Subjects
・Fundamental aspects of magnetism and magnetic materials・Search for new materials showing new and novel quantum phenomena
・Effects of geometric frustration in metallic magnets
・Quantum magnetism
of strongly-correlated-electron / low-dimensional / random / frustrated systems
・Search for new magnetic functional materials・Development of ecological magnetic materials
・Magnon Hall effect in magnetic insulators
Methods
・Sample preparation-Arc melting (single, tetra)
-Induction melting
-Optical floating zone method
-Solid state reaction
-Chemical vapor transport
-HIP*
-SPS*
・X-ray characterization
・Magnetization measurements (SQUID, VSM*)
・Transport measurements
・Specific heat*
・Thermal expansion
・Magnetostriction
・Neutron scattering
・NMR of magnetic materials
・57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy
・muSR*
・XMCD*
・RXMS*
(*) joint research
Materials
・itinerant-electron frustrated systems-YMn2, beta-Mn
-eta-caribide-type nitrides/carbides/oxides
-beta-Mn-type carbides
-Mo3Sb7
-Co shandites
-chimney-ladder transition-metal silicides/germinates
・transition-metal carbides/nitrides
-magnetic MAX phases
-transition-metal antiperovskites
・metal-cluster compounds
-GaMo4S8-type compounds
-V4S9Br4
・heavy-fermion and rare-earth systems
-Ce(Ru-Rh)2Si2
-ErNi2Si2
・random magnets
-(R-Y)Ru2Si2
・Metal-insulator transition systems
-BaVS3
-hollandaites
・metallic chiral magnets
-MnP
-Gd-Y alloys
・permanent magnets
-hexagonal ferrites