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{\Large \bf Superconductivity Physics Group}\\
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Professor          &:&Norio~Kobayashi\\
Associate Professor&:&Takahiko~Sasaki\\
Assistant
Professor&:&Terukazu~Nishizaki,~Naoki~Yoneyama,~Kazutaka~Kudo~and\\
& &Iwao~Mogi\\
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(http://ltp.imr.tohoku.ac.jp/)\\
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    The phenomenon of superconductivity is a remarkable example of
    quantum effects operating a truly macroscopic scale. Our purposes
    are to clarify its microscopic mechanism and to investigate
    interesting phenomena accompanying with an appearance of
    superconductivity. By the discovery of the high-T$_{\rm c}$ cuprate, the
    studies on the superconductivity take on a new aspect. Regardless
    of tremendous efforts of the physicists in the world, its mechanism
    has not yet been clarified. There exists another interesting
    superconducting system called as organic superconductors. In
    both systems, a strong anisotropy in electron system should play an
important role. 
In order to understand the mechanisms of such 
    unconventional superconductivity, we are studying the thermal,
    transport and magnetic properties. In these superconductors, very
    interesting phenomena in magnetic field such as the existence of a
    vortex glass, vortex melting etc. are also observed, which are very
    different from those in conventional superconductors. We are
    studying such phenomena by investigating microscopic electronic states
using a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in magnetic
field as well as macroscopic properties such as transport, magnetic and
magneto-transport properties in high magnetic fields up to 30 T. 

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