I want to create new substances! I want to learn technologies that are beneficial to the environment!

We conduct education and research that combines the science field of physics and material science, which explores everything from the truths and laws of nature to the essence of familiar materials and substances, with informatics (the science and engineering of information), which provides the means to extract and utilize data related to essences.

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About the Education Program

Learn physics from the basics and explore how to use it

From the first year to the first half of the second year, students take general education courses, college and department-wide (natural science) courses, and some information-related courses to acquire communication skills and social literacy, as well as a wide range of knowledge about natural sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology) and basic knowledge about information science. From the second half of the second year onwards, students in this course systematically take courses in each field, divided into physics and mathematics, mechanics, electromagnetism, thermal and statistical mechanics, quantum physics, material science, and materials science, in order to apply physics, which describes the truths and laws of the natural world, to substances, materials, and materials. In addition, students will use the knowledge they have acquired in information-related courses in specialized courses and learn how to apply it to practical information methods.

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About the classes

Solid State Physics A

This is an important field of study for understanding various functional materials that are essential in our high-tech society, and students learn about the bonding patterns of atoms in crystals, methods for analyzing atomic arrangements using X-rays, and the propagation of lattice (atomic) vibrations. In "Solid State Physics B," which builds on this foundation, students further utilize basic physics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics to understand the behavior of electrons in crystals, and develop this into the specifics of functional materials in "Materials Science" and "Quantum Matter Science."

About the Research

Development and elucidation of the physical properties of strongly correlated amorphous alloys - Creating unknown alloys that will amaze the world -

"Strong correlation" refers to a system in which electrons and other particles in a substance interact strongly with each other.
Representative phenomena of strongly correlated states include superconductivity, heavy fermion states, and giant magnetoresistance.
These phenomena are expected to bring about a revolution in energy and electronics materials. In order to pursue unique research, our laboratory focuses on amorphous alloys, whose constituent atoms have a random structure, and is developing "strongly correlated amorphous alloys," which have hardly been studied anywhere in the world. We aim to elucidate the superconducting phenomena and heavy electron states realized in strongly correlated amorphous alloys, and develop next-generation energy and electronics materials.

Associate Professor Yusuke Amami

Research Field
Strong correlation properties

Main research themes

1. Development of new rare earth amorphous alloys exhibiting heavy fermion and superconducting properties
2. Clarification of the phenomenon of giant thermal expansion in manganese-based amorphous alloys
3. Synthesis of intermetallic compounds aimed at the development of new materials that exhibit unique magnetic or thermal properties

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