Exploring Electrons with Exotic Properties

School of Science

Professor Mito Takeshi

The properties of many materials are determined by the state of the electrons they contain. One of the themes we have been intensively researching recently is Dirac electrons, which are considered to have zero mass and are expected to be applied in future low-power devices and quantum computers. Our research group was the first in the world to reveal, through nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments using superconducting magnets, that Dirac electrons emerge when black phosphorus, an allotrope of phosphorus, is pressurized.