Chief Scientist Laboratories Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory
Chief Scientist: Akira Furusaki (D.Sci.)
Research Summary
We aim to understand theoretically various properties of materials of macroscopic scale from the physical laws that govern microscopic world. Many-electron systems having infinite degrees of freedom exhibit rich physical phenomena: they can have phases with spontaneously broken symmetry and transitions among these phases. A typical example is offered by magnetism and superconductivity in strongly-correlated electron systems, such as transition metal oxides and molecular conductors, which are the main research subjects of our laboratory. Our recent research subjects include unconventional ordered states and spin liquids in strongly frustrated quantum magnets and other new kinds of quantum phases like topological insulators and topological superconductors. Furthermore, we study quantum phenomena in mesoscopic systems of nanometer scale and statistical physics of random systems.
Main Research Fields
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Related Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Physics
Keywords
- Condensed Matter Theory
- Electric Transport
- Magnetism
- Superconductivity
Selected Publications
- 1.Morimoto, T., Ueda, H., Momoi, T., and Furusaki, A.:
"Z3 symmetry-protected topological phases in the SU(3) AKLT model"
Phys. Rev. B 90, 235111 (2014). - 2.Matveev, K.A. and Furusaki, A.:
"Decay of fermionic quasiparticles in one-dimensional quantum liquids"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 256401 (2013). - 3.Seo, H., Ishibashi, S., Otsuka, Y., Fukuyama, H., and Terakura, K.:
"Electronic states of single-component molecular conductors [M(tmdt)2]"
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 82, 054711 (2013). - 4.Furukawa, S., Sato, M., Onoda, S., and Furusaki, A.:
"Ground-state phase diagram of a spin-1/2 frustrated ferromagnetic XXZ chain: Haldane dimer phase and gapped/gapless chiral phases"
Phys. Rev. B 86, 094417 (2012). - 5.Momoi, T., Sindzingre, and Kubo, K.:
"Spin nematic order in multiple-spin exchange models on the triangular lattice"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 057206 (2012). - 6.Tanaka, Y., Furusaki, A., and Matveev, K.A.:
"Conductance of a helical edge liquid coupled to a magnetic impurity"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 236402 (2011). - 7.Onoda, S. and Tanaka, Y.:
"Quantum melting of spin ice: emergent cooperative quadrupole and chirality"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 047201 (2010). - 8.Ryu, S., Schnyder, A.P., Furusaki, A., and Ludwig, A.W.W.:
"Topological insulators and superconductors: tenfold way and dimensional hierarchy"
New J. Phys. 12, 065010 (2010). - 9.Schnyder, A.P., Ryu, S., Furusaki, A., and Ludwig, A.W.W.:
"Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions"
Phys. Rev. B 78, 195125 (2008). - 10.Hikihara, T., Kecke, L., Momoi, T., and Furusaki, A.:
"Vector chiral and multipolar orders in the spin-1/2 frustrated ferromagnetic chain in magnetic field"
Phys. Rev. B 78, 144404 (2008).
Recent Research Results
Dec. 1, 2017
Monopole current offers way to control magnets
Nov. 20, 2015
Melting of frozen frustrations
Mar. 27, 2015
Frustration produces a quantum playground
Annual research report
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Akira Furusaki
- Chief Scientist
Core members
- Tsutomu Momoi
- Senior Research Scientist
- Shigeki Onoda
- Senior Research Scientist
- Hitoshi Seo
- Senior Research Scientist
- Shunsuke Furuya
- Special Postdoctoral Researcher
- Takuya Furusawa
- Junior Research Associate
Contact Information
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Email: furusaki [at] riken.jp