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About me

I am Rintaro Masaoka (政岡凜太郎), a master's student in condensed matter theory and statistical physics. My research focuses on quantum phase transitions, with a particular interest in quantum critical phenomena characterized by nontrivial dynamical exponents.

Affiliation

Watanabe Group, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo.

Links

Google Scholar, arXiv, ORCID

Contact

masaokarintaro2115[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Education

Mar. 2024, Bachelor of Physics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo

Award

Excellent Presenter, Parallel Session (Statistical Physics Section), 69th Condensed Matter Physics Summer School

Grant

Oct. 2024- Research Assistantship, The Forefront Physics and Mathematics Program to Drive Transformation (FoPM)

Reserch topic

Non relativistic critical points

Conformal field theory (CFT) has been successful in describing universal aspects of critical phenomena. However, its applicability is largely restricted to Lorentz-invariant systems in $(d+1)$ dimensions or isotropic critical points in $d$-dimensional statistical models.

I'm interested in non-relativistic (or anisotropic) critical phenomena, which satisfy Lifshitz scale invariance:

where $z$ is called dynamical exponent.