Team Leader, RIKEN
Franco Nori
Educational Background
| 1987 | Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| 1983 | M.S. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| 1982 | Licenciado (i.e., B.S.) in Physics, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela |
Professional Experience
| 90 | Professor (first Assistant, then Associate, Full Professor and Research Scientist); Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
| 02 | Laboratory Head of the Digital Materials Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan. |
| 87---89 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| 82---87 | Conicit Fellow and Graduate Research Assistant; Physics Department. Also at Materials Research Laboratory, and NCSA; University of Illinois. |
Award
| 2007 | Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA |
| 2003 | Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK |
| 2002 | Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), USA |
| 1998 | Received an "Excellence in Research Award" from the Univ. of Michigan |
| 1997 | Received an "Excellence in Education Award" from the Univ. of Michigan. |
Research Topics
- Nano-science. Condensed matter physics. Complex systems. Interface between mesoscopics, quantum optics, atomic physics, and nano-science.
superconducting qubits, quantum circuits using Josephson junctions, quantum information science, atomic-physics-like phenomena in quantum circuitry, quantum nano-electro-mechanical systems, coupling resonators and qubits, non-classical photon state generation from qubits, designing artificial atoms, micromasers from artificial atoms, cooling artificial atoms, decoherence/entanglement/scalability of quantum circuits, quantum simulators, adiabatic quantum computing, quantum intereferometry, quantum thermodynamics, biologically-inspired micro- and nano-devices for controlling the motion of tiny particles and quanta, vortex dynamics, superconductivity, design of tera-Hertz radiation sources/filters/detectors, metamaterials, quantum metamaterials, dynamical instabilities (avalanches), complex spatio-temporal nonlinear dynamics, transport phenomena (of electrons, phonons, vortices, grains) in systems that have disorder and/or reduced dimensionality, quantum noise control and squeezed states in condensed matter (squeezed phonons and supressed quantum fluctuations in superconductors), Josephson junction arrays and micro- and nano-networks, acoustic interference, path-integral analytical studies of quantum interference effects due to electron motion in magnetic fields. Bio-complexity. Charge transport in biophysics.
Laboratory HP
- URL for the lab. http://dml.riken.jp/
Publications available online here
Publications in Refereed Journals
1986--: Over 300 publications (with over 7,500 citations; h-index: 43) in refereed journals: over 60 in Physical Review Letters, over 140 in Physical Review (A, B, E), 6 in Science, 9 in Nature journals, 2 in Reviews of Modern Physics, among others. Also, one in each of the following journals: Physics Today, Scientific American, Advances in Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics, and Physics Reports, among others.
Professor, Osaka University
Ogawa Tetsuo
Office
- Department of Physics, Osaka University Office address: Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan Office telephone: +81 6 6850 5350 (dial-in) Office facsimile: +81 6 6850 5351
- E-mail:
ACADEMIC DEGREE
- Type: Doctor of Engineering
- University: The University of Tokyo
- Date Obtained: December 1990
Educational Background
- April 1987 - September 1988: Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Ph. D. course April 1985 - March 1987: Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Master course April 1981 - March 1985: Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bachelor course
Professional Experience
- 2012 - present: Associate Trustee
- April 2010 - now: Vice Dean, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University January 2009 - now: Vice Director, Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University December 2008 - now: Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R.C.
- April 2007 - March 2009: Chair, Department of Physics, Osaka University May 2000 - now: Professor, Department of Physics, Osaka University May 2000 - March 2001: Concurrent Professor, Department of Physics, Tohoku University October 1997 - September 2000: Concurrent researcher, PRESTO (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology), Japan Science and Technology Agency August 1996 - April 2000: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Tohoku University October 1993 - July 1996: Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka City University April 1990 - September 1993: Researcher, Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation October 1988 - March 1990: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo
Award
- JSAP Award (1989), Japan Society of Applied Physics Marubun Award (2004), Marubun Research Promotion Foundation
Research Topics
- Theoretical condensed matter physics, laser physics, quantum optics, and nonequilibrium statistical physics
The research achievements that I have made are in the field of theoretical physics on condensed matters, quantum optics, and quantum electronics. In particular, I have been engaged in the followings.
