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Nanomagnetism and Spin Physics (J) Lab
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The lab explores new phenomena in nanoscale magnetism and spin.
AboutAbout the lab
The enchanting world of the nanoscale
The Nanomagnetism and Spin Physics Lab studies the unusual magnetic and spin properties that appear when electrons are confined in very small regions, such as thin films and nanoparticles.
In addition to charge, electrons have spin angular momentum, and the interactions between spins give rise to a rich variety of phenomena known as magnetism.
The lab artificially creates surfaces and interfaces to control the environment of the electrons, and investigates the origins of phenomena that appear at the nanoscale.
This research area is broadly called spintronics, and it is advancing from both the condensed matter physics side and the engineering side.
The lab's website also introduces it under the name "J Lab."
Key terms
- Magnon
- The quantized form of a spin wave, in which a disturbance of atomic spins propagates through a ferromagnet as a wave
- Multiferroics
- Materials in which magnetization and electric polarization coexist in a single material. Magnetization responds to an electric field, and electric polarization responds to a magnetic field
- Kondo effect
- An effect seen in dilute magnetic alloys. Its origin is spin-flip scattering
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the MIGAKU Award at the international conference IcAUMS 2025
A doctoral student received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the IEEE Magnetics Society Nagoya Chapter Young Researchers' Meeting
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on the physics of the interactions and conversions between electron spin and other order parameters, as well as the corresponding fluctuations and elementary excitations. It studies magnetic and spin properties that appear at the nanoscale, where surfaces and interfaces play a major role, and that are qualitatively different from those of bulk materials.
*Illustrative imageMagnon propagation and tunneling
The lab focuses on magnons, the quantized form of spin waves that propagate through ferromagnets. Since tunneling should be observable if an energy barrier is artificially created along the propagation path, the lab works to clarify the physics of propagation and conversion phenomena.
*Illustrative imageMultiferroics and cross-correlation
To clarify the mechanism of the cross-correlation that arises between magnetization and electric polarization, the lab creates the setting for it at material interfaces. It proposes principles for manipulating magnetization with electricity and for switching spin-wave propagation modes.
*Illustrative imageInteraction of spin currents with Kondo states and magnetic order
The lab studies how the spin accumulation produced by passing a current through the junction interface between a ferromagnet and a dissimilar material interacts with atomic spins as a diffusive spin current. It has found the disappearance of the Kondo effect and a transition from an antiferromagnetic state to a ferromagnetic state.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Nanomagnetism and Spin Physics Lab consist of faculty, research assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTomoyasu Taniyama
- Associate ProfessorBernard Gelloz
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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: “Magnetic stripe domains” DMGualtieri / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Magnon propagation and tunneling: “Wiki-YIG” Krizu / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Multiferroics and cross-correlation: “Noticeboard ferrite magnet - multipole magnetization” Antonín Ryska / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Interaction of spin currents with Kondo states and magnetic order: “Ewing's Hysteresis Tester” University of Dundee Museum Services / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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