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Strongly Correlated Materials Engineering Lab
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A lab that creates new functional materials from many elements and electronic order.
AboutAbout the lab
New functional materials from electronic order.
The lab studies how to create materials with new functions from transition metal compounds.
In transition metals such as manganese, iron, and copper, electrons interact strongly with one another, forming various kinds of order known as "electronic phases."
Using its own synthesis methods, the lab investigates superconductivity in high-entropy compounds and electronic order arising from spin-orbit coupling.
Students from a wide range of fields, not only physics but also chemistry and materials science, are welcome.
Key terms
- High-entropy compound
- A compound made by mixing five or more elements in roughly equal amounts, stabilizing elements that normally do not mix into a single material.
- Spin-orbit coupling
- An effect in which an electron's "spin" (comparable to rotation) and its "orbital" motion around the atom become coupled. It is stronger in heavy elements.
- Multipolar order
- An arrangement of electrons, different from that of ordinary magnets, formed by the intricate entanglement of the charge and spin degrees of freedom of electrons.
- Dirac electron
- An electron whose energy varies in proportion to its momentum, behaving as if it were massless. Electrons in graphene are a typical example.
NewsLab news
In a joint study with the University of Tokyo and others, the lab developed a new antiferromagnet with a distorted triangular lattice
A new method for making superconductors with high transition temperatures and strong resistance to magnetic fields using high-entropy compounds
In a joint study with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and others, the lab used muons to examine the magnetism of ruthenium oxide
ResearchResearch themes
The lab seeks the principles for creating new functional materials in controlling the "electronic phases" formed by the d electrons of transition metals. Using high-entropy compounds, spin-orbit coupling, and Dirac electrons in oxides as clues, it is developing new materials.
*Illustrative imageSuperconductivity in high-entropy compounds
The lab succeeded in synthesizing new superconductors from high-entropy compounds, which are stabilized by mixing five or more elements. It has also found that mixing many elements raises both the superconducting transition temperature and the resistance to magnetic fields.
*Illustrative imageSpin-orbit coupling and multipolar order
In heavy transition metals, spin-orbit coupling gives rise to a new kind of electronic order called "multipolar order." Using single crystals such as Ba2MgReO6, the lab deepens understanding of this order and is developing materials with new multipolar orders and functions.
*Illustrative imageDirac electrons and high conductivity in oxides
Some oxides conduct electricity as well as copper does, and the lab found that Dirac electrons may be involved. It aims to clarify the origin of this behavior and to lead to materials that combine the thermal and chemical stability of oxides with excellent electronic functions.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorDaigoro Hirai
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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: “Vapor Crystal Growth System Furnace” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Superconductivity in high-entropy compounds: “Levitation of a magnet on top of a superconductor 2” Julien Bobroff (user:Jubobroff), Frederic Bouquet (user:Fbouquet), Jeffrey Quilliam, LPS, Orsay, France / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Spin-orbit coupling and multipolar order: “Kristallstruktur Rhenium(VII)-oxid” Orci / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Dirac electrons and high conductivity in oxides: “Crystal structure of niobium dioxide (NbO₂)” ThomasVJ37 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (磁性材料工学研究グループ): “Magnetite crystal structure (Fleet 1986, 633D) polyhedra model crystallographic standard alignmend” Ra'ike (Wikipedia) / CC0 (cropped)
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