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Taro Ueda, Professor
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The Ueda Lab studies the mechanisms by which cells move, at both the cellular and molecular levels. The keys are the actin filament, a major component of the cytoskeleton, and the cellular slime mold, a model system for eukaryotic cell motility. The lab investigates why actin filaments perform different functions in different locations, and how a cell divides in two. It is also working on using protein molecular motors as tiny transport tools.
Takuro Katsufuji, Professor
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The Katsufuji Lab creates new materials and investigates the new behavior that electrons show in them. Electrons in a crystal feel forces from atomic nuclei and exert forces on one another, and together they give rise to a wide variety of properties as a collective. Becoming a metal that conducts electricity, sticking to a magnet, and having zero electrical resistance are all examples. The lab focuses on “strongly correlated materials,” mainly transition metal oxides, and studies them using methods such as optical techniques.
Masatoshi Takano, Professor
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The Takano Lab studies atomic nuclei from the theoretical side. A nucleus is a system of protons and neutrons bound by the nuclear force, but understanding its structure faces a major obstacle: the many-body problem. So the lab considers nuclear matter, a hypothetical infinitely large nucleus, and determines its equation of state, mainly using the variational method. The resulting equation of state is also applied to research on high-energy astrophysical phenomena such as neutron stars and supernova explosions.
Mitsunori Takano, Professor
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The Takano Lab is a computational biophysics lab that uncovers the mechanisms of biological function from the atomic and molecular level. Proteins spontaneously form the three-dimensional structures specified by their blueprints, and by assembling and disassembling they work as “molecular machines” and “molecular devices.” The structural stability of molecular machines is only very slight, and some of them collapse because of thermal fluctuations. The lab asks how such fragile machines can function at all. Using computational physics and cutting-edge computing technology, the lab approaches their operating mechanisms.
Akari Takayama, Professor
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The Takayama Lab studies physical phenomena that occur at the "surface" of materials. A crystal is a state in which atoms are arranged periodically in three dimensions, but at its edge, the surface, this periodicity breaks down and two-dimensional properties different from those of the crystal appear. Low-dimensional worlds such as two-dimensional surfaces and interfaces, one-dimensional edges, and zero-dimensional dots still hold many things that are not yet understood. Under the motto "create, observe, measure, and understand," the lab investigates these systems using scanning tunneling microscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, and electron and positron diffraction.
Kenji Yasuda, Professor
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The Yasuda Lab seeks to understand how life works in the language of physics. Living things are systems organized in a hierarchy from molecules to cells to individuals, and they show properties that do not arise by simply gathering molecules together. In physics, observing regular behavior requires something on the order of Avogadro's number of elements, yet life maintains high regularity and reproducibility with only a handful of elements. The lab investigates where this "collective effect" comes from, using a constructive approach that builds systems up from their elements.
Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Professor
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The Yamazaki Lab studies pattern-formation phenomena and behavioral patterns seen in everyday life. The branching of cherry trees, snowflakes, cracks in glass, bacterial colonies, flocks of birds and schools of fish: these forms of nature look complex and diverse at first glance. The lab views them as "patterns" regardless of the fine differences among their components, and tries to bring out the formation mechanisms shared across individual phenomena. From the viewpoints of statistical physics, nonlinear science, and complex systems science, it aims at simple modeling and the extraction of mathematical structures.
Kazuya Yuasa, Professor
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The Yuasa Lab theoretically studies quantum physics and quantum information, with "quantum entanglement" as its keyword. In the microscopic world described by quantum mechanics, many strange phenomena occur. Alongside considering such fundamental problems in quantum theory, the lab investigates quantum-mechanical effects that appear from the microscopic to the mesoscopic scale. The lab also works on the physics of quantum information and quantum technology, which actively exploit quantum correlations and entanglement.
Takao Aoki, Professor
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The Aoki Lab combines quantum optics as a branch of physics with the development of nanophotonic devices as applied physics. At its core is research on cavity QED, which consists of light confined in an optical cavity and atoms interacting with it. The lab has independently developed cavities that use optical fibers thinner than the wavelength of light (nanofibers), and couples them to atoms that have been cooled and trapped with lasers. By pioneering techniques to generate, measure, and manipulate quantum states to the extreme, the lab aims at applications in quantum information and quantum metrology.
Jun Kataoka, Professor
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The Kataoka Lab develops its own highly sensitive cameras that detect X-rays and gamma rays, and applies them to both astronomical observation and medicine. Rare metals such as gold and platinum are thought to be produced in explosive events such as neutron star mergers, which are believed to emit characteristic line X-rays and gamma rays. The lab aims to detect this light from space by mounting the cameras it has developed on ultra-small satellites weighing several tens of kilograms. The lab also brings the same technology into medicine, working on methods to observe from outside the body how drugs move inside it.
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