Research

ArticlesList

• Dec 23, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Why a chiral magnet is a direction-dependent street for electrons

  

  Two different mechanisms are found to be responsible for the direction-dependent flow of electrons in chiral magnets

• Aug 27, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Marrying topological insulators with ferroelectricity

  

  Two very different properties have been realized in the same material, which could be useful in new devices

• Jul 25, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Antiferromagnet shows promise for harvesting energy

  

  A new magnetic material is very effective at changing heat into electricity

• May 28, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Spontaneous symmetry breaking in electron systems proves elusive

  

  What looked like a genuine case of spontaneous symmetry breaking was actually caused by tiny strains in samples

• Mar 31, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH A simple way to control superconductivity

  

• Mar 31, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Controlling self-assembly better than nature does

  

  Applying a magnetic field to rod-like viruses induces them to form disks of tunable shape and size

PublicationsList

1. K. Shinjo, K. Seki, T. Shirakawa, R.-Y. Sun, and S. Yunoki

   Unveiling clean two-dimensional discrete time crystals on a digital quantum computer

   npj Quantum Inf. 12, 41 (2026)
2. M. T. Littlehales, M. T. Birch, A. Kikkawa, Y. Taguchi, D. A. Venero, P. D. Hatton, N. Nagaosa, Y. Tokura, and T. Yokouchi

   Emergent reactance induced by the deformation of a current-driven skyrmion lattice

   Nat. Commun. (2026)
3. C. J. Butler, T. Ikenobe, M.-C. Jiang, D. Hirai, T. Yamada, G.-Y. Guo, R. Arita, T. Hanaguri, and Z. Hiroi

   Coexisting Electronic Smectic Liquid Crystal and Superconductivity in a Si Square-Net Semimetal

   Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 076001 (2026)
4. M. Hisada, K. Bulgarevich, Y. Tsutsui, K. Miyata, D. Shimizu, S. Seki, K. Takimiya, and K. Matsuda

   Fused Rubrene Derivatives with Embedded Seven-Membered Rings: Curvature-Dependent Photophysical and Semiconductor Properties

   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 148, 6716-6726 (2026)
5. J. Wang, S. Hu, X. Gu, M. A. Truong, Y. Yang, C. Liu, G. Kusch, Z. Yuan, M. Kober-Czerny, Z. Zhang, Z. Su, K. Nakano, A. Dasgupta, X. Zhang, X. Shen, N. Shioya, N. Kurose, D. Shirakura, Z. Wang, W. Zhou, M. Li, T. Hasegawa, X. Gao, K. Tajima, R. A. Oliver, Y. Zhao, Z. Ning, A. Wakamiya, H. J. Snaith, and H. Chen

   Homogenized Optoelectronic Properties in Perovskites: Achieving High-Efficiency Solar Cells with Common Chloride Additives

   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 148, 6229-6237 (2026)
6. Y. Sun, M. T. Birch, D. A. Mayoh, Y. Liu, S. Satheesh, G. Balakrishnan, M. Weigand, S. Wintz, and M. Burghard

   Thickness-dependent topological spin texture nucleation in the high-temperature two-dimensional ferromagnet Fe₃GaTe₂

   Phys. Rev. B 113, 064425 (2026)
7. H. Wada, and S. Murakami

   Local expression of fractional corner charges in obstructed atomic insulators and relationship with the fractional disclination charges

   Phys. Rev. B 113, 075306 (2026)
8. M. Miyake, Y. Onuki, F. Honda, D. Aoki, T. Kida, Y. Narumi, M. Hagiwara, K. Kindo, T. Takeuchi, R. Higashinaka, Y. Aoki, and T. D. Matsuda

   Metamagnetic Transitions and Pressure Effect in Antiferromagnet TbGa₆

   J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 95, 025001 (2026)
9. T. Nomura, S. Kitou, J. Komatsu, J. Kimura, K. Koga, T. Hasegawa, N. Ogita, Y. Nakamura, H. Ishikawa, T. Yajima, A. Matsuo, M. Kofu, O. Yamamuro, Z. Hiroi, Y. Tomita, T.-h. Arima, and T. Matsuo

   Ferroaxial Order of the Monolayer Ice in Martyite

   J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2026)
10. K. Yamagishi, S. Lee, T. Yokota, and T. Someya

    Soft Flexible and Stretchable Platforms for Tissue-Interfaced Bioelectronics

    Adv. Sci. e21521 (2026)