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 Optical Physics

• Institute of Particle Physics, Nuclear Phyics and Astrophysics

Interdisciplinary Research Centers

• Center for Atomic, Molecular and NanoSciences

• Tsinghua-Foxconn Nano Research Center

• Center for Quantum Science and Technology

• Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information

• Tsinghua University-Luzhou Laojiao Intelligent Detection Joint Research Center