Welcome to Ozawa group at Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) in Tohoku University!
We are a theoretical physics research group, studying an intersection between condensed matter physics and atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

The group in April, 2025
The group
The group photo of April 2024
The group photo of April 2023
The group photo of April 2022

What's new

  • June 2, 2025: Dr. Yanyan He joined our group as a postdoc. Welcome Yan!
  • May 28, 2025: Tomoki published an article "What is topological photonics?" in the Review of Laser Engineering, which is a journal published by the Laser Society of Japan.
  • April 11, 2025: Research grant submitted in collaboration with Professor Hitoshi Omori from Graduate School of Information Sciences has been accepted for Frontier Research in Duo (FRiD) funded by Tohoku University! The title of the proposal is "Essence of quantum physics: From physical, logical, and philosophical perspectives."
  • April 1, 2025: Tomoki has become the deputy director of AIMR!
  • March 10, 2025: Bill's new paper, in collaboration with Hosho Katsura from University of Tokyo, on quantum many-body scar is now on arXiv! arXiv:2503.05252
  • February 21, 2025: Tomoki's lecture note on topological band structures in AMO systems for International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" in 2022 is published as one chapter of the proceedings of the school!
  • February 19, 2025: Our paper on geometric adiabatic amplification in non-Hermitian systems is now published in Physical Review Research!
  • January 22, 2025: Intercontinental collaboration on geometrical responses of generalized Landau Levels is now on arXiv! arXiv:2501.11519
  • January 17, 2025: Collaboration with Jie Wang group at Temple University on lattice realization of Landau levels is now on arXiv! arXiv:2501.09742
  • January 10, 2025: Collaboration with the Gadway group at the University of Illinois and Pennsylvania State University on Aharonov-Bohm caging with Rydberg atoms is now published in Nature Physics!

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