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Publications

  • Quantum geometry in low-energy linear and nonlinear optical responses of the magnetic Rashba semiconductor (Ge,Mn)Te
    Tsubasa Takagi, Hikaru Watanabe, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Yuki Sato, Shingo Toyoda, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Kei S. Takahashi, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura, and Naoki Ogawa
    Physical Review B 113, 104417 (2026) — DOI | arXiv:2508.18818
  • Dirac Charge in Antiferromagnetic Topological Semimetals
    Kohei Hattori, Hikaru Watanabe, and Ryotaro Arita
    Physical Review Letters 136, 046603 (2026) — DOI | arXiv:2505.03191
  • Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism
    Tomáš Jungwirth, Jairo Sinova, Rafael M. Fernandes, Qihang Liu, Hikaru Watanabe, Shuichi Murakami, Satoru Nakatsuji, and Libor Šmejkal
    Nature 649, 837-847 (2026) , Review articleDOI | arXiv:2506.22860
  • Transport evidence of current-induced nematic Dirac valleys in a parity-time-symmetric antiferromagnet
    Hideaki Sakai, Yuya Miyamoto, Motoi Kimata, Hikaru Watanabe, Yanase Yanase, Masayuki Ochi, Masaki Kondo, Hiroshi Murakawa, and Noriaki Hanasaki
    Nature Communications 16, 11112 (2026) , press release U TokyoDOI | arXiv:2508.12397
  • Realization of a two-dimensional $d$-wave altermagnet in La$_2$⁢O$_3$⁢Mn$_2$⁢Se$_2$
    Shinichiro Asai, Junxi Hu, Zheyuan Liu, Shinichi Itoh, Daichi Ueta, Jin Matsuda, Tatsuto Hatanaka, Hikaru Watanabe, Ryotaro Arita, and Takatsugu Masuda
    Physical Review Materials (Letter) 10, L011401 (2026) — DOI
  • Scaling-dependent tunability of spin-driven photocurrents in magnetic metamaterials
    Gabriele Cavanna, Hidehisa Taketani, Hikaru Watanabe, Da Pan, Anna Honda, Daiki Oshima, Takeshi Kato, and Masakazu Matsubara
    Nanophotonics 14, 5611-5619 (2025) — DOI
  • Symmetry analysis of cross-circular and parallel-circular Raman optical activity
    Hikaru Watanabe, Rikuto Oiwa, Gakuto Kusuno, Takuya Satoh, and Ryotaro Arita
    Physical Review B 112, 115105 (2025) , Editors' suggestionDOI | arXiv:2506.21824
  • Multiferroic Collinear Antiferromagnets with Hidden Altermagnetic Spin Splitting
    Jin Matsuda, Hikaru Watanabe, and Ryotaro Arita
    Physical Review Letters 134, 226703 (2025) — DOI | arXiv:2412.20128
  • Nonlinear Hall effect driven by spin-charge-coupled motive force
    Kohei Hattori, Hikaru Watanabe, and Ryotaro Arita
    Physical Review B 111, 174416 (2025) — DOI | arXiv:2501.11234
  • Gapped nodal planes and large topological Nernst effect in the chiral lattice antiferromagnet CoNb$_3$S$_6$
    Nguyen Duy Khanh, Susumu Minami, Moritz M. Hirschmann, Takuya Nomoto, Ming-Chun Jiang, Rinsuke Yamada, Niclas Heinsdorf, Daiki Yamaguchi, Yudai Hayashi, Yoshihiro Okamura, Hikaru Watanabe, Guang-Yu Guo, Youtarou Takahashi, Shinichiro Seki, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, Ryotaro Arita, and Max Hirschberger
    Nature Communications 16, 2654 (2025) , press release DOI | arXiv:2403.01113
  • (Review) Magnetic parity violation and parity-time-reversal-symmetric magnets
    Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 36, 373001 (2024) , Invited topical reviewDOI | arXiv:2403.15680
  • Nonlinear optical responses in superconductors under magnetic fields: quantum geometry and topological superconductivity
    Hiroto Tanaka, Hikaru Watanabe, and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B 110, 014520 (2024) — DOI | arXiv:2403.00494
  • Effect of collective spin excitation on electronic transport in topological spin texture
    Kohei Hattori, Hikaru Watanabe, Junta Iguchi, Yuta Murakami, Takuya Nomoto, and Ryotaro Arita
    Physical Review B 110, 014425 (2024) — DOI | arXiv:2404.05204
  • Generalized Pitaevskii relation between rectifying and linear responses: its application to reciprocal magnetization induction
    Hikaru Watanabe and Akito Daido
    Physical Review B 110, 014405 (2024) — DOI | arXiv:2404.07489
  • Symmetry analysis with spin crystallographic groups: Disentangling effects free of spin-orbit coupling in emergent electromagnetism
    Hikaru Watanabe, Kohei Shinohara, Takuya Nomoto, Atsushi Togo, and Ryotaro Arita
    Physical Review B 109, 094438 (2024) , Editors' suggestionDOI | arXiv:2307.11560
  • Bulk photovoltaic effect in antiferromagnet: Role of collective spin dynamics
    Junta Iguchi, Hikaru Watanabe, Yuta Murakami, Takuya Nomoto, and Ryotaro Arita
    Physical Review B 109, 064407 (2024) — DOI | arXiv:2311.12212
