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2021.02.26: The message from J-Physics for the International Year of the Periodic Table 2019 (atomic number 101, Md) is now available in the webbook "Our Periodic Table - Messages from Industry and Academia".
2020.07.01: Yoshihiko Okamoto (D01), Hisatomo Harima (D01), Masashi Takigawa (C01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Regular-triangle trimer and charge order preserving the Anderson condition in the pyrochlore structure of CsW2O6" in Nature Communications.
2020.05.13: Dai Aoki (B01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Multiple Superconducting Phases and Unusual Enhancement of the Upper Critical Field in UTe2" in Journal of the Physical Sciety of Japan. The paper was selected as "Editors' Choice".
2020.03.18: Dai Aoki (B01), Tatsuma D. Matsuda (B01), and their colleagues received the 25th Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan.
2020.03.05: Hisashi Kotegawa (B01), Hideki Tou (C01), Htoshi Sugawara (A01), Hisatomo Harima (Area Representative, D01), Tatsuo C. Kobayashi (B01), and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Helimagnetic Structure and Heavy-Fermion-Like Behavior in the Vicinity of the Quantum Critical Point in Mn3P" in Physical Review Letters.
2019.12.06: “International acting workshop on UTe2, ferromagnetic superconductivity and topological phenomena” will be held in CEA-Grenoble on March 10-11, 2020.
2019.11.27: S. Kittaka (B01) was awarded the 14th Condensed-Matter Science Prize.
2019.11.25: Dai Aoki (B01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Observation of a metamagnetic transition in the 5f heavy-fermion compound UNi2Al3: Magnetization studies up to 90 T for single-crystalline U(Pd1-xNix)2Al3" in Physical Review B. The paper was reported in the newspaper "The Sience News" dated November 15.
2019.11.19: Youichi Yanase (B01) , Jun Ishizuka (B01, PD), and their colleagues (Shuntaro Sumita, Akito Daido) published a paper, entitled "Insulator-Metal Transition and Topological Superconductivity in UTe2 from a First-Principles Calculation" in Physical Review Letters.
2019.11.11: J-Physics Annual Meeting FY 2019 (6-8 Jan. 2020) will be held.
2019.10.20: Kenji Ishida (B01), Shinsaku Kambe (B01), Dai Aoki (B01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled " Superconducting Properties of Heavy Fermion UTe2 Revealed by 125Te-nuclear Magnetic Resonance" in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. The paper was awarded the Editors' Choice.
2019.08.07: Tatsuya Yanagisawa (C01), Hiroshi Amitsuka (C01), Takahiro Onimaru (D01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled " Evidence for the Single-Site Quadrupolar Kondo Effect in the Dilute non-Kramers System Y_1-x Pr_x Ir_2 Zn_20" in Physicsl Review Letters.
2019.05.29: J-Physics has cosponsored the project “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019)", and sent a message. This project was founded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Periodic System by Dmitri Mendeleev.
2019.05.29: J-Physics ‘Monodukuri’ series No.3 “Training course on symmetry and group theory in Koyasan” will be held on August 5 - 10, 2019.
2019.05.20: “J-Physics Mini-Workshop in Osaka” will be held on July 16 - 17, 2019.
2019.05.16: “J-Physics Mini-Workshop in Sapporo” will be held on July 22 - 23, 2019.
2019.05.09: “J-Physics Mini-Workshop in Hongo” will be held on June 28 - 29, 2019.
2019.04.22: J-Physics Mini-Workshop in Sendai” will be held on June 12 - 13, 2019.
2019.04.22: J-Physics Mini-Workshop in Kita-Kyushu” will be held on June 8 - 9, 2019.
2019.04.22: International Conference “J-Physics 2019 International Conference & KINKEN-WAKATE 2019 Multipole Physics” will be held on September 17-21, 2019.
2019.04.01: Dai Aoki (B01) and his colleagues published a paper entitled " Unconventional Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion UTe2" in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. The paper was awarded the Editors' Choice.
2018.12.13: J-Physics Topical Meeting “Progress and Future Prospects of Research on Augmented Multipoles and Related Phenomena” will be held at Surugdai Campus, Maiji University on 21-22 January 2019.
