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Kawabata Lab
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The lab, which works on condensed matter theory, builds new fundamental theory for the quantum world that stays connected to its surroundings and keeps changing.
AboutAbout the lab
Building new foundations for condensed matter theory
The Kawabata Lab conducts research aimed at establishing new foundations for condensed matter theory.
Until now, condensed matter physics has been built mainly around isolated equilibrium systems, which are cut off from their surroundings and in a state of balance.
The lab focuses on nonequilibrium open systems, which continually exchange energy and particles with the outside, and theoretically explores the diverse phenomena that arise in them.
Based on general concepts such as symmetry and topology, the lab builds fundamental theories that can explain and predict a wide range of experiments.
Key terms
- Nonequilibrium open system
- A system that exchanges energy and particles with its external environment and is not in a state of equilibrium
- Topological phase
- A state of matter distinguished by topology, a "shape" property that does not change under small deformations
- Quantum chaos
- The field that studies how systems that exhibit chaos (hard-to-predict behavior) in classical mechanics behave in quantum mechanics
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Seishiro Ono receives the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
Associate Professor Kohei Kawabata receives the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Associate Professor Kohei Kawabata receives the 3rd AAPPS-JPS Award (2025)
Associate Professor Kohei Kawabata receives the Reviewer Excellence Award from the American Physical Society
Associate Professor Kohei Kawabata receives the 5th Japan Research Front Award
ResearchResearch themes
The lab theoretically studies condensed matter phenomena that arise in nonequilibrium open systems, going beyond the conventional framework centered on isolated equilibrium systems. Starting with phenomena unique to nonequilibrium open systems, it aims to establish new foundations for condensed matter theory.
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- Associate ProfessorKohei KawabataPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorSeishiro OnoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Riemann surface sqrt” Jan Homann / Public domain (cropped)
- Condensed Matter Properties Unique to Nonequilibrium Open Systems: “Möbius strip 3D red” BojanV03 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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