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Masanori Nunami, Professor
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The Complexity Science Theory Lab studies the science of complexity hidden in nature from a variety of perspectives, with plasma as its main subject. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, reached at extremely high temperatures, in which atomic nuclei and electrons fly about at high speed and behave in complex ways unlike ordinary matter. To study complexity, which is hard to elucidate by experiment or theory alone, the lab uses computer simulation, the third approach after experiment and theory. The lab is located at the National Institute for Fusion Science in Toki, Gifu Prefecture, and also has office space on the Higashiyama Campus.
Kunimasa Miyazaki, Professor
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The Nonequilibrium Physics Lab (R Lab) studies, theoretically and numerically, nonequilibrium phenomena in "flowing matter" such as glasses, the jamming transition, and soft matter, as well as in active matter, which consists of self-propelled particles. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics taught at the undergraduate level deal with thermal equilibrium, but most natural phenomena around us occur in nonequilibrium states far from equilibrium. No physical theory yet unifies the understanding of nonequilibrium phenomena, and the lab's major goal is to find the universal laws hidden behind seemingly complex phenomena. The lab uses tools of theoretical physics, including field theory, stochastic process theory, and simulation.
Hiroshi Kontani, Professor
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The Condensed Matter Theory Lab studies phenomena exhibited by electrons in metals, such as superconductivity, using theory based on quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. Matter is made of countless electrons and atoms, and their quantum mechanical properties and infinite degrees of freedom give rise to unexpected physical phenomena (emergent phenomena). The lab focuses on topics such as superconductivity, quantum liquid crystals, kagome-lattice metals, Dirac electrons, field theory, and transport phenomena. Lab visits are welcome at any time.
Hiroshi Kohno, Professor
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The Quantum Transport Theory Group (St Lab) theoretically studies the phenomena in which electricity flows through materials (transport phenomena). The lab works on spintronics, which aims to create new electronics by using both the spin and the charge of electrons. The lab also studies topological quantum phenomena, in which materials are classified by the topology of quantum states in solids. Using methods from quantum statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, the lab investigates these phenomena with microscopic theory.
TAMA Florence, Professor
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The Computational Biophysics Lab (B Lab) studies how biomolecules such as proteins function, using computational methods together with physics and chemistry. Its goal is to reveal the structures and motions of biomolecular complexes, in which proteins and nucleic acids assemble together, and to understand how they work. The lab combines experimental data from methods such as X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy with computer simulations. The lab also studies how thermal energy flows through proteins and how energy is transferred in photosynthesis.
Toshiyuki Nakano, Associate Professor
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The Fundamental Particle Physics Lab (F Lab) studies elementary particles and the universe using nuclear emulsion, a photographic film on which elementary particles can be observed. The lab works on neutrino research, searches for unknown particles that are candidates for dark matter, and observations of cosmic gamma rays with a balloon-borne telescope. The lab independently develops both the photographic emulsion that serves as the material for nuclear emulsion and the microscopes that automatically read the recorded tracks. It is also advancing research that applies this technology to other fields, such as neutron measurement.
Toru Iijima, Professor
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The High Energy Particle Physics Lab (N Lab) explores the ultimate nature of matter and the laws of nature through experiments using state-of-the-art particle accelerators. The lab works on the B-factory experiment at KEK, the LHC ATLAS experiment at CERN, and the muon g-2/EDM precision measurement experiment at J-PARC. Aiming to open up a new physics world beyond the Standard Model, the lab states that discovering new phenomena would let it approach open questions such as the identity of dark matter and the origin of the masses and generation structure of elementary particles. The detectors for the Belle and ATLAS experiments were also designed and built by the researchers themselves.
Hirohiko Shimizu, Professor
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The Elementary Particle Properties Lab (Φ Lab) conducts experimental research in particle physics through precision measurement. Particle physics often deals with laws at spatial scales smaller than atoms, and the phenomena involved are high-energy phenomena far beyond the energies we experience in daily life. The lab therefore uses precision measurement to capture the tiny effects that high-energy phenomena produce in low-energy processes. The lab currently works mainly on research using low-energy neutrons, which have no electric charge.
Kunihiro Morishima, Associate Professor
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The Cosmic Ray Imaging Lab researches and develops "cosmic ray imaging," which uses muons, elementary particles contained in cosmic rays, to see inside huge structures without destroying them. Muons decrease in number as they pass through an object, so by measuring the arrival directions of the muons that make it through, the lab can visualize differences in internal density, much like X-ray imaging. For detectors, the lab uses nuclear emulsion unique to Nagoya University, and develops technologies ranging from detector hardware development to analysis. Regardless of target or field, the lab takes on new research using cosmic ray imaging, including archaeological sites such as pyramids, nuclear reactors and blast furnaces, volcanoes, and social infrastructure.
Yoichi Tamura, Professor
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The Astrophysics Lab centers on the interstellar medium, the origin of all celestial objects, and works to understand the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies, and other objects. Using millimeter and submillimeter radio observations, the lab aims to understand how stars and galaxies have formed and evolved over the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe. The lab has two research groups, one on galaxy formation in the early universe and one on star formation and molecular clouds in the Milky Way, and it approaches the physics of celestial object formation in diverse ways. The lab carries out a full chain of experimental and observational research that begins with technology development, and its website describes it as a distinctive lab that is unusual even by national standards.
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