Seiji HIGASHITANI
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University- Field of Specialty：
- Theoretical low temperature physics
- Topics of Research：
- (B01) Novel Edge Phenomena in Spin-Triplet Superfluids
- Specific Topics：
- Boundary effects in superfluid 3He
RESEARCH
I have been interested in boundary and impurity effects in superconductors and superfluids.
When I was a graduate student, I studied the proximity effect between a normal metal and a superconductor. After that, I have studied surface scattering effects in anisotropic BCS states, impurity effects on the dynamics of superfluid 3He in aerogel, etc.
* Anomalous quantum phenomena due to surface bound states in superfluid 3He
* Physics of proximity-induced odd-frequency Cooper pairs in superfluid 3He/aerogel composite system.
EDUCATION
- 1989
- Bachelor of Science (Physics), Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University
- 1991
- Master of Science, Yamaguchi University
- 1994
- Ph.D. (Science), Hiroshima University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 1998-2008
- Assistant, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University
- 2008-Present
- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University
SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS
"Magnetic Response of Odd-Frequency s-Wave Cooper Pairs in a Superfluid Proximity System",
S. Higashitani, H. Takeuchi, S. Matsuo, Y. Nagato, K. Nagai,
Physical Review Letters 110, 175301-1-5 (Apr. 2013).
"Odd-frequency Cooper pairs and zero-energy surface bound states in superfluid 3He",
S. Higashitani, S. Matsuo, Y. Nagato, K. Nagai, S. Murakawa, R. Nomura, Y. Okuda,
Physical Review B 85, 024524-1-5 (Jan. 2012).
"Knudsen-to-Hydrodynamic Crossover in Liquid 3He in a High-Porosity Aerogel",
H. Takeuchi, S. Higashitani, K. Nagai, H. C. Choi, B. H. Moon, N. Masuhara, M.W. Meisel, and Y. Lee, N. Mulders,
Physical Review Letters 108, 225307-1-5 (Jun. 2012).
"Proximity Effect between a Dirty Fermi Liquid and Superfluid 3He",
S. Higashitani, Y. Nagato, K. Nagai,
J. Low Temp. Phys. 155, 83-97 (2009).
"Strong Anisotropy in Spin Susceptibility of Superfluid 3He-B Film Caused by Surface Bound States",
Y. Nagato, S. Higashitani, K. Nagai,
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 78 (2009) 123603(1-4).
"Microscopic theory of sound propagation in the superfluid 3He-aerogel system",
S. Higashitani, M. Miura, M. Yamamoto, K. Nagai,
Phys. Rev. B 71, 134508-1-13 (2005).
"Transverse sound in liquid-3He-aerogel system",
S. Higashitani, M. Miura, T. Ichikawa, M. Yamamoto, K. Nagai,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 215301(1-4) (2002).
"Mechanism of paramagnetic Meissner effect in high-temperature superconductors",
S. Higashitani,
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 66, 2556-2559 (1997).
"Meissner effect in normal-superconducting proximity-contact double layers",
S. Higashitani, K. Nagai,
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 64, 549-564 (1995).
