Masahito Mochizuki

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Masahito Mochizuki is a professor at Waseda University in Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2003. His area of expertise is theoretical condensed-matter physics, and his research interests include strongly correlated electron systems, multiferroics, spintronics, topological magnetism, and photoinduced nonequilibrium phenomena. He is a member of the Physical Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and the Magnetics Society of Japan.


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Skyrmions as Active Matter

Pairs of skyrmions—tiny whirlpools that emerge in some magnetic materials—might be able to self-propel, a behavior reminiscent of that of active-matter systems such as motile bacteria. Read More »