The department's research areas include the following:

• Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory

• High Energy Astrophysics

• Nuclear Physics and Technology

• Computational Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Design

• Nano- and Low-dimensional Systems and Strongly Coupled Systems

• Superconductivity Study and Application

• Laser Physics, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics

• Quantum Computation and Information

• Atomic and Molecular Structures and Dynamical Processes

• Detection, Identification and Manipulation of Single Atoms and Molecules

State Key Laboratory

•                    State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics

Research Institutes

• Institute of Condensed Matter Physics

• Institute of Atomic, Molecular and Optic Physics

• Institute of High Energy and Nuclear Physics

• Institute of Astronomy Physics

Interdisciplinary Research Centers

• Center for Atomic, Molecular and NanoSciences

• Applied Superconductivity Research Center

• Center for Astrophysics

• Center for High Energy Physics

• Tsinghua-Foxconn Nano Research Center

• Tsinghua-Chinluck Frontier Science Research Center

• Center for Quantum Science and Technology