Ken-Ichiro Imura, Dr.

Research Associate at Prof. Yoshio Kuramoto's Laboratory
Theoretical Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group, Tohoku University

Research interests

• low-dimensional systems
  
• mesoscopic systems
  
• graphene
  
• spintronics
  
• electronic correlations
  
• geometric (Berry) phase
  

Preprints

• "Anti-localization of graphene under substrate electric field"
  Ken-Ichiro Imura, Yoshio Kuramoto, Kentaro Nomura, arXiv:0904.1676.
  
  
• "Superconductivity and current confinement in quantized spin Hall insulator"
  Jun Goryo, Nobuki Maeda, Ken-Ichiro Imura, arXiv:0904.1676.
  
  

Recent publications

• "Spin-orbit effects in a graphene bipolar pn junction",
  A. Yamakage, K.-I. Imura, J. Cayssol, Y. Kuramoto, Europhys. Lett. 87, 47005 (2009).
  
  
• "Weak localization properties of doped Z2 topological insulator"
  Ken-Ichiro Imura, Yoshio Kuramoto, Kentaro Nomura, Phys. Rev. B 80, 085119 (2009).
  
  
• "Colossal spin fluctuations in a molecular quantum dot magnet with ferromagnetic electrodes",
  T. Jonckheere, K.-I. Imura and T. Martin, Phys. Rev. B 78, 045316 (2008).
  
  
• "Quantum Hall effect in bilayer and multilayer graphene with finite Fermi energy",
  M. Nakamura, L. Hirasawa and K.-I. Imura, Phys. Rev. B 78, 033403 (2008).
  
  
• "Numerical study of transport through a single impurity in a spinful Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid",
  Y. Hamamoto, K.-I. Imura and T. Kato, Phys. Rev. B 77, 165402 (2008).
  
  
• "Full counting statistics for transport through a molecular quantum dot magnet",
  K.-I. Imura, Y. Utsumi, T. Martin, Phys. Rev. B 75, 205341 (2007).
  
  
• "Characterization of 2D fermionic insulating states",
  R. Shindou, K.-I. Imura and M. Ogata, Phys. Rev. B 74, 245107 (2006).
  
  
• "Electron-electron interactions in a one- dimensional quantum wire spin filter",
  P. Devillard, A. Crepieux, K.-I. Imura and T. Martin, Phys. Rev. B72, 041309(R) (2005).
  
  
• "Noncommutative geometry and nonabelian Berry phase in the wave-packet dynamics of Bloch electron",
  R. Shindou and K.-I. Imura, Nucl. Phys. B720, p.p. 399-435 (2005).
  
  
• "Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid with reservoirs in a multiterminal geometry",
  K.-V. Pham, F. Piéchon, K.-I. Imura and P. Lederer, Phys. Rev. B 68, 205110 (2003).
  
  
• "Conductance of one-dimensional quantum wires",
  K.-I. Imura, K.-V. Pham, P. Lederer and F. Piéchon, Phys. Rev. B 66, 035313 (2002).
  
  
• "Discrete thermodynamic Bethe ansatz",
  M. Bergère, K.-I. Imura and S. Ouvry, Nucl. Phys. B 608, p.p. 577-590 (2001).