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Takahiro Yamazaki

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Combinatorial Survey of Structural Phase Distribution and Magnetism in Fe-Ge-Te Composition-spread Thin Film Libraries

Recently, magnetic 2-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials have garnered tremendous attention. The vdW ferromagnet Fe5Ge1Te2 has a Curie temperature Tc of ~ 270 K, which is tailorable by tuning the stoichiometry and the Fe deficiency to reach room temperature. To explore the expanded compositional space, we implemented combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization to investigate the structural phase distribution and ferromagnetism of a Fe-Ge-Te thin film library. The library was prepared by magnetron co-sputtering followed by annealing in vacuum or in an inert environment. Composition and structural phase distribution of the 177 pads in the library were characterized using high-throughput wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and two-point probe resistance measurements. We leverage unsupervised machine learning to cluster the XRD dataset into groups of compositions with similar structural phases, and further study the ferromagnetic properties via SQUID magnetometry and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) across different clusters. The results are compared against magnetization and structural models calculated using DFT. Our results demonstrate that the hexagonal crystal structure is a critical prerequisite for ferromagnetism in this system, and that unexplored materials adopting this structure can be efficiently identified as possible ferromagnetic materials using our high-throughput, ML-assisted framework. This workflow based on the combinatorial strategy allows us to rapidly capture the composition-structure-magnetic property map across a broad compositional landscape of novel magnetic materials.

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Inverse-design of two-dimensional magnonic crystals via topology optimization with frequency-domain micromagnetics

Magnonic crystals (MCs) are emerging spintronic metamaterials capable of manipulating transmission properties of magnons, the quanta of spin waves. Due to the complex relationship between lattice geometry and magnonic band dispersion, it remains challenging to establish general design strategies for optimizing targeted properties in MCs. In this study, we demonstrated an inverse-design framework for two-dimensional MCs to explore unconventional lattice structures with large magnonic band gaps. We employed genetic algorithms to enable global exploration of structures with a complete band gap as the objective property, and used frequency-domain micromagnetic simulations for computationally efficient band gap evaluation. Our established inverse-design method successfully discovered several previously unreported designs of MCs, whose performance was validated using time-domain micromagnetic simulations. Furthermore, we observed that the design landscape becomes increasingly non-convex at high-order bands, suggesting the existence of multiple design solutions. The overall inverse-design framework is expected to be broadly applicable to experimentally accessible material systems and device dimensions, facilitating the formulation of design rules for MCs.

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Robot Local Planner: A Periodic Sampling-Based Motion Planner with Minimal Waypoints for Home Environments

The objective of this study is to enable fast and safe manipulation tasks in home environments. Specifically, we aim to develop a system that can recognize its surroundings and identify target objects while in motion, enabling it to plan and execute actions accordingly. We propose a periodic sampling-based whole-body trajectory planning method, called the "Robot Local Planner (RLP)." This method leverages unique features of home environments to enhance computational efficiency, motion optimality, and robustness against recognition and control errors, all while ensuring safety. The RLP minimizes computation time by planning with minimal waypoints and generating safe trajectories. Furthermore, overall motion optimality is