2018.10.22: The “J-Physics: Tropical Topical Meeting” will be held at University of The Ryukyus (Nishihara-cho, Nakagami-gun, Okinawa, Japan) from 13th to 14th December 2018.
2018.09.28: The “International Workshop on j-fermion Physics and Materials”, co-organized by University of Otago, Okayama University, and J-Physics, will be held at Otago Business School, University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) from 4th to 6th December 2018.
2018.08.17: Takahiro Onimaru (D01)、Toshiro Takabatake (C01)、Kazurori Umeo (C01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Single-Site Non-Fermi-Liquid Behaviors in a Diluted Y1-xPrxIr2Zn20" in Physicsl Review Letters.
2018.07.30: Satoru Nakatsuji (A01)、Michi-To Suzuki (A01)、Ryotaro Arita (A01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Giant anomalous Nernst effect and quantum-critical scaling in a ferromagnetic semimetal" in Nature Physics.
2018.06.20: J-Physics Topical Meeting, ‘Monodukuri’ Series No. 3 “Forefront of Materials Search” will be held.
2018.03.14: International Seminar & Workshop “Frustration, Orbital Fluctuations, and Topology in Kondo Lattices and their relatives” will be held under co-sponsorship of J-Physics.
2018.03.14: International Workshop “Novel Phenomena in Quantum Materials driven by Multipoles and Topology” will be held under co-sponsorship of J-Physics.
2018.03.06: The recruitment for a Postdoctoral Position at the Research Institute of Interdiciplinary Science, Okayama University, has been started. (Deadline: March 30, 2018)
2018.02.16: J-Physics 2018: Summer School & International Workshop on New Materials and Crystal Growth
2018.02.16: J-Physics Annual Meeting FY2018
2018.01.16: J-Physics Annual Meeting FY2017
2018.01.15: The recruitment for a Postdoctoral Position at the Faculty of Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, has been started.
2017.12.13: J-Physics Topical Meeting “How to Create? ― Chiral Magnets and Augmented Multipoles”
2017.12.07: J-Physics Topical Meeting “Exotic Phenomena in Itinerant Multipole Systems”
2017.11.17: Yoshikazu Mizuguchi (D01) has been selected to the list "Highly Cited Researchers 2017" published by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters).
2017.10.12: ETH-Amsterdam-Kyoto miniworkshop will be held at Department of Physics, Kyoto University on October 20. Program download will start by clicking.
2017.10.05: Applications are being accepted for Invited Researches for FY2018 and 2019 (Japanese).
2017.10.04: The 11th Condensed-Matter-Science Cross-Area Workshop
2017.08.31: Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase (B01) published a paper entitled "Magnetic hexadecapole order and magnetopiezoelectric metal state in Ba1−xKxMn2As2" in Physicsl Review B. ― This paper was selected as an Editors' Suggestion.
2017.08.25: The program of the International Workshop J-Physics 2017 is now available.
2017.08.01: The recruitment for a Project Research Associate Position at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), the University of Tokyo, has been started.
2017.07.24: Satoru Nakatsuji (A01)、Michi-To Suzuki (A01)、Ryotaro Arita (A01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Large anomalous Nernst effect at room temperature in a chiral antiferromagnet" in Nature Physics.
2017.07.21: Satoru Nakatsuji (A01) and Hiroshi Amitsuka (C01) gave invited talks at the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES 2017) held on July 17-21 in Prague.
2017.07.14: Dai Aoki (B01) gave an invited talk at the international conference "Actinides 2017" held on July 9-14 in Sendai.
2017.06.05: Youichi Yanase (B01), Hideki Tou (C01) and their colleagues published a paper, entitled "Quasilinear quantum magnetoresistance in pressure-induced nonsymmorphic superconductor chromium arsenide" in Nature Communications.
2017.05.15: J-Physics Topical Meeting “Progress and Perspective of Studies of Augmented Multipole”
2017.04.24: J-Physics Topical Meeting “Superconductivity in strongly correlated multipole systems: Exploring common feature between f and d” is held at Tohoku University, Sendai, on May 11 and 12.
2017.04.22: J-Physics Summer School Textbook is published in a Japanese Journal Bussei Kenkyu, Vol. 6, No. 1.
2017.04.11: J-Physics Topical Meeting “New phenomena generated by correlation effects between localized multipoles and conduction electrons” is held at ISSP, The University of Tokyo on April 17 and 18.
