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The clarification of the nonreciprocal dynamics of the uniform hedgehog order in icosahedral 1/1 approximant crystal has been reported in:

Magnetic Dynamics and Nonreciprocal Excitation in Uniform Hedgehog Order in Icosahedral 1/1 Approximant Crystal
S. Watanabe: Sci. Rep. 13 (2023) 14438.

Press release of this achievement was issued on 2023 Sept. 6 from Kyushu Institute of Technology.


The clarification of the magnetic dynamics of the ferromagnetic order in icosahedral quasicrystal has been reported in:

Magnetic dynamics of ferromagnetic long range order in icosahedral quasicrystal
S. Watanabe: Sci. Rep. 12 (2022) 10792.

Press release of this achievement was issued on 2022 June 28 from Kyushu Institute of Technology.

This paper was introduced in the internet media TECH+ on 2022 June 29.


The theoretical discovery of the ferromagnetic order in Tb-based quasicrystal has been reported in:

Topological Magnetic Textures and Long-Range Orders in Terbium-Based Quasicrystal and Approximant
S. Watanabe: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 118 (43) (2021) e2112202118.

Press release of this achievement was issued on 2021 Oct. 27 from Kyushu Institute of Technology.


The theoretical discovery of the topological magnetic order in quasicrystal has been reported in:

Magnetism and topology in Tb-based icosahedral quasicrystal
S. Watanabe: Scientific Reports 11 (2021) 17679.

Press release of this achievement was issued on 2021 Sept. 3 from Kyushu Institute of Technology.

This paper was introduced in the Science News Paper on 2021 October 8.



The discovery of the critical point of the first-order valence transition of Yb in the heavy-electron metal YbNi3Ga9 has been reported in:

Pressure-Induced Valence Crossover and Novel Metamagnetic Behavior near the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Phase Transition of YbNi3Ga9
K. Matsubayashi, T. Hirayama, T. Yamashita, S. Ohara, N. Kawamura, M. Mizumaki, N. Ishimatsu, S. Watanabe, K. Kitagawa, and Y. Uwatoko: Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 086401.

Press release of this achievement was issued on 2015 Feb. 26 from ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo.



The results on emergence of quantum liquid state in the two-dimensional Helium 3 in

On Proximity of 4/7 Solid Phase of 3He Adsorbed on Graphite
-Origin of Specific-Heat Anomalies in Hole-Doped Density-Ordered Solid-
S. Watanabe and M. Imada: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 78 (2009) 033603.

was introduced on the front page of the Science News Paper on 2009 April 10.

This paper was also selected as Papers of Editor's Choice in the committee of Journal of Physical Society of Japan, which was introduced in News & Comments as a notable paper.
This paper was also introduced in Notable Papers in Recent JPSJ in BUTSURI Vol.64, No.6, (2009) p235.





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