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Kitagawa Lab
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An experimental condensed matter physics lab searching for electronic states no one has ever seen, under ultrahigh pressures of more than tens of thousands of atmospheres.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward uncharted quantum phases under ultrahigh pressure
The Kitagawa Lab experimentally searches for new electronic states of solids that emerge under ultrahigh pressure.
The magnetic states of solids have barely been studied above several tens of thousands of atmospheres, because until now there has been no way to measure them.
The lab combines high-pressure generation devices it develops in-house with measurement techniques based on light and magnetic resonance.
A new lab that started in 2024, it is building its equipment from scratch as it carries out its research.
Key terms
- Magnetic resonance
- A phenomenon in which the spins of atomic nuclei or electrons in a magnetic field absorb electromagnetic waves of a specific frequency. It is used to probe what is happening inside materials.
- Strongly correlated electron systems
- Materials in which electrons interact so strongly that they cannot be treated one by one as independent particles. Superconductivity and unusual magnetism appear in them.
- Meissner effect
- A phenomenon in which a superconductor expels magnetic fields from its interior. It is the decisive evidence that a material is superconducting.
NewsLab news
A master's student won a poster award at the High Pressure Conference
In a collaboration with the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the lab discovered bulk high-temperature superconductivity in La2PrNi2O7 under high pressure (Nature)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the world of ultrahigh pressure, beyond several tens of thousands of atmospheres, where the magnetic states of solids have hardly been investigated. By combining its own high-pressure generation devices with optical and magnetic resonance measurement techniques, it explores new electronic states.
*Illustrative imageNew Electronic Phases under Ultrahigh Pressure
By combining in-house high-pressure generation devices with optical and magnetic resonance measurement techniques, the lab searches under ultrahigh pressure for new electronic states that no one has ever seen.
*Illustrative imageA New High-Pressure Device Capable of Measuring Magnetism
The lab investigates quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated electron systems under ultrahigh pressure. It is also developing a high-pressure generation device that uses a new light-probe technique to observe conventional physical quantities and magnetic physical quantities at the same time.
*Illustrative imageHigh-Temperature Superconductivity in Nickel Oxides
In an international collaboration with the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the lab showed that La2PrNi2O7 becomes superconducting across nearly the entire sample (bulk superconductivity) at pressures above 150,000 atmospheres. Using the multi-anvil technique of the Institute for Solid State Physics, it measured AC magnetic susceptibility under ultrahigh pressure and confirmed the Meissner effect.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kitagawa Lab consist of faculty members, project researchers, project specialist staff, secretaries, technical assistants, doctoral and master's students, and research trainees.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorKentaro KitagawaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorYusei ShimizuPublications ↗
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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: “First diamond anvil cell” Gasper J. Piermarini / Public domain (cropped)
- New Electronic Phases under Ultrahigh Pressure: “DiamondAnvilCell 003” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- A New High-Pressure Device Capable of Measuring Magnetism: “Model of nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond” Materialscientist / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- High-Temperature Superconductivity in Nickel Oxides: “Levitating HTS BSCCO piece (Meissner effect)” Winiar / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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