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Emergent Quantum Materials Science Lab
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A lab that searches for new materials that show unknown quantum phenomena.
AboutAbout the lab
Betting on the unknown to find new materials
The Emergent Quantum Materials Science Lab searches for new materials full of unknown quantum phenomena and studies their properties.
Because it is difficult to make a material with a desired function exactly as designed, the lab conducts inductive materials exploration that draws on experience and intuition.
The lab does broad work on material synthesis under environments such as ultrahigh pressure and ultrahigh vacuum, and on measurements of properties such as magnetism, electrical conductivity, and thermal transport. Recently it has also made use of first-principles calculations and Bayesian optimization.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Ishiwata Lab."
Key terms
- Inductive materials exploration
- A way of searching in which, instead of designing a material from a desired function, one decides which materials to try based on experience and intuition
- First-principles calculation
- A method that calculates the properties of materials from the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, without relying on experimental data
- Bayesian optimization
- A method that probabilistically chooses the next conditions to try based on past results, in order to find good conditions with few trials
NewsLab news
Published a paper on charge disproportionation in the helimagnetic phase of a cubic perovskite
A doctoral student won a poster award at the international conference SCES2026
A master's student won a poster award at the 8th Solid State Chemistry Forum workshop
Associate Professor Hidefumi Takahashi won the Osaka University Prize, Young Researcher category
A paper by Associate Professor Hidefumi Takahashi and colleagues was published in PRX Energy
ResearchResearch themes
The lab searches for new materials that contain unknown quantum phenomena. It does broad work on material synthesis and property measurements, and also makes use of first-principles calculations and Bayesian optimization.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Emergent Quantum Materials Science Lab consist of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorS Ishiwata
- Associate ProfessorHidefumi Takahashi
- Assistant ProfessorAlex Hiroshi Mayo
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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: “Apparatus for measuring vapor pressures - DPLA - 96907cd46db76b056b34c2cda439c64d” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Exploring New Materials through Synthesis and Property Measurements: “DiamondAnvilCell 003” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
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