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Aya Bamba, Associate Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace1 student voices
The Bamba Lab uses observational data from a variety of telescopes, including X-ray astronomy satellites, to uncover the physics hidden in hot, violent astronomical phenomena. In particular, the lab studies high-energy physical processes in supernova remnants and in compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. With future satellite missions in mind, the lab is also developing detectors that widen the observable energy range and offer excellent energy resolution and polarization measurement capability.
Masaki Ando, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace1 student voices
Ando Lab conducts research that pioneers gravitational-wave astronomy. Detecting gravitational waves would give us a new means of observing the universe. To achieve this, the lab develops extreme precision measurement technologies, including quantum-optical techniques for laser interferometers, research on thermal noise, and vibration isolation. The lab also uses these technologies to carry out fundamental physics experiments that test gravity and relativity.
Satoru Nakatsuji, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Nakatsuji-Sakai Lab studies how to create new quantum materials and measure their properties with precision. Magnetism, superconductivity, and spintronics have been reexamined through the concept of topology, and new phenomena are being discovered one after another. Driving this trend is the discovery of quantum materials that turn new concepts into reality. The lab carries out the search for and synthesis of materials, as well as precise measurements, all on its own, with the aim of elucidating the underlying physical laws.
Kensuke Kobayashi, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Kobayashi Lab studies ultra-precise measurement based on the principles of quantum mechanics, known as quantum metrology. At the center of this work is the NV (nitrogen-vacancy) center, a lattice defect that forms in diamond. An NV center acts as an atomic-scale quantum sensor and can measure the magnetic field and temperature it senses with extremely high precision. Using it, the lab works on quantum spin microscopy, which observes the magnetic and thermal behavior of materials like a microscope.
Masamitsu Hayashi, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Hayashi Lab studies how spin, the angular momentum of electrons, behaves inside materials. Spin plays an important role in many phenomena, including magnetism, electrical conduction, optical response, and superconductivity. In addition to electrons and photons, phonons, which are lattice vibrations, and magnons, which are magnetic excitations, also carry spin. The lab experimentally investigates how these particles and waves move inside materials and what physical properties they give rise to.
Ryo Shimano, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
Shimano Lab uses laser light to study quantum phenomena that emerge in the collective behavior of electrons in solids. The lab searches for new elementary excitations and explores quantum phases that are not yet known. Its goal is to control macroscopic quantum states in solids with light, and further to create new quantum phases with light. Targeting superconductors, strongly correlated electron systems, semiconductors, and Dirac electron systems, the lab also develops light sources up to the terahertz range and ultrafast spectroscopy techniques.
Tsuji Naoto, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Tsuji Lab theoretically studies nonequilibrium phenomena and nonequilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems. The systems it studies are collections of interacting electrons in solids and collections of atoms cooled by lasers. It might seem that driving such a system out of equilibrium with an external force would disrupt its order and destroy its interesting properties. However, examples have been found in which order and properties that cannot be realized in equilibrium appear, and the lab aims to understand them.
Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Professor
AI & Machine Learning1 student voices
The Kabashima Lab studies a wide range of problems in information science based on the ideas of statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanics is a field that seeks to explain the collective behavior that emerges when a large number of small elements, such as atoms and molecules, come together. It has become clear that theories developed through phenomena such as water turning into ice and iron becoming a magnet can also be used for compressing files and recovering corrupted data. Focusing on error-correcting codes, compressed sensing, and machine learning, the lab is opening up a new area between theoretical physics and information science.
Hosho Katsura, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Katsura Lab conducts theoretical research spanning condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, and mathematical physics. The lab aims to understand the diverse phases that emerge in strongly correlated quantum many-body systems and to predict novel phenomena. In addition to studying ground states and low-energy excitations, the lab also puts strong emphasis on the nonequilibrium dynamics of open and isolated quantum systems. The lab is also investigating the algebraic structures underlying solvable models in classical and quantum statistical mechanics.
Synge Todo, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
Todo Lab studies the behavior of quantum many-body systems using computer simulations. Understanding the states of matter requires solving the many-body Schrödinger equation, but it is difficult to solve exactly even on modern supercomputers. A key challenge in computational physics is therefore to reformulate the original equation into a form that is easier to simulate, without losing the symmetries and quantum correlations it contains. The lab covers subjects ranging from quantum spin systems and real materials to quantum computers, and also develops and releases open-source software for large-scale computation.
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