1. Theory of low-dimensional excitons: I found for the first time that the optical absorption related to exciton scattering states in quasi-one dimension is qualitatively different from those of higher dimensional systems. This has become a standard knowledge in the field of optical condensed matter physics. Moreover, exciton-exciton interaction was analyzed with the new bosonization technique.
2. Theory of the Fermi-edge singularity (FES) in one-dimensional metals: With the use of the 2-band Tomonaga-Luttinger model, we evaluated the critical exponent of the FES, which is an anomaly of optical absorption and luminescence spectra, taking exact account of the electronic correlation.
3. Theory of exciton Mott transition and quantum pair condensation in electron-hole (e-h) systems: As the density of carries increases, the e-h systems change from insulating to metallic. This “exciton Mott transition” was for the first time described successfully by the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). In addition, electron-hole pair condensation, exciton Bose-Einstein condensation and e-h BCS state, is extensively investigated by the self-consistent T-matrix approximation.
4. Microscopic theory of photoinduced structural phase transitions: New mechanism, called “photoinduced domino mechanism” was proposed to describe microscopically early stage of the photoinduced structural changes in solids. This domino theory is now one of the standard models of the photoinduced phase transitions.
5. Dynamical and stochastic theories of lasers: Chaotic and stochastic properties of lasers with a low-Q cavity were numerically and analytically analyzed. I proposed the Toda-oscillator model of lasers.
6. Theory of continuous measurement in quantum mechanics: Theory of the reduction of wave packet due to continuous measurement was constructed. Continuous photodetection process was analyzed as an example to find the way of decay of the photon number due to measurement backaction depends on the photon fluctuation.
MEMBERSHIP
- American Physical Society (life member)
Physical Society of Japan
Japan Society of Applied Physics
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Masato Koashi
Educational Background
| 1988-1992 | Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo. Awarded the degree of BSc in physics. |
| 1992-1994 | Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo. Awarded the degree of MSc in physics. |
| 1994-1995 | Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo. Awarded the degree of DSc in physics for a thesis entitled `` Photon antibunching by two-photon interference." Work supervised by Prof. Masahiro Matsuoka. |
Professional Experience
| 1995 (8 months) | Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. |
| 1995-1999 | Research Scientist in NTT Basic Research Laboratories. |
| 1999-2004 | Associate professor at Department of Photoscience, School of Advanced Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI). |
| 2004-2010 | Associate professor at Division of Materials Physics, Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. |
| 2011-present | Professor, The University of Tokyo. |
Award
| 2009 | The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
Research Topics
- Quantum information, Quantum optics
Laboratory HP
Professor, National Institute of Informatics
Kae Nemoto
Educational Background
- Ph.D (Physics), Ochanomizu University, Tokyo
Professional Experience
| March 1997-March 2000 | Australian International Education Foundation (AIEF) Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Queensland. QLD, Australia |
| April 2000- Nov 2000 | Research Fellow, Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia |
| May 2000-May 2003 | Research Officer, School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor, UK |
| June 2003- March 2009 | Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics |
| April 2010- Present | Professor, National Institute of Informatics |
Award
- HP Labs Innovation Research Awards, 2008
Laboratory HP
Associate Professor, Keio University
Rodney Van Meter
Educational Background
- B.S. Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, 1986
- M.S. Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, 1991
Ph.D. Engineering, Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology,2006
Professional Experience
| 1986 | University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute |
| 1992 | ASACA Corporation, Hino, Japan |
| 1995 | University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute |
| 1998 | Quantum Corporation |
| 1999 | Network Alchemy |
| 2000-2003 | Nokia |
| 2006 | National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Assistant Professor, Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies |
| 2010 | Associate Professor, Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies |
Research Topics
- Distributed quantum computing architectures, quantum networking (repeaters, IPsec with QKD), quantum arithmetic, surface code quantum computation, distributed storage systems, all-IP system architectures