  • Algorithm for spin symmetry operation search
    Kohei Shinohara, Atsushi Togo, Hikaru Watanabe, Takuya Nomoto, Isao Tanaka, and Ryotaro Arita
    Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 80, 94-103 (2024) — DOI | arXiv:2307.12228
  • Nonlinear optical responses in noncentrosymmetric superconductors
    Hiroto Tanaka, Hikaru Watanabe, and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B 107, 024513 (2023) — DOI | arXiv:2205.14445
  • Emergent Magneto-multipoles and Nonlinear Responses of a Magnetic Hopfion
    Yizhou Liu, Hikaru Watanabe, and Naoto Nagaosa
    Physical Review Letters 129, 267201 (2022) — DOI | arXiv:2212.03500
  • Effects of relaxation on photovoltaic effect and possibility of photocurrent within transparent region
    Yugo Onishi, Hikaru Watanabe, Takahiro Morimoto, and Naoto Nagaosa
    Physical Review B 106, 235110 (2022) , Editors' suggestionDOI | arXiv:2204.12727
  • Does the Ferroaxial Order Matter?
    Hikaru Watanabe
    JPSJ News Comments 19, 19 (2022) , Commentary on S. Hayami et al.,J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 91, 113702 (2022).DOI
  • Polarization-controlled tunable directional spin-driven photocurrents in a magnetic metamaterial with threefold rotational symmetry
    Masakazu Matsubara, Takatsugu Kobayashi, Hikaru Watanabe, Youichi Yanase, Satoshi Iwata, and Takeshi Kato
    Nature Communications 13, 6708 (2022) , press releaseDOI
  • Nonreciprocal Meissner Response in Parity-Mixed Superconductors
    Hikaru Watanabe, Akito Daido, and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B (Letter) 105, L100504 (2022) — DOI | arXiv:2109.14874
  • Nonreciprocal optical response in parity-breaking superconductors
    Hikaru Watanabe, Akito Daido, and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B 105, 024308 (2022) — DOI | arXiv:2109.14866
  • Superconducting piezoelectric effect
    Michiya Chazono, Hikaru Watanabe, and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B 105, 024509 (2022) , Editors' suggestionDOI | arXiv:2109.03461
  • Photocurrent response in parity-time symmetric current-ordered states
    Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B 104, 024416 (2021) — DOI | arXiv:2107.08627
  • Chiral Photocurrent in Parity-Violating Magnet and Enhanced Response in Topological Antiferromagnet
    Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review X 11, 011001 (2021) , Highly-cited paper in 2021-2025 (Web of Science)DOI | arXiv:2006.06908
  • Nonlinear electric transport in odd-parity magnetic multipole systems: Application to Mn-based compounds
    Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review Research 2, 043081 (2020) — DOI | arXiv:2010.08480
  • Bond Directional Anapole Order in a Spin-Orbit Coupled Mott Insulator Sr$_2$(Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_x$)O$_4$
    Hinako Murayama, Kousuke Ishida, Ryo Kurihara, Takahiro Ono, Yuki Sato, Yuichi Kasahara, Hikaru Watanabe, Youichi Yanase, Gang Cao, Yuta Mizukami, Takasada Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, and Shigeru Kasahara
    Physical Review X 11, 011021 (2020) , press releaseDOI | arXiv:2008.06380
  • Enhanced Magnetopiezoelectric Effect at N'eel temperature in CaMn$_2$Bi$_2$
    Yuki Shiomi, Yoshiki Koike, Noriyuki Abe, Hikaru Watanabe, and Takahisa Arima
    Physical Review B 100, 054424 (2019) — DOI
  • Observation of a Magnetopiezoelectric Effect in the Antiferromagnetic Metal EuMnBi$_2$
    Yuki Shiomi, Hikaru Watanabe, Hidetoshi Masuda, Hidefumi Takahashi, Youichi Yanase, and Shintaro Ishiwata
    Physical Review Letters 122, 127207 (2019) , press releaseDOI | arXiv:1811.08107
  • Symmetry analysis of current-induced switching of antiferromagnets
    Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B (Rapid Communication) 98, 220412(R) (2018) , Editors' suggestionDOI | arXiv:1812.11277
  • Group-theoretical classification of multipole order: Emergent responses and candidate materials
    Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B 98, 245129 (2018) — DOI | arXiv:1805.10828
  • Theory of orbital magnetic quadrupole moment and magnetoelectric susceptibility
    Atsuo Shitade, Hikaru Watanabe, and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B (Rapid Communication) 98, 020407(R) (2018) — DOI | arXiv:1803.00217
  • Magnetic hexadecapole order and magnetopiezoelectric metal state in Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Mn$_2$As$_2$
    Hikaru Watanabe and Youichi Yanase
    Physical Review B 96, 064432 (2017) , Editors' suggestionDOI | arXiv:1705.10349

