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Kindo Lab
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A high-field physics lab that builds some of the world's strongest pulsed magnets and uses intense magnetic fields to explore the magnetism of materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Drawing out the magnetism of matter with strong magnetic fields
The Kindo Lab uses pulsed high magnetic fields to develop non-destructive pulsed magnets that rank among the strongest in the world.
All materials have magnetic properties (magnetism), although the strength varies from one material to another.
Even a material with weak magnetism reveals this property when placed in a strong magnetic field. A high magnetic field acts like a microscope for examining a material's magnetism in detail.
In the strong magnetic fields it generates, the lab measures how materials become magnetized and how their structures change, searching for unknown physical phenomena.
Key terms
- Pulsed magnet
- An electromagnet that discharges stored electrical energy into a coil in an instant, producing an extremely strong magnetic field for a very short time
- Magnetization plateau
- A state in which a material's magnetization (its strength as a magnet) stays constant even as the magnetic field is increased
- Strongly correlated electron system
- A material in which electrons strongly influence one another and cannot be treated independently. Phenomena such as heavy fermions and high-temperature superconductivity emerge in these materials
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Hajime Ishikawa received the FY2024 ISSP Academic Encouragement Award
A paper on a copper sulfate compound with a quantum star lattice was published in Physical Review B
A paper on the hyper-octagon lattice in a MOF was published in Physical Review Letters
Project Assistant Professor Shusaku Imajo received the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab uses the pulsed high-field method to develop non-destructive pulsed magnets that can produce some of the strongest magnetic fields in the world. In these fields, it measures the fundamental properties of materials, searching for unknown physical phenomena and working to elucidate their mechanisms.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of Non-Destructive Pulsed Magnets
Generating a strong magnetic field produces heat and forces that can destroy the coil. The lab designs and builds its own non-destructive pulsed magnets that prevent this damage and can reach even stronger fields. It also conducts research under combined extreme conditions, such as high pressure and very low temperatures.
*Illustrative imageMagnetization Measurements of Low-Dimensional Magnets
In magnets where the connections between spins are confined to low dimensions, strong quantum fluctuations give rise to states that are hard to understand intuitively. The lab precisely measures the magnetization process at very low temperatures, investigating ground states and the magnetization plateaus that appear in high magnetic fields.
*Illustrative imageHigh-Field Properties of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
The lab studies strongly correlated electron systems, such as heavy-fermion systems, high-temperature superconductors, and transition metal compounds that undergo metal-insulator transitions. It controls these systems with high magnetic fields, aiming to elucidate the phenomena they exhibit.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kindo Lab consist of faculty, technical specialist staff, project specialist staff, academic specialist staff, ISSP research fellows, and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKoichi Kindo
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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: “Bitter electromagnet disk” PeterFrankfurt / CC0 (cropped)
- Development of Non-Destructive Pulsed Magnets: “Jet Propulsion Laboratory 100 Kilogauss Magnet kmagnet-600” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Magnetization Measurements of Low-Dimensional Magnets: “Azurite - New Nevada Lode, La Sal, Utah, USA” Ivar Leidus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- High-Field Properties of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: “YBCO-unit-cell-3D-balls” Ben Mills / Public domain (cropped)
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