■ News & TOPICS

2015/6/29

List of selected publications and invited talks of our 5-year project have been uploaded.

2015/3/5

Newsletter No.5 is now available from our website.

2014/11/21

K. Mizushima (D01) received the 9th Condensed-Matter Science Prize.

2014/10/8

Yoichi Ando (C01) received the 32nd Osaka Science Prize.

2014/8/22

The 8th Joint Research Meeting of MEXT National Projects on Condensed Matter Science will be held on November 21th and 22th at Osaka University.

2014/7/28

Newsletter No.4 is now available from our website.

2014/6/16

Young Researcher Programs page is updated.

2014/5/22

A review article on 'Majorana fermion' by Sato (D01) has been published from BUTURI (monthely membership journal of the physical society of Japan).

2014/5/13

Ueno (C01) was awarded a prize of The Ministry of Education, Culture,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan in 2014.

2014/4/24

Fujimoto(D04) and Nomura (D04) gave tutorial lectures on Majorana fermions and Weyl semimetals, respectively, at the fall meeting of the Physical Society of Japan.

2014/4/24

A paper reporting "Strong increase of Tc of Sr2RuO4 under both tensile and compressive strain" by Hicks, Yonezawa (A01), Maeno(A01), Mackenzie et al., has been published in Science.

2014/4/17

Yoichi Ando （C01) received the 30th Inoue Prize for Science for "Pioneering Research of Topological Insulators and Superconductors".

2014/4/14

Review papers by Y. Tanaka (D01), M. Sato (D01) and N. Nagaosa (D01), and by Y. Maeno (A01), K. Ishida (A01), S. Yonezawa (A01) et al. have been selected among the top 10 most-cited papers of published in 2012.J. Phys. Soc. Japan

2014/1/10

Institute of Physics commented on helium crystals in zero gravity observed by Nomura (B01) and others.

2013/11/29

Yamakage (D01) received the 8th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.

2013/11/29

Iwasawa (A01) received the 8th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.

2013/7/10

A paper reporting "Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Superfluid 3He-A" by Ikegami (Group B01) et al. was published in Science.

2013/7/1

A paper reporting "Surface Majorana Cone of the Superfluid 3He B Phase", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80, 013602 (2011) by Nomura (B01), Higashitani(B01) et al., is selected among the JPSJ Most Cited Artcles in 2012.

2013/7/1

A paper reporting "Disorder-Induced Multiple Transition Involving Z2 Topological Insulator", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80, 053703 (2011) by Yamakage (D01), Imura (D01) et al., is selected among the JPSJ Most Cited Artcles in 2012.

2013/6/3

We serve as one of the sponsors of the 7th ISSP international workshop "Emergent Quantum Phases in Condensed Matter.

2013/5/15

The project leader Yoshiteru MAENO received the Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Government of Japan.

2013/5/14

Special Lectures by Prof. Leggett, one of the advisors of our project, will be given at kyoto university.

2013/4/1

Nomura(B01), Higashitani(B01) and others recieved the 18th JPS Award for Outstanding Papers for"Surface Majorana Cone of the Superfluid 3He B Phase", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80, 013602 (2011).

2013/3/11

Sato(D01), Segawa(C01), Ando (C01) received the Award on Superconductivity Science and Technology for "Theoretical and experimental research on topological superconductors"

2013/2/21

Finding of the first-order superconducting transition in Sr2RuO4 by S. Yonezawa, Y. Maeno (A01) et al. is published in Physical Review Letters. The results are also reported in The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun as well as in the Kyoto University Website.

2013/2/21

R. Nomura(B01) received the young researcher award of TITECH for "the Discovery of Majorana Cone in Topological Superfluid 3He".

2012/12/25

Shunsuke Furukawa of Ueda's group (D01) received the 7th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan for his research "Topological entanglement entropy in the quantum dimer model on the triangular lattice".

2012/12/25

Mizushima (D01) received the 7th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.

2012/11/5

The research by Nomura (B01) and others on "Suppression of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and Quantum Criticality in 4He Films at High Pressures" was picked up by Pacific Physics Newsletter.

2012/10/3

The 6th Joint Research Meeting of MEXT National Projects on Condensed Matter Science will be held on November 27th and 28th at The University of Tokyo.

2012/9/10

Open project solicitations have been started.

2012/8/20

Publications/Presentations page has been relaunched.

2012/8/20

Topics and reports from recent research are posted.

2012/7/25

Seven members of our project will give invited talks at M2S (Materials and Mechanism of Superconductivity) Coference.

2012/7/9

Results on skyrmions by Mizushina (D01), Nitta (D03) et al. appeared on the cover page of Physical Review Letters.

