News and History

2024/10/21

Koki Ono won the 19th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan(Division 1).


2024/4/12

Taiki Ishiyama won Best Research Presenter Award in 2023 Outstanding Graduate Research Grant for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Device Creation Outcomes Reporting Meeting.


2023/11/1

We are currently recruiting for a postdoctoral position (theory) at the Ryuji Takagi Laboratory at the University of Tokyo for the JST-CREST project related to our laboratory →Link


2023/10/27

Kantaro Honda won Student Presentation Award of Physical Society of Japan.


2023/4/27

Taiki Ishiyama and Yuki Haruna won Student Presentation Award of Physical Society of Japan.


2023/2/10

Ayaki Sunaga won the 7th Kenichi Fukui Incentive Award.


2022/11/3

Yuki Haruna won the ANPhA (Asian Nuclear Physics Association) Award on CLUSHIQ2022.


2022/9/26

Our recent research on "Observation of Nonlinearity of Generalized King Plot in the Search for New Boson" was selected as a Featured in Physics in Phys. Rev. X.


2022/9/2

Our recent research on "Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations in an ultracold SU(N) Hubbard model"was introduced in News & Views. New Scientist magazine also introduced our research in a recent article .


2022/8/24

Our recent research on "High-resolution Spectroscopy and Single-photon Rydberg Excitation of Reconfigurable Ytterbium Atom Tweezer Arrays Utilizing a Metastable State" was introduced in JPS Hot Topics.


2022/8/5

Kantaro Honda won the Presentation Award of summer school of condensed matter physics for young students.


2022/4/9

Yuma Nakamura won Student Presentation Award of Physical Society of Japan.


2021/11/10

Open position for Program-Specific Associate Professor or Program-Specific Assistant Professor→Link


2021/7/21

Our recent research on "PT-symmetric non-Hermitian quantum many-body system using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice with controlled dissipation" was introduced in JPS Hot Topics.


2021/1/1

Dr. Shitaro Taie got promoted to an assisitant professor.


2020/11/2

Prof. Yoshiro Takahashi awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon.


2020/8/1

Dr. Yosuke Takasu got promoted to an associate professor.


2020/5/4

Updated "Research"


2020/4/12

We would like to express our deep regret at emeritus professor Tsutomu Yabuzaki's passing on April 10th. 2020.


2020/4/3

Open position for Associate Professor or Senior Lecuturer→Link


2020/4/1

New members join us.


2019/12/2

We welcomed Abhilash Kumar Jha from Cochin University of Science and Technology.


2019/11/20

Koki Ono won Student Presentation Award of Physical Society of Japan.


2019/8/6

We welcomed Ilian Despard from University of Strathclyde.


2019/5/13

We welcomed Vikram Ramesh from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He will stay untill early July.


2019/5/1

We welcomed Phillip Lunt from the University of southern Denmark. He will stay untill the end of June.


2019/4/1

New members join us.


2018/11/13

Our recent research on "Experimental realization of ultracold Yb-7Li mixtures in mixed dimensions" was selected as an editor's suggestion in Phys. Rev. A.


2018/10/19

Shintaro Taie won the 13th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.


2018/10/1

Seiji Sugawa transferred to the institute for molecular science.


2018/9/3

Jongchul Mun from KRISS, Korea visited our group.


2018/9/1

Nobuyuki Takei joined our group as a program-specific associate professor.


2018/6/1

Hideki Ozawa won the best poster award at ImPACT未来開拓研究会2018 by the study in our group.


2018/4/4

Our recent research on "Spin dependent inelastic collisions between metastable state two-electron atoms and ground state alkali-atoms" was selected as the New Journal Physics "Highlights of 2017" collection.


2018/4/1

New members join us.


2017/12/6

Our recent research on "Beyond-Born-Oppenheimer effects in sub-kHz-precision photoassociation spectroscopy of ytterbium atoms" was selected as an editor's suggestion in Phys. Rev. A.


2017/8/1

Our recent research on "Magnetoassociation of a Feshbach molecule and spin-orbit interaction between the ground and electronically excited states" was selected as an editor's suggestion in Phys. Rev. A.


2017/4/1

New members join us.


2016/12/9

Takafumi Tomita won The 5th Student Presentation Award of the JPS.


2016/10/27

Shuta Nakajima won The 11th JPS Young Scientist Award.


2016/8/4

Takafumi Tomita won the Student Poster Award on ICAP2016.


2016/4/1

New members join us.


2016/3/3

Our recent research on "An ytterbium quantum gas microscope with narrow-line laser cooling" was highlighted by Perspectives on New Journal of Physics.
"Quantum gas microscopy of ytterbium: cool me twice", New J. Phys. 18, 031001


2016/1/18

Our recent research on Topological Thouless pumping of ultracold fermions was highlighted by news & views on Nature Physics.
"Ultracold atoms: A topological charge pump", Nature Physics, online (2016)


2015/4/1

New members join us.


2014/10/21

Dr. Seiji Sugawa (now PD at NIST) won The 9th JPS Young Scientist Award "for the study on the novel strongly correlated quantum phases in an optical lattice"!


2014/10/15

Hideki Ozawa won The 3rd Student Presentation Award of the JPS.


2014/4/1

New members join us.


2013/11/7

Professor Takahashi won Nishina Memorial Prize in 2013.


2013/10/23

Ryuta Yamamoto won The 2nd Student Presentation Award of the JPS.


2013/10/18

Dr. Ryotaro Inoue (ex-PD, now an assistant professor at TITEC) won Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan by the study in our group.


2013/9/1

A new member joins us.


2013/4/1

New members join us.


2012/10/29

Professor Takahashi won The 16th Takuma Hiroshi Memorial Prize.


2012/10/18

Dr. Takeshi Fukuhara (ex-member, now a postdoc at MPQ) won Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan by the study in our group.


2012/10/15

Kosuke Shibata won The 1st Student Presentation Award of the JPS.


2012/9/23

Our recent research on an SU(6) Mott insulator of an atomic Fermi gas was highlighted by news & views on Nature Physics.
"Quantum gases: Mott made easy", Nature Physics 8, 784 (2012).


2012/4/1

New Members came to Our Lab.


2011/12

Prof. Takahashi won APS Fellow.


2011/11/8

Assistant Prof. Yoshikawa won Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.


2011/10/12

Dr. Katsunari Enomoto (ex-member, now an associate professor at Toyama University) won Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan by the study in our group.


2011/8/8

Our recent research on dual Mott insulator system of bosons and fermions was highlighted by news & views on Nature Physics.
"An insulating mix", Nature Physics 7, 593 (2011).


2011/5/31

Our Research was Introduced in Physics of APS .


2011/4/1

New Members came to Our Lab.


2010/11/02

Our Research was Introduced in Viewpoint of APS.


2010/10/22

Assistant Prof. Takasu won Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.


2010/8/30

PD Rekishu Yamazaki won the Best Poster Prize in Summer School.


2010/8/19

Our Research was Introduced in Physics of APS .


2010/4/1

New Members came to Our Lab.


2009/10/12

New English Page is Opened.


2009/4/20

Our Research was Introduced in Physics of APS .


2009/4/1

New Members came to Our Lab.


2008/10/11

Prof. Takahashi won Ryogo Kubo Memorial Prize.