Prof. Oda's Group
Research Field
Prof. Oda’s Laboratory is devoted to the studies on Theoretical Material Physics and Computational Material Science. In the laboratory, though we may perform the various topics in the sciences, currently, the subjects in the intersecting field among the three key words of Nanoscience (the scale of target systems), Magnetism (the basic theory), and First-Principles Molecular Dynamics (the researching method), are mainly studied. Needless to describe in detail, our laboratory is devoted to developments/ implementations (programing) of the computation code used in the studies, and to visualization of the calculated results, if needed. In such laboratory as devoted to Nanoscience, due to the development of computational facilities, we can encounter very interesting phenomena of physics or computational science even in elemental or out-of-date topics. Namely, in our laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, there is an interesting attempt to discover new truths by studying the past through scrutiny of the old.
News/Up-dated information
On November 17th 2015,
The original research work by Naohiro Kitagawa et al. has been accepted for publishing in the international academic journal, Chemical Physics Letters, issued by the publishing company of Elsevier.
On April 1st 2015,
Masao Obata has been adopted as Postdoctral Fellowship for Research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science（DC2）.
On February 26th 2015,
The original research work by Daiki Yoshikawa, Masao Obata et al. has been accepted for publishing in Proceedings of Computational Science Workshop 2014 (CSW2014).
On November 14th 2014,
The original research work by Masao Obata et al. has been accepted for publishing in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan which is European academic journal published by The Physical Society of Japan.
On Octorber 29th 2014,
The original research work by Masao Obata et al. has been accepted for publishing in Applied Physics Express which is academic letters journal published by The Japan Society of Applied Physics.
On September 5th 2014,
The research work of solid state Hydrogen simulation with using evolutionary algorithm made in this laboratory has been accepted for publishing in Physical Review B which is academic journal published by American Physical Society.
On May 12th 2014,
The original research work by Makoto Nakamura et al. has been accepted for publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics which is academic journal published by American Institute of Physics.
On November 20th 2013,
The original research presentation by Makoto Nakamura has been elected to Outstanding Student Presentation Award on 3rd International Conference on Molecular Simulation（ICMS2013）(November, 2013, Kobe) .
The presentation title is Development of Ab-initio Mean-force Dynamics Using a Logarithmic Energy Landscape for Constructing Free-Energy Profiles.
On July 30th 2013,
The original research work by Masao Obata et al. has been accepted for publishing in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan which is European academic journal published by The Physical Society of Japan.
List of past News/Up-dated information
To the student who wants joining us
In our laboratory, even the student member studies world’s advanced topics and uses state-of-art methods. Needless to write, it is better and desirable for him/her to understand the basic topics in the text books and to study them very well. However, the most important things are to challenge and contribute to the advanced studies, enhancing your strong points. When you perform researches in the laboratory, the students are requested to finish taking every subject in the given lecture courses. In the laboratory, the most important lecture should be Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics (if possible, analytical mechanics), or Thermo-Dynamical and Statistical Physics, etc. In the simulation with computers, we carry out computational experimentations. The students are requested to learn the experimental sense taking the courses of Computational Experiments and Experiments in Physics. The students, who want to join to Prof. Oda’s group, are promoted to learn by themselves with using the following text books;
- Introduction to solid state physics, Charles Kittel, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Principles of the Theory of Solids, J. M. Ziman, Cambridge University Press.