2012/6/28

Satoshi Sasaki (C01, Ando-Segawa group)　received the poster award at the Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electron Systems.

2012/6/20

Photos of TQP2012 are uploaded on the conference website.

2012/4/2

Yoshikawa and Murakawa in group B received Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.

2012/2/15

Newsletter No. 2 published.

2012/2/1

Regsitration page for the TQP2012 is now opened.

2012/1/6

A review paper on the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4 by Maeno (Project leader), Yonezawa (Group A01), Ishida (Group A01) et al. has been published in the special issue of the Journal of Physical Society of Japan.

2012/1/6

A review paper about Symmetry and topology in superconductors focusing on the odd-frequency pairing and edge states by Tanaka (leader of group D01), Sato (Group D01), and　Nagaosa (Group C01) has been published in the special issue of the Journal of Physical Society of Japan.

2012/1/6

The activities of the "Topological Quantum Phenomena" project such as the discovery of topological superconductivity in a doped topological insulator by Ando (C01) et al. and interview of Maeno (Project leader) were covered by Nikkei.com.(online).

2011/12/10

The International Conference on Topological Quantum Phenomena (TQP2012) will be held bewteen May 16 and 20 at Nagoya University

2011/11/17

A paper reporting the first confirmation of a topological superconductivity on a material relating to the topological insulator (C01, Segawa Group) was published in Physical Review Letters and was featured in an article in Science News.

2011/11/17

A recent paper on the mass acquisition of Dirac fermions in Tl-based topological insulators (C01, Sato) was published in Nature Physics. The experimental data were selected as the cover design.

2011/10/7

A recent paper reporting the optimization of topological insulator materials (C01, Segawa Group) was spotlighted in Physics, the online journal of the American Physics Society to publicize exceptional research.

2011/9/22

Takehito Yokoyama (D04) received Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan

2011/9/8

The Second Annual Meeting will be held at Okayama University from Dec. 17th to 19th.

2011/8/11

The 5th Joint Research Meeting of MEXT National Projects on Condensed-Matter Science will be held in November at Tohoku University.

2011/7/12

The Paper "Josephson Current through a Planar Junction of Graphene" by Ken-Ichiro Imura (D04) and Yositaka Takane is selected as "Papers of Editor's Choice" of Journal of the Physical Society of Japan.

2011/7/8

Article "Door meten tot weten - 100th Anniversary of Superconductivity - " by Y. Maeno (A01), Y. Iwasa (C01) and K. Kanoda has been published in Butsuri (the monthly Journal of the Physical Society of Japan).

2011/6/18

Profiles of the solicitation program members have been uploaded.

2011/6/15

Registration page for the Young-Researchers Workshop is now opened.

2011/6/6

The Paper "Discovery of superconductivity in KTaO3 by electrostatic carrier doping" (Ueno, Nojima, Iwasa et.al.) was picked up by Nature Nanotechnology Online.

2011/6/6

The Paper on Topological Insulator (Sato, Ando, Segawa, et.al.) was published in Physical Review Letters on May 25th.

2011/5/16

Special Lectures by Prof. Leggett, one of the advisors of our project, will be given at Univ. of Tokyo

2011/4/28

Publication/Presentation page is updated.

2011/3/28

Call for applications for a PD posirition (Yoshi Maeno's group at Kyoto Univ.)

2011/3/28

Call for applications for a PD position （Yoichi Ando's group at Osaka Univ.)

2011/2/25

News Letter No.1 published.

2011/2/21

Please visit the Public Outreach page (in Japnaese)

2011/2/14

Call for Applications: a PD/Project researcher　Closed on Feb. 25, 2011

2011/1/20

A paper reporting the observation of Majorana cone in the superfluid He-B phase (Murakawa, Nomura, Higashitani et.al.) is selected as an Editor's Choice in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan.

2011/1/14

The paper reporting the discovery of Half-Flux Quantum (Jang, Budakian, Maeno et al.) was published in Jan. 14 issue of Science.

2010/12/15

A recent paper reporting the discovery of a new topological insulator material (C01, Ando Group) was spotlighted in Physics, the online journal of the American Physics Society to publicize exceptional research.

2010/11/9

The project leader Yoshiteru MAENO received the NISHINA Memorial Prize 2010 for "Discovery of Spin-Triplet Superconductor - Ruthenium Oxide".

2010/10/13

Registration for The First Annual Meeting is now being accepted

2010/9/2

Open project solicitations have been started.

2010/9/1

The project's website is launched.

2010/7/1

"Topological Quantum Phenomena in Condensed Matter with Broken Symmetries" has been accepted by MEXT.