set-up with laser beams exciting, probing, and controlling microcavities

Scheme of laser-cooled trapped ions subject to an optical lattice potential. Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 013031 (2021)

Quantum materials: superimposed graphene sheets forming a Moiré pattern. Courtesy: L. Cavicchi

M74 spiral galaxy imaged by Hubble (left), JWST (right), and with combined acquisitions (center). Credits: Esa/Nasa

Basic principles like unitarity and crossing symmetry, combined with the formalism of conformal field theories, can be used to precisely determine interesting observables in critical phenomena, such as the Ising model in 3D

CT, PET, and co-registered PET/CT imaging of glucose uptake in rat brain. EJNMMI Phys 9, 10 (2022)

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This is the website of the Department of Physics ‘Enrico Fermi’ of the University of Pisa, an internationally recognized center for scientific research and advanced education in Physics and in its interdisciplinary applications. Broad and intense teaching activities are performed for about 1000 undergraduate students, and 60 PhD students and postgraduate specializing students.

At the top places of the national ANVUR ranking 2023-2027, the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa got the highest score for its research (100/100) as well as for its development program (30/30).

Events

Event of 3 December 2025

Presentation of the book “Four Hypotheses on the Origin of Language” by Lorenzo Pinna

The Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa (Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa) will host, on Wednesday,…

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News

Published on 25 November 2025

Elections for student representation in the Department Council

On 25 and 26 November 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on 27 November 2025, from 9:00 a.m.…

Published on 13 November 2025

25 Awards for Female Students in Physics or Universe Sciences

The National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), as part of the “More Women in Physics” project aimed at promoting and…

Published on 5 November 2025

The Department of Physics at Lucca Comics

The Department of Physics took part in Lucca Comics with its researchers to present the escape room HEPscape! on particle…

Published on 28 October 2025

Marilù Chiofalo: the poetry of mathematics and the humanity of quantum physics

In an interview published in Communications Physics (Nature), Marilù Chiofalo, Professor of the Department of Physics of the University of…

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Last updated on: 16/06/2023

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