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Publications

  • 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 Letters 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