Curriculum Vitae (Short)

Employment

  • 2024–2025
    Associate Professor (PI), Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
  • 2024–2025
    Assistant Professor (Ryotaro Arita group), Department of Physics, the University of Tokyo
  • 2022–2024
    Assistant Professor (Ryotaro Arita group), Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo
  • 2022.05–2022.09
    Project Assistant Professor (Ryotaro Arita group), Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo
  • 2021–2022
    Ph.D researcher of JSPS (Naoto Nagaosa group), Center for Emergent Matter Center (CEMS), RIKEN
  • 2018–2021
    Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (Youichi Yanase group), Department of Physics, Kyoto University

Education

  • 2018-2021
    Doctoral course, Graduate school of science (supervised by Prof. Youichi Yanase), Kyoto University
    Doctoral Dissertion
    "Theoretical Study of Nonlinear Current Generation in Parity-time Inversion Symmetric Magnets"
    (No. 4668, Degree of Science, 2021.03.23)
  • 2016-2018
    Master course, Graduate school of science (supervised by Prof. Youichi Yanase), Kyoto University
  • 2015-2016
    Bachelor course, Faculty of Science (supervised by Prof. Kensuke Kobayashi), Osaka University
  • 2012-2016
    Bachelor course, Faculty of Science, Osaka University

Contact

  • Email: hikaru-watanabe[at]eng.hokudai.ac.jp
  • Office: A2-20, Faculty of Engineering Building, Hokkaido University
  • Address: ( ) Nishi 8, Kita 13, Sapporo 060-8628, Hokkaido, Japan