NEWS & TOPICS

• Jun. 30, 2021
  

  

  
  Ultrafast switching to an insulating-like metastable state by amplitudon excitation of a charge density wave:
  Naotaka Yoshikawa*, Hiroki Suganuma, Hideki Matsuoka, Yuki Tanaka, Pierre Hemme, Maximilien Cazayous, Yann Gallais, Masaki Nakano, Yoshihiro Iwasa, Ryo Shimano*
  
  
  
  
  Nature Physics：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01267-3
  
• May. 21, 2021
  QPEC is now in its third term (10 years) from April 1st,2021.
• Apr. 30, 2021
  

  

  
  Electric field control of natural optical activity in a multiferroic helimagnet:
  Doctoral Course (at the time) Ryoji Masuda, Department of Applied Physics, Associate Professor Youtarou Takahashi, Quantum - Phase Electronics Center, and other researchers.
  
  
  
  Science：https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6541/496
  
• Apr. 2, 2021
  

  

  
  A van der Waals interface that creates in-plane polarization and a spontaneous photovoltaic effect ―
  Takatoshi Akamatsu,Toshiya Ideue, Zhou, Yu Dong, Sota Kitamura, Mao Yoshii, Dongyang Yang, Masaru Onga, Yuji Nakagawa, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Joseph Laurienzo, Junwei Huang, Ziliang Ye, Takahiro Morimoto, Hongtao Yuan, Yoshihiro Iwasa
  
  Science：https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/68
  
• Mar. 19, 2021
  

  

  "Gate-controlled BCS-BEC crossover in a two-dimensional superconductor"
  
  Yuji Nakagawa, Yuichi Kasahara, Takuya Nomoto, Ryotaro Arita, Tsutomu Nojima, Yoshihiro Iwasa
  Science：https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/03/17/science.abb9860
  
  
  
• Jan. 5, 2021
  "Evidence for a higher-order topological insulator in a three-dimensional material built from van der Waals stacking of bismuth-halide chains"
  
  Project Associate Professor Motoaki Hirayama, Quantum - Phase Electronics Center, Professor Ryotaro Arita, Department of Applied Physics, and other researchers.
  Nature Materials：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-00871-7
  
  
  
• Nov. 03, 2020
  Prof. Yoshinori Tokura receive was selected as a Bunkakorosha (Person of Cultural Merits) in 2020.
  
  Prof. Yoshinori Tokura : "Condensed matter physics"
• Nov. 03, 2020
  Prof. Masashi Kawasaki receive Medal with Purple Ribbon in Autumn 2020.
  
  Prof.Masashi Kawasaki : "Achievement on materials science"
  
• Oct. 1, 2020
  Dr.Motoaki Hirayama was appointed Project Associate Professor at Division of UT-RIKEN Cooperation.
• Sep. 16, 2020
  

  

  "Giant magneto-optical responses in magnetic Weyl semimetal Co₃Sn₂S₂"
  
  Y. Okamura, S. Minami, Y. Kato, Y. Fujishiro, Y. Kaneko, J. Ikeda, J. Muramoto, R. Kaneko, K. Ueda, V. Kocsis, N. Kanazawa, Y. Taguchi, T. Koretsune, K. Fujiwara, A. Tsukazaki, R. Arita, Y. Tokura & Y. Takahashi
  Nature Communications：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18470-0
  Nature Communications Editor's Highlights ： https://www.nature.com/collections/rcdhyvxytb
  
  
• May. 19, 2020
  

  

  "Switching of band inversion and topological surface states by charge density wave"
  
  N. Mitsuishi, Y. Sugita, M. S. Bahramy, M. Kamitani, T. Sonobe, M. Sakano, T. Shimojima, H. Takahashi, H. Sakai, K. Horiba, H. Kumigashira, K. Taguchi, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, S. Ishiwata, Y. Motome & K. Ishizaka
  Nature Communications：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16290-w
  Nature Communications Editor's Highlights ： hhttps://www.nature.com/collections/rcdhyvxytb
  
  
• Mar. 30, 2020
  

  

  "Nonreciprocal transport in gate-induced polar superconductor SrTiO₃"
  
  Yuki M. Itahashi, Toshiya Ideue,*, Yu Saito, Sunao Shimizu, Takumi Ouchi, Tsutomu Nojima and Yoshihiro Iwasa
  Science Advances DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aay9120
  
  
• Feb. 27, 2020 Closed
  QPEC recruits Project Associate Professor or Project Lecturer. For the details, please see here. Deadline: Apr. 27
• Dec. 1, 2019
  Dr.Max HIRSCHBERGER was appointed lecturer at Division of UT-RIKEN Cooperation.
• Nov. 11, 2019
  Prof. Yoshihiro Iwasa received the 2019(the 65th) Nishina Memorial Prize.
  
