JPS Hot Topics

Careful measurements were conducted on the hexagonal magnet GdGa₂ to reveal the experimental signatures of ultrasmall spin cycloids and of a potential Néel-type skyrmion lattice phase induced by a magnetic field.

The development of a high-power, low-noise ultraviolet laser facilitates fast Rydberg excitation of single ytterbium atoms, which is a fundamental step towards achieving high-fidelity two-qubit gates.

This study predicts the presence of spin-spin interactions mediated by the angular momentum of lattice vibrations, which can be long-range.

This special collection published in the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan celebrates 70 Years of Tanabe–Sugano Diagrams, highlighting their continued role in advancing materials with transition metals.

Interlayer spin–orbit coupling originating from the anion potential gives rise to a 3D Dirac semimetal state that preserves inversion symmetry in the multilayer organic massless Dirac fermion system α-(ET)₂I₃.

An extended version of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics integrated with a mean-field model is proposed, and its potential is demonstrated.

A new Special Topics edition of the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan features articles exploring special transition-metal compounds that exhibit novel charge-orbital states.

This study clarifies that the high mobility semimetal Ta₂PdSe₆ generates large Seebeck and Nernst effects at low temperatures, providing insight for exploring good thermoelectric materials for low-temperature applications.

A new method of acoustically driven resonance is proposed to unveil the multipole degrees of freedom of a crystal-field quartet and demonstrate the realization of spin acoustic control.

This study explores the magnetic behavior of rare-earth magnet EuPtSi using single-crystal neutron diffraction, potentially revealing magnetic skyrmion lattice formation.