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Wataru Higemoto, Project Professor
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Higemoto Lab uses the elementary particle muon to study a variety of materials, including superconductors, magnetic materials, and semiconductors. The main method is muon spin relaxation (μSR), which uses a large accelerator and is a large-scale experiment for condensed matter physics. The main body of the lab is not on the Ookayama Campus but in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture, where the accelerator facility is located. The lab was established as a collaborative program with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and master's students belong to it.
Jiang Pu, Associate Professor
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The Pu Lab studies the properties of two-dimensional materials and their stacked structures, and applies them to devices. It investigates the behavior of electrons and light that is unique to two-dimensional materials, which are as thin as a material can be. Using its own fabrication and measurement techniques, the lab explores the distinctive properties of superlattice structures that combine various materials. It aims to create new devices that have never existed before by taking advantage of the characteristics of the materials.
Xiuzhen Yu, Project Professor
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The Yu Lab is the Electronic States Microscopy Research Team at RIKEN, led by Project Professor Yu of the School of Science at Institute of Science Tokyo. Using electron microscopes capable of atomic-level resolution, the lab observes in real space the structure and dynamics of magnetic vortices such as skyrmions. Targeting high-temperature superconductors, polar ferromagnets, thin-film interfaces, and more, it also examines electronic states, elemental distributions, and structural changes. Through this research, the lab aims to elucidate emergent phenomena that occur in a variety of materials.
Takashi Miyake, Professor
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Miyake Lab studies how to understand and predict the properties of materials (physical properties) from the theory of electrons. It solves equations based on quantum mechanics with computational simulations and expresses material properties numerically. Based on those results, the lab clarifies the mechanisms behind material properties and designs materials. For this purpose, it also develops computational science methods and data-driven methods.
Aiko Takamine, Professor
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Takamine Lab conducts experiments that measure, with very high precision, unstable nuclei produced artificially by accelerators. Unstable nuclei are a key to understanding how elements were formed in the universe, and their properties change greatly with even a slight difference in the number of protons or neutrons. The lab first decelerates and cools unstable nuclei to extremely low energy, then performs high-precision mass measurements and laser spectroscopy. Anyone with even a slight interest in the research is welcome to drop by the lab.
Shunsaku Horiuchi, Associate Professor
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The Horiuchi Lab studies, from a theoretical standpoint, the field where high-energy astrophysics and particle physics overlap. The lab considers the physics of supernova explosions and of dark matter as particles, and explores how they can be probed with light, cosmic rays, and neutrinos arriving from space. As multi-messenger astronomy, which combines multiple signals to study the universe, advances rapidly, the lab provides theoretical predictions for observations and experiments. Prof. Horiuchi also holds appointments at Virginia Tech in the United States and at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo.
Kazuyuki Sekizawa, Associate Professor
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The Sekizawa Lab studies quantum many-body systems, which are assemblies of many particles that obey quantum mechanics. Its subjects include not only the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei, but also the interiors of neutron stars and the superfluidity that appears in cooled atomic gases. The lab solves complex equations that cannot be solved by hand using computers, and searches for new phenomena that no one had imagined. The lab actively recruits international students as well as students from Japan.
Sadashige Matsuo, Associate Professor
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The Matsuo Lab conducts experiments in which it fabricates very small artificial structures (nanostructures) from superconductors and semiconductors, and creates and controls new quantum physics with them. Focusing mainly on how electrons flow (transport phenomena), the lab investigates the quantum and statistical properties of electrons by precisely controlling devices. Devices are fabricated by methods such as electron-beam lithography and measured after being cooled to extremely low temperatures in a dilution refrigerator. The lab recruits undergraduate students doing graduation research and graduate students, and accepts lab visits at any time.
Fumitaka Kagawa, Professor
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The Kagawa Lab, with "nonequilibrium" as its keyword, explores and seeks to understand the various quantum states that matter exhibits, and studies how to control those states. The state of matter is normally determined as the most stable one under conditions such as temperature and pressure. On the other hand, many materials around us, such as glass and steel, are made by going beyond that rule. The lab aims to create and control new states of quantum materials using "non-thermal-equilibrium processes," such as sudden heating and cooling when a pulse is applied.
Teruaki Suyama, Professor
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The Suyama Lab studies the origin and structure of the universe from a theoretical standpoint. Modern cosmology, with inflation as its pillar, is now almost established, but comparison with observations has brought fundamental mysteries into sharper focus. The lab tackles topics such as the early universe, primordial black holes, gravitational waves, and gravitational lensing, from diverse perspectives and without preconceptions. Lab visits are accepted at any time with a prior reservation.
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