Kentaro Nomura
Associate Professor
Institute for Materials Research
Tohoku University

Address: 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Telephone: +81-22-215-2007
Fax: +81-22-215-2006
Email: nomura[at]imr.tohoku.ac.jp

Research field
Condensed matter theory: quantum Hall effects, topological insulators and superconductors, spintronics



Research projects

Quantum Transport of Dirac fermions
Cross-correlated responses of topological materials
Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Hall Systems
Spin Transport and Spin Generation in Semiconductors


Selected publications

Cross-Correlated Responses of Topological Superconductors and Superfluids
Kentaro Nomura, Shinsei Ryu, Akira Furusaki, Naoto Nagaosa
Phys. Rev.Lett. 108, 026802 (2012) [arXiv]


Surface-Quantized Anomalous Hall Current and the Magnetoelectric Effect
in Magnetically Disordered Topological Insulators
Kentaro Nomura, Naoto Nagaosa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 166802 (2011) [arXiv]


Field-induced Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the N=0 Landau level of graphene
Kentaro Nomura, Shinsei Ryu, Dung-Hai Lee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 216801 (2009) [arXiv]


Quantum Hall Effect of Massless Dirac Fermions in a Vasnishing Magnetic Field
K. Nomura, S. Ryu, M. Koshino, C. Mudry, and A. Furusaki
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246806 (2008) [arXiv]


Topological Delocalization of Two-Dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions
Kentaro Nomura, Mikito Koshino, and Shinsei Ryu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146806 (2007). [arXiv]


Quantum Transport of Massless Dirac Fermions
Kentaro Nomura and A.H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076602 (2007). [arXiv]


Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in Graphene
Kentaro Nomura and A.H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 256602 (2006). [arXiv]


Edge-spin accumulation in semiconductor two-dimensional hole gases
K. Nomura, J. Wunderlich, J. Sinova, B. Kaestner, A.H. MacDonald, T. Jungwirth
Phys. Rev. B. 72 245330 (2005) [arXiv]


Dependence of the intrinsic spin Hall effect on spin-orbit interaction charecter
K. Nomura, J. Sinova, N.A. Sinitsyn, and A. H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. B. 72 165316 (2005) [arXiv]


Gap evolution in nu=1/2 bilayer quantum Hall systems
Kentaro Nomura and Daijiro Yoshioka
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 73 2612 (2004). [arXiv]


Evolution of nu=1 bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnet
Kentaro Nomura and Daijiro Yoshioka
Phys. Rev. B 66 153310 (2002). [arXiv]


Presentation

"Magneto-Electric Effect in Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators from Surface Magnetic Disorder and Ferromagnetic Thin Film"

Invited talk at APS March Meeting 2012 in Boston. (slides)


"Dirac fermion transport in graphene" (slides)


KITP Miniprogram, Electronic Properties of Graphene, Jan. 19 2007.



Lecture

"Topological insulators"

Tohoku University. (lecture note)

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