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.

What's new

  • December 6, 2024: Collaboration with St-Jean group in Montreal on the observation of the quantized Hall response in photonic Chern bands in synthetic frequency dimensions is now on arXiv! arXiv:2412.04347
  • October 10, 2024: Carlos Camacho, a Ph.D. student from University of Birmingham in UK, is visiting us for two months!
  • September 23, 2024: Henning and Tomoki wrote a paper on geometric adiabatic amplification in non-Hermitian systems. Check it out at arXiv:2409.13595!
  • September 6, 2024: Our note explaining the relation between the many-body Chern number and the Hall conductivity is now published in Comptes Rendus Physique!
  • September 4, 2024: Paper proving the uniqueness of the lowest Landau level has now been published in Physical Review Research!
  • August 22, 2024: Ryo's work on bulk-entanglement spectrum correspondence has been published in Physical Review Research!
  • July 18, 2024: Greta's work on mean-chiral displacement in driven-dissipative systems has been published in Communications Physics!
  • July 1, 2024: Professor Henning Schomerus from Lancaster University is visiting our group until the end of August!
  • June 12, 2024: Collaboration with RMIT in Australia on a synthetic frequency dimension using a lithium niobate ring resonator is published in Communications Physics!
  • June 5, 2024: Collaboration with Illinois and Birmingham on chiral solitary waves in an Aharonov-Bohm ring is now on arXiv! arXiv:2406.01732
  • May 27, 2024: Bill's work on non-Hermitian many-body physics has been featured in the website of AIMR! AIMR Research Highlight
  • May 23, 2024: US-China-Portugal-Japan collaboration on generalization of Landau levels is now on arXiv! arXiv:2405.14479
  • April 22, 2024: In collaboration with Yoshiro Takahashi lab in Kyoto University, we succeeded in forming Bose-Einstein condensation at a topological edge state. This is the atom version of the topological laser, i.e. topological atom laser. You can read more in our arXiv paper! arXiv:2404.13769
  • April 3, 2024: Collaboration with the Gadway group at the University of Illinois and Pennsylvania State University on Aharonov-Bohm caging with Rydberg atoms is now on arXiv! arXiv:2404.00737
  • April 1, 2024: Tomoki has been promoted to full professor!
  • March 31, 2024: Ryo left the group to join SOLIZE!
  • March 28, 2024: We have proven a new type of bulk-edge correspondence, which we call bulk-entanglement-spectrum correspondence, for topological insulators with PT or PC symmetry. Please check our paper on arXiv! arXiv:2403.18372
  • March 15, 2024: Tomoki has received Marubun Research Encouragement Award from Marubun Research Promotion Foundation!
  • March 7, 2024: With Nathan Goldman from Bruxelles, we wrote a pedagogical note explaining the relation between the many-body Chern number and the Hall conductivity. You can read it on arXiv! arXiv:2403.03340
  • March 1, 2024: Bruno's collaboration with experimentalists on quantum metrology is accepted for publication in National Science Review!
  • February 9, 2024: The paper on a charged particle in a two-dimensional lattice under an imaginary magnetic field is published in Physical Review B! Phys. Rev. B 109, 085113 (2024)
  • February 1, 2024: Tomoki selected as the recipient of the 6th Teruo Hiruma Photonics Award by Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology!
  • January 17, 2024: Ryo's collaboration on non-Hermitian skin effect under nonsymmorphic symmetries is published in Physical Review B! Phys. Rev. B 109, 035131 (2024)
  • January 9, 2024: The paper in which we studied properties of a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation coupled to density-dependent gauge field is now published in Physical Review Letters! Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023401 (2024)

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