Graduate School of
Science and Engineering

In the technological development, designing innovative materials is crucially important. However, it remains difficult to design desirable materials from purely theoretical prediction. This is because complex physical systems may exhibit behavior that cannot be understood only in terms of the laws governing their microscopic constituents, as indicated by P.W. Anderson. For example, superconductivity is a phenomenon that shows quantum-mechanical effects on a macroscopic scale. Here we need its own fundamental principles, largely different from the laws governing individual electrons. In our group, we work on clarifying curious physical properties in some topical magnetic/ superconducting materials based on the electronic structures, and constructing new theoretical concepts. In addition, we aim to make predictions of novel properties and new quantum phases, and design new high-temperature superconductors from the long-term perspective.