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{\Large \bf Materials Structure Physics Group}\\

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Professor &:&Youichi~Murakami\\
Associate Professor &:&Kazuaki~Iwasa\\
Assistant Professor &:&Takeshi~Matsumura~,~Hironori~Nakao\\
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(http://calaf.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/)\\
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To understand various phenomena resulting from interactions among charge, 
spin and orbital degrees of freedom, we take systematic approaches; 
searching for typical materials, growing high quality single crystals, 
measuring fundamental properties, and performing neutron and x-ray 
scattering. We also develop new instruments and experimental methods to 
contribute to the scattering science.

We own and operate a conventional triple-axis spectrometer with 
polarization analysis option (TOPAN) at the JRR-3M research reactor in 
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (Tokai).  X-ray scattering 
experiments are performed at a 4-circle spectrometer with a rotating anode 
in our group, and in cooperation with various synchrotron radiation 
facilities such as Photon-Factory (Tsukuba), SPring-8 (Harima), and NSLS (
BNL, USA).

Our recent research activities cover Mn perovskite oxides showing colossal 
magnetoresistance,  Ti and V perovskite oxides, Cu perovskite fluorides, 
and quadrupole ordering in rare-earth compounds.


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