Labs in Tohoku University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics

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The lab uses accelerators to explore the physics of atomic nuclei, hadrons, and beams.

The Nuclear Science Research Group is based at the Mikamine Facility of the Research Center for Advanced Quantum Beam Science, and studies nuclear and hadron physics, accelerator science and beam physics, and nuclear and radiochemistry. The Mikamine Facility has three electron linear accelerators and a 1.3 GeV electron synchrotron, and serves as a nationwide joint-use and joint-research facility for researchers both inside and outside the university. Cutting-edge research is carried out using electron beams and gamma rays from 20 MeV to 1.3 GeV produced by these accelerators. Graduate students in the Nuclear Science Division take part in research in their respective fields in an environment with large-scale accelerators.

#Nuclear and hadron physics #Accelerator science #Nuclear and radiochemistry

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The lab uses theory to explore the world of elementary particles and atomic nuclei.

The Nuclear Theory Lab studies physics related to elementary particles and atomic nuclei from a theoretical standpoint. The research keywords listed by the faculty include quarks, gluons, hadron structure, lattice gauge theory, and heavy-ion collisions. The lab belongs to the Quantum Fundamental Physics Division of the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science.

#Hadron structure #Lattice gauge theory #Heavy-ion collisions

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A lab that explores novel quantum properties of matter through materials synthesis.

The Macroscopic Quantum Properties Lab explores the physics of strongly correlated electron systems, including magnetism, superconductivity, and topological phases, through comprehensive research built on materials synthesis. In strongly correlated electron systems, quantum orders characterized by phenomena such as symmetry breaking often emerge, and quantum effects appear on a macroscopic scale. Superconductivity, spin liquids, and the quantum Hall effect are representative examples. The lab grows high-quality samples of transition metal compounds such as oxides, nitrides, chalcogenides, and pnictides, and measures their electrical, magnetic, thermal, and optical properties. Each student is given their own research topic and carries out experiments from crystal growth through property measurement to data analysis.

#Strongly correlated electron systems #High-pressure synthesis #Superconductivity

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Strongly correlated electron physics: research and education on the properties of strongly correlated electron systems using leading domestic research facilities, including unconventional superconductors (cuprates, organic, iron-based)

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A lab that explores new aspects of magnetic materials that emerge under strong magnetic fields.

The High Magnetic Field Condensed Matter Physics Lab (Division of Magnetic Physics, Institute for Materials Research) uses intense magnetic fields that do not exist in everyday life to study new states of magnetic materials that appear under extreme conditions, and their origins. Among the external environments used to control matter, a high magnetic field is the external field whose strength, time structure, and history can be controlled most precisely. Using both static and pulsed high magnetic fields, the lab develops cutting-edge experimental techniques such as terahertz ESR, high-field X-ray spectroscopy, and neutron scattering instruments, and applies them not only in Japan but also overseas.

#High magnetic fields #Magnetism #Quantum beams

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A lab that explores the origins of physical properties from the structure of materials using X-ray diffraction.

The Microscopic Structural Properties Lab studies structural condensed matter physics, clarifying the origins of physical properties from a microscopic perspective through the structure of materials. Mainly through X-ray diffraction experiments using synchrotron radiation, the lab captures minute structural changes in order to understand the properties of materials. Its targets center on strongly correlated materials such as transition metal oxides, and range widely to organic semiconductors, coordination complexes, thin films, and surfaces. New students who join the lab first study diffraction theory and practice experiments using the instruments in the lab.

#Structural condensed matter physics #X-ray diffraction #Synchrotron radiation

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A lab that studies particle beam therapy, neutron technologies, and radiation measurement.

The Nuclear Radiation Physics Lab lists as its research themes particle beam therapy, boron neutron capture therapy technology, PIXE research, and accelerators and radiation measurement. Its research themes also include neutron diffraction and imaging, elemental analysis technology, and the development of neutron detectors. In the official faculty introduction of Tohoku University, the lab is presented as the Nuclear Radiation Physics and Engineering field, a cooperating division of the Department of Quantum Science and Energy Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering.

#Particle beam therapy technology #Neutron imaging #Accelerators and radiation measurement

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A lab that explores new quantum states of matter under ultralow temperatures, strong magnetic fields, and high pressure.

The Ultralow-Temperature Quantum Physics research group develops strongly correlated conducting materials with distinctive crystal structures and investigates their properties. The group searches for new ground states and quantum states that appear under extreme conditions such as ultralow temperatures, strong magnetic fields, and high pressure, and aims to clarify their mechanisms through property measurements at ultralow temperatures. The lab is particularly strong in research that derives new properties of the ground state of conduction electrons from studies of the Fermi surface, including the de Haas–van Alphen effect.

#Strongly correlated conducting systems #Low-temperature physics #Fermi surfaces

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A condensed matter theory lab that uses theory to explain the diverse properties of matter.

The Condensed Matter Theory Lab conducts research that theoretically explains the interesting properties of a wide variety of materials. Its subjects are materials made up of aggregated atoms and molecules, such as solids and liquids, and it also deals with unusual phenomena such as superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect. Based on quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the lab uses analytical approaches as well as first-principles calculations and numerical computation. Graduate education and research proceed through individual guidance from faculty members to students, as well as small-group seminars led by multiple faculty members.

#Strongly correlated electron systems #First-principles calculations #Nonequilibrium systems

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An experimental lab that uses physics to unravel the nonequilibrium behavior of living systems.

The Nonequilibrium Physics of Life Lab aims to describe and understand, in the language of physics, the properties of nonequilibrium soft systems such as living systems. Drawing on the theories of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, information thermodynamics, and soft matter physics, the lab experimentally investigates a wide range of systems, from biomolecules, cell membranes, and cell motility to microscopic particles. Professor Shoichi Toyabe moved from the Graduate School of Engineering and newly launched this lab together with Associate Professor Yuka Sakuma.

#Nonequilibrium thermodynamics #Information thermodynamics #Active matter