News & Topics

  • December 2025 NEW!
    [New member] Dr.Kyoko FURUITA joined our group as Associate Professor.
  • October 2025
    [New member] Mr. Chuang has joined our group as D1 Student.
  • June 2025 NEW!
    [Seminar] Seminar by Mr. Raphael Wörnle, Mr. Matthias Niethammer, Dr. Matthias Widmann, and Dr. Fiammetta Sardi
    Time: 10:30-, 22nd ( Mon.) September
    Place: Seminar room M-342C, 3rd floor, M building, Institute for Chemical Research
    ・Mr. Raphael Wörnle (Ph.D. Student, 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart)
    Title：PL6 centers in 4H-SiC for spin-based quantum sensing
    ・Mr. Matthias Niethammer (CEO, Advanced Quantum GmbH)
    ・Dr. Matthias Widmann (Quantum Technology Expert, Advanced Quantum GmbH)
    Title：Quantum Technology - An application-driven business perspective
    ・Dr. Fiammetta Sardi (3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, currently R&D Engineer, QUBIG GmbH)
    Title：Scalable rare-earth ion technology for quantum computing nodes
  • July 2025
    [Paper] "Compact and portable pulsed measurement module using diamond NV centers" was published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 64, 070903 (2025) .
  • June 2025
    [Seminar] Seminar by Prof. Rezek (the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia)
    Title：Visible frequency plasmonic effects in graphene and diamond heterostructures [PDF]
    Time: 10:00-11:00, 2nd ( Wed.) July
    Place: Seminar room M-442C, 4th floor, M building, Institute for Chemical Research
  • June 2025
    [Award] Researcher(Concurrent) Frederick Tze Kit So received "Young Scientist Award 2025" from Quantum Life Science Society.
  • June 2025
    [Award] Mr. Kazuki Kondo received "Best Poster Presentation award" in the 7th Quantum Life Science Society Meeting.
  • June 2025
    [Award] Program-Specific Associate Professor Ei Shigematsu received "Young Scientist Presentation Award" in the 58th the Japan Society of Applied Physics Meeting.
  • May 2025
    [Seminar] Seminar by Dr. Karolina Schüle, Dr. Ilia Chuprina and Dr. Takuya Kitamura (Institute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, Germany)
    Time: 13:00-14:30, 19st (Mon.) May
    Place: N-402C in main buliding
    ・Dr. Karolina Schüle
    Title：Optimizing nitrogen-vacancy center formation during CVD diamond growth for quantum technologies [PDF]
    ・Dr. Ilia Chuprina
    Title：Photoionization of double negatively charged silicon vacancy in diamond [PDF]
    ・Dr. Takuya Kitamura
    Title：GHz-range AC magnetometry with an ensemble of NV centers in diamond using concatenated continuous dynamical decoupling [PDF]
  • May 2025
    [Paper] "Single tin-vacancy center in nanoscale diamond" was published in Discover Nano, 20, 81 (2025) .
  • May 2025
    [Paper] "Nuclear Spin Metrology with Nitrogen Vacancy Center in Diamond for Axion Dark Matter Detection" was published in Physical Review D, 111, 075028 (2025) .
  • April 2025
    [Paper] "Coherent photoelectrical readout of single spins in silicon carbide at room temperature" was published in Nature Communications, 16, 3405 (2025) .
  • April 2025
    [Paper] "Entanglement-enhanced ac magnetometry in the presence of Markovian noise" was published in Physical Review A, 111, 042605 (2025) .
  • April 2025
    [New member] Mr. Nagata has joined our group as M1 Student. Mr. Miyatani and Mr. Yamaguchi have joined our group as B4 Students.
  • March 2025
    [Graduation] Mr. N. Kamiyama graduated. Congratulations and wish you all do your best in your new fields.
  • March 2025
    [Paper] "Light Dark Matter Search with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamonds" was published in Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025, 83 (2025) .
  • February 2025
    [Paper] "Control of impurity incorporation into CVD diamond synthesized with tert-butylphosphine for quantum applications" was published in Applied Physics Letters, 126, 074002 (2025).
  • December 2024
    [Paper] "Emergence of giant spin-orbit torque in a two-dimensional hole gas on the hydrogen-terminated diamond surface" was published in Physical Review B, 110, L220407 (2024).
  • December 2024
    [Promotion] Tetsuri NISHIKAWA has been promoted to Assistant Professor.
  • December 2024
    [Award] Mr. Kazuki Okajima received Poster Presentation Award in the Quantum Innovation 2024.
    "Study on the photoionization path in PDMR of silicon vacancies in silicon carbide"
  • November 2024
    [Paper] "Robust sensing via the standard deviation with a quantum sensor" was published in APL Quantum, 1, 046106 (2024).
  • October 2024
    [New member] Ms. Mami ISHII joined our group as secretary.
  • October 2024
    [Transfer] Ms. Naomi Murakami has left our laboratory and to become the secretary of Institute of Advanced Energy.
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