Department of Physics

Introduction
The Department of Physics fosters human resources who possess the ability to pioneer unknown areas in physics and related fields as well as a strong volition for broad academic and social contributions.
List of Research Areas and Faculty Members
| Course | Faculty in Charge | Research Institute Area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear/Particle Physics/Astrophysics | Professor | Koichi Saito | Particle/Nuclear Physics (Theoretical) |
| Professor | Hideyuki Suzuki | Astrophysics (Theoretical) | |
| Associate Professor | Nobuyuki Sawado | Particle Physics (Theoretical) | |
| Professor | Junsei Chiba | High-Energy Nuclear Physics (Experimental) | |
| Condensed Matter Physics | Professor | Noriaki Hamada | Solid-State Electron Theory, Band Calculation (Theoretical) |
| Professor | Katsuro Hanzawa | Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (Theoretical) | |
| Associate Professor | Yoshiyuki Fukumoto | Condensed Matter Physics, Computational Physics (Theoretical) | |
| Professor | Masafumi Tamura | Physics of Molecular Materials(Experimental) | |
| Professor | Kiyoichiro Motoya | Magnetism (Experimental) | |
| Professor | Osami Haruyama | Structural Irregularity (Experimental) | |
| Professor | Hiroshi Yaguchi | Solid State Physics (Experimental) | |
| Associate Professor | Kaname Kanai | Surface/Interfacial Science (Experimental) | |
| Optical Physics | Professor | Atsuo Morinaga | Laser Spectroscopy, Atom Optics (Experimental) |
| Professor | Akira Suda | Nonlinear Optics, Ultrafast Quantum Optics (Experimental) | |
| (Visiting Faculty Members and Research Fields Based on the Joint Graduate School System) | |||
| Nuclear/Particle Physics/Astrophysics | Visiting Professor | Atsushi Enomoto | Accelerator Science (Experimental) |
| Professor* | Junsei Chiba | ||
| Visiting Professor | Kosuke Morita | Nuclear Physics (Experimental) | |
| Professor* | Junsei Chiba | ||
| Visiting Professor | Kaoru Minoshima | Optical Measurement (Experimental) | |
| Professor* | Atsuo Morinaga | ||
| Visiting Professor | Masanori Yamanouchi | Particle Physics (Experimental) | |
| Professor* | Junsei Chiba | ||
| Condensed Matter Physics | Visiting Professor | Tsuyoshi Miyazaki | Large-Scale First Principle Molecular Dynamics Calculations (Theoretical) |
| Professor* | Noriaki Hamada | ||
| Visiting Professor | Reiko Azumi | Functional Organic Materials Development (Experimental) | |
| Professor* | Masafumi Tamura | ||
| Visiting Professor | Satoshi Kashiwaya | Cryoelectronic Properties (Experimental) | |
| Professor* | Hiroshi Yaguchi | ||
| Visiting Professor | Naoki Shirakawa | Cryoelectronic Properties (Experimental) | |
| Professor* | Masafumi Tamura | ||
| Visiting Professor | Tadashi Takamasu | High-field Electronic Properties (Experimental) | |
| Professor* | Hiroshi Yaguchi | ||
| Optical Physics | Visiting Professor | Sakakiibara Youichi | Nonlinear Optics, Applied Physics (Experimental) |
| Professor* | Akira Suda | Visiting Professor | Katsumi Midorikawa | Ultrafast nonlinear potics(Experimental) |
| Professor* | Akira Suda | ||
| (Note) * indicates deputy advisors. | |||