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Quantum Beam Materials Analysis Lab
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The lab uses quantum beams to magnify the arrangement of atoms by a factor of 100 million so that it can be observed directly.
AboutAbout the lab
Magnifying 100-million-fold to see through to how materials are made.
The Quantum Beam Materials Analysis Lab uses quantum beams to investigate the types of atoms that make up materials and how they are arranged.
Seeing how atoms are arranged requires magnifying space by a factor of 100 million, and quantum beams can do this almost exactly regardless of the type of atom.
The lab covers problems from the atomic scale in crystals and glasses to the macroscopic scale, such as residual strain in large components.
By combining this with techniques for creating extreme environments such as high temperature, ultrahigh pressure, and ultrahigh strain, the lab creates new materials.
Key terms
- Quantum beam
- A stream of particles or waves, such as X-rays or neutrons, used to investigate the inside of materials
- Amorphous material
- A material, such as glass or a liquid, in which the arrangement of atoms is disordered
- Residual strain
- Deformation that remains inside a component as a result of its processing or thermal history
NewsLab news
Paper by Assistant Professor Yuhei Umeda and colleagues published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Paper by Professor Takuo Okuchi and colleagues published in Proceedings of the 4th J-PARC Symposium 2024
Paper by Associate Professor Hiroshi Arima and colleagues published in Scientific Reports
Paper by Associate Professor Hiroshi Arima and colleagues published in Journal of Molecular Liquids
Professor Takuo Okuchi elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies multiscale engineering that uses quantum beam magnification, ranging from atomic-scale problems in crystals and glasses to macroscopic problems such as residual strain in large components. By combining techniques for creating extreme environments such as high temperature, ultrahigh pressure, and ultrahigh strain with advanced quantum beam techniques, the lab captures dramatic changes in atomic arrangements.
*Illustrative imageMaterials of the Universe and the Solar System
The lab recreates impacts of asteroids and comets in a laboratory on Earth and examines in situ the structural changes that minerals, ceramics, and metals undergo.
*Illustrative imageAmorphous Materials
By combining diffraction and scattering data obtained from state-of-the-art quantum beam experiments with theoretical calculations and simulations, the lab builds highly reliable three-dimensional atomic arrangements of amorphous materials.
*Illustrative imageTechniques for Creating Extreme Environments
The lab develops sample environment equipment that produces high temperature, high pressure, and controlled humidity, and has succeeded in observing reactions in supercritical water and hydrogen diffusion.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Quantum Beam Materials Analysis Lab are faculty and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakuo Okuchi
- Associate ProfessorHiroshi Arima
- Assistant ProfessorYuhei Umeda
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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: “High School Student Conducting a X-Ray Diffraction Test” 高柏瑋
（Po-Wei Kao, or Powei Kao） / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Materials of the Universe and the Solar System: “Admire Meteorite End-Cut” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Amorphous Materials: “Bulk Metallic Glass Gears (BMGG) Testing at Swamp Works (KSC-20210617-PH-KLS01 0044)” NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA/Kim Shiflett / Public domain (cropped)
- Techniques for Creating Extreme Environments: “Anvil72-FR” Pbroks13 / Public domain (cropped)
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