  Prof.Yoshihiro Iwasa : "Discovery of Electric-field Induced Two-dimensional Superconductivity"
  The 2019(the 65th) Nishina Memorial Prize
• Oct. 23, 2019
  Dr. Masaki Uchida and Dr. Toshiya Ideue received the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.
  
  Masaki Uchida : "Experimental study on quantum transport in Dirac semimetal films of arsenide materials"
  Toshiya Ideue : "Nonreciprocal magneto transport in polar semiconductors and superconducting nanotudes"
  
• Jun.24, 2019
  "Nonreciprocal charge transport at topological insulator/superconductor interface"
  
  Kenji Yasuda, Hironori Yasuda, Tian Liang, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Kei S. Takahashi, Naoto Nagaosa, Masashi Kawasaki & Yoshinori Tokura
  
  Nature Communications：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10658-3
  
  
• Jun.20, 2019
  

  

  "Emergent photovoltaic effect in intrinsic tungsten disulphide nanomaterials"
  
  Y. J. Zhang, T. Ideue, M. Onga, F. Qin, R. Suzuki, A. Zak, R. Tenne, J. H. Smet, and Y. Iwasa
  
  Nature DOI：10.1038/s41586-019-1303-3
  
  
• Apr. 25, 2019
  QPEC recruits Associate Professor or Lecturer. This recruit is closed.
• Mar. 6, 2019
  "Topological transitions among skyrmion- and hedgehog-lattice states in cubic chiral magnets"
  
  Y. Fujishiro, N. Kanazawa, T. Nakajima, X. Z. Yu, K. Ohishi, Y. Kawamura, K. Kakurai, T. Arima, H. Mitamura, A. Miyake, K. Akiba, M. Tokunaga, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, T. Koretsune, R. Arita & Y. Tokura
  
  Nature Communications : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08985-6
  
  
• Mar. 5, 2019
  "Giant thermoelectric power factor in ultrathin FeSe superconductor"
  
  Sunao Shimizu, Junichi Shiogai, Nayuta Takemori, Shiro Sakai, Hiroaki Ikeda, Ryotaro Arita, Tsutomu Nojima, Atsushi Tsukazaki & Yoshihiro Iwasa
  
  Nature Communications : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08784-z
  
  
• Feb. 1, 2019
  Dr. Masaki Nakano and Dr. Taro Nakajima were appointed Associate Professor at Division of UT-RIKEN Cooperation.
• Dec. 18, 2018
  

  

  "Spin pumping from nuclear spin waves "
  
  Yuki Shiomi, Jana Lustikova, Shingo Watanabe, Daichi Hirobe, Saburo Takahashi & Eiji Saitoh
  
  Nature Physics DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0310-x
  
  
• Oct. 25, 2018
  Dr. Toshiya Ideue received the Ando Incentive Prize for the Study of Electronics.
  
  "Study of new transport phenomena and functionalities in noncentrosymmetric crystals"
  Toshiya Ideue
  31st Ando Incentive Prize for the Study of Electronics
• Sep. 21, 2018
  

  

  "A cascade of phase transitions in an orbitally mixed half-filled Landau level"
  J. Falson, D. Tabrea, D. Zhang, I. Sodemann, Y. Kozuka, A. Tsukazaki, M. Kawasaki, K. von Klitzing, and J. H. Smet
  Science Advances DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.eaat8742
  
• Jul. 31, 2018
  

  

  "Ultrafast dissolution and creation of bonds in IrTe2 induced by photodoping"
  S. Ideta, D. Zhang, A. G. Dijkstra, S. Artyukhin, S. Keskin, R. Cingolani, T. Shimojima, K. Ishizaka, H. Ishii, K. Kudo, M. Nohara and R. J. D. Miller
  Science Advances DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar3867
  
• Jun. 29, 2018
  QPEC recruits Associate Professor or Lecturer. For the details, please see here.
• May. 25, 2018
  

  

  "Gate-tuned quantum Hall states in Dirac semimetal (Cd1-xZnx)3As2"
  S. Nishihaya, M. Uchida, Y. Nakazawa, M. Kriener, Y. Kozuka, Y. Taguchi, and M. Kawasaki
  Science Advances DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar5668
  
• May. 18, 2018
  

  

  "Tensile-strain-dependent spin states in epitaxial LaCoO3 thin films"
  Y. Yokoyama, Y. Yamasaki, M. Taguchi, Y. Hirata, K. Takubo, J. Miyawaki, Y. Harada, D. Asakura, J. Fujioka, M. Nakamura, H. Daimon, M. Kawasaki, Y. Tokura, and H. Wadati
  Physical Review Letters DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.206402
  
• Feb. 27, 2018
  

  

  "Quantum phase transitions in highly crystalline two-dimensional superconductors"
  Y. Saito, T. Nojima and Y. Iwasa
  Nature Communications DOI :10.1038/s41467-018-03275-z
  

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