2017.03.19: Yosikazu Mizuguchi (A01) and his colleagues received the 22nd Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan. The title of the paper is ”Superconductivity in Novel BiS2-Based Layered Superconductor LaO1-xFxBiS2".
2017.03.19: Taku J. Sato (A01) and his colleagues received the 22nd Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan. The title of the paper is ”Observation of Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice".
2017.02.23: Dai Aoki (B01) and his colleagues published a paper, entitled "Pairing mechanism in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe" in Nature Communications.
2016.11.21: J-Physics 2017: International Workshop on Multipole Physics and Related Phenomena
2016.11.18: Hiroaki Ikeda (B01) and his colleague published a paper, entitled "Exotic Multigap Structure in UPt3 Unveiled by a First-Principles Analysis" in Physical Review Letters. A figure describing superconducting gap amplitude of a Fermi surface makes the cover of Volume 117 of the journal.
2016.10.27: A paper entitled "Field-induced spin-density wave beyond hidden order in URu2Si2" was published by D. Aoki (B01) and H. Nojiri (B01, Invited) in Nature Communications.
2016.09.30: The 10th Condensed-Matter-Science Cross-Area Workshop
2016.07.15: An invited review paper writen by Takahiro Onimaru (D01) and Hiroaki Kusunose (C01), entitled “Exotic Quadrupolar Phenomena in Non-Kramers Doublet Systems ? The Cases of PrT2Zn20 (T = Ir, Rh) and PrT2Al20 (T =V,Ti) ?”, was published in the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan.
2016.07.13: A. Sekiyama (PI of Invited Research, A01) received The VUVX Conference Award (in condensed matter physics) at the 39th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics (VUVX 2016), which is held every three years.
2016.06.24: H. Harima (Project Representative, D01) organized a special colloquium "Celebration: Learning from the Birth of Nihonium" as an outreach activity of J-Physics, held in Department of Physics in Kobe University, and gave a lecture on the history of the periodic table and the diversity of elements for a wide audience.
2016.06.05: J-Physics Theory Workshop was held on June 4-5 at Meiji University, Tokyo.
2016.05.25: The J-Physics Summer School for Young Researchers
2016.05.23: Hideki Tou (Group D01) gave an invited talk entitled "Low-temperature NMR studies on ground states of heavy electron superconductors" at the meeting of Kansai division of Cryogenics and Superconductivity Society of Japan.(Japanese)
2016.04.21: M. Nohara (PI, D01) received the 20th Superconductivity Science and Technology Award.
2016.03.31: Prof. J. Flouquet (CEA Grenoble, France) gave an invited talk as a part of international activities of this project, and many of J-Physics members delivered their presentations in the 71st JPS Annual Meeting (2016) held at Tohoku Gakuin University (Sendai
2016.03.31: D. Aoki (PI, D01) gave a talk entitled “Recent studies on ferromagnetic superconductors” in Nano Seminar at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic).
2016.03.30: H. Harima (Project Representative, D01) gave a talk entitled “The origin of the parity-violation splitting in Fermi surfaces” in Seminar on Magnetism at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic).
2016.03.21: T. Sakakibara (A01), H. Kusunose (C01), Y. Yanase (B01), and H. Amitsuka (C01) were commended as JPSJ Outstanding Referees 2016.
2016.03.15: H. Amitsuka (PI, C01) gave an invited talk in the session “Hidden Order in URu2Si2 Revealed by Advanced Spectroscopies” of the APS March Meeting 2016 held in Baltimore on 14-18 March, 2016.
2016.03.13: D. Aoki (PI, B01), H. Amitsuka (PI, C01), and M. Nohara (PI, D01) gave invited talks in the International Workshop on “Anomalous Transport in Multipolar and Topological Materials” held at Johns Hopkins University on 11 and 12 March, 2016, co-chaired by H.
2016.02.26: M. Nohara (PI, D01) has been received the 21st Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan
2016.01.28: H. Harima (PL, D01), M. Nohara (PI, D01), and R. Arita (A01) gave invited talks in the APW-CEMS joint Workshop held at RIKEN on 25 - 27 January, 2016.
2016.01.15: Prof. V. Sechovský (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) visited Hokkaido University as part of the activities for developing an international research network.