The links at the left will lead you to overviews of the research done in the Physics Department, organized in four broad areas, as well as to the web pages of the faculty working in each area.

The MIT Department of Physics is recognized as a worldwide leader in physics research, providing students with opportunities across a wide range of fields. We strive to be at the …

Our activities range from string theory and cosmology at the highest energies down through unification and beyond-the-standard-model physics, through the standard model, to QCD, …

An undergraduate degree in physics at MIT prepares students very well for graduate studies in physics, as well as for a variety of academic or research-related careers.

The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. We have been ranked the number one physics department since 2002 by US News & …

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics — a Leinweber Institute (CTP-LI) MIT–Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) Haystack Radio Observatory NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence …

Our research program extends the frontiers of human understanding of space, time, matter, and energy in all its forms, from the subatomic to the cosmic and from the elementary to the complex.

Ongoing research at MIT in QIS includes work on new quantum algorithms, efficient simulations of quantum systems, methods to characterize and control existing or near-term quantum …

CTP-LI researchers study possible new physics signatures at dark matter detection experiments, cosmological observatories, accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, high intensity …

The Physics Department participates in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) by providing positions for undergraduates with our faculty and in our research labs.