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Hideki Hirori, Professor
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The Light-Driven Solid State Physics Lab (Hirori Lab), newly established in 2025, studies the interaction between light and matter. The lab shines light on materials in which electrons, the lattice, and spins interact, driving them out of equilibrium, and investigates the fundamental interactions between light and matter. The lab develops its own laser spectroscopy equipment, such as a terahertz light source with the highest intensity in the world, and observes and controls motion that occurs on timescales from femtoseconds to attoseconds. The lab is located in the Institute for Chemical Research (Uji Campus), and its graduate students belong to the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Graduate School of Science.
Kiyonobu Nagaya, Assistant Professor
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The Physics of Disordered Systems Lab studies liquids and clusters (aggregates of a few to tens of thousands of atoms) in which electrons and atoms are strongly correlated. A characteristic of disordered systems is the freedom in how atoms are arranged, which allows many kinds of aggregation, from atoms and molecules to clusters and further to condensed matter. The lab uses synchrotron radiation and X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) to investigate their microscopic and macroscopic properties.
Akira Kakugo, Professor
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The Active Matter Lab (Spatiotemporal Order and Biological Physics) studies "active matter," materials that convert energy stored in chemicals or light into motion and move spontaneously. Using biomolecular motors (such as microtubules and kinesin), DNA, microorganisms, and colloids as materials, the lab investigates swarming, self-assembly, and pattern formation. By pursuing these principles, the lab aims to create new materials and approach the mysteries of life. It is an experimental lab that uses the methods of physics to elucidate biological phenomena and non-equilibrium and nonlinear phenomena.
Yuki Uematsu, Associate Professor
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The Soft Matter Physics Division (Uematsu Lab) aims to understand chemical and biological phenomena as physics through liquids and soft matter. The lab conducts both measurement experiments using light, electric fields, and flow, and theory based on thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and fluid dynamics. Its main themes are the physics of bubbles and droplets, ion-specific effects on biomolecules, and unsolved problems in chemical physics and biophysics.
Masaaki Sugiyama, Professor
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The Sugiyama Lab uses neutrons to study the structure and dynamics of proteins in solution. Founded in 2011, it has become one of the leading labs in the world in small-angle neutron scattering. Starting from small-angle neutron scattering, it has expanded its research to focus on clock proteins. It is a cooperating chair of Physics I (Biomolecular Structure) in the Graduate School of Science, and is located at the Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science (Kumatori).
Youichi Yanase, Professor
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The Condensed Matter Theory Lab studies, from the standpoint of quantum many-body theory, the diverse physical phenomena that appear when many microscopic constituents such as electrons and atoms interact. Superconductivity, superfluidity, Bose-Einstein condensation, and magnetism are typical examples. The lab aims to find new universal laws behind such many-body phenomena and to build theories that describe them. It takes on this work with a wide range of methods, from analytical approaches such as field theory to numerical computer simulations.
Masatoshi Sato, Professor
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The Condensed Matter Physics Lab (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics) studies the nontrivial properties that arise when many particles, such as electrons in solids and ultracold atoms, interact with one another through correlations. At low temperatures, where quantum mechanical effects become strong, particle statistics and wave function phases become intertwined, giving rise to intriguing physical properties. By combining quantum field theory, large-scale numerical computation, and quantum-information-based methods, the lab aims to understand the rich properties of quantum many-body systems.
Shinichi Sasa, Professor
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The Statistical Physics and Dynamics Lab aims to understand the laws governing the collective behavior and dynamics of systems made up of many elements. Covering a wide range of subjects, from quantum and classical many-body systems to fluids, polymers and gels, granular matter and glasses, living systems, and quantum computers, the lab theoretically studies phase transitions, transport phenomena, turbulence, and more. Using mathematical models and numerical simulations, the lab also works on discovering new phenomena and elucidating their essential mechanisms. The lab consists of five groups: nonlinear dynamics, fluid physics, phase transition dynamics, Saito, and Kanazawa.
Hisao Hayakawa, Professor
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The Statistical Dynamics Lab (Hayakawa Lab) studies nonequilibrium statistical physics, a field whose framework is not yet complete. Nonequilibrium ideas are used in a wide range of fields, from nuclear physics to astrophysics, earth science, biophysics, chemistry, engineering, and economics. The lab applies nonequilibrium physics methods to granular matter, glasses, quantum dots, active matter, and more, seeking to clarify universal principles common to nonequilibrium systems.
Tomoyuki Morimae, Professor
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Fundamental Theory of Condensed Matter: Quantum Information (the Morimae Lab) studies the theory of quantum information, which uses strange properties of quantum theory, such as superposition and the uncertainty principle, to realize forms of information processing never possible before. Its main themes are quantum computational complexity theory, which investigates the boundaries and limits between quantum and classical computation, and new quantum cryptography that makes use of quantum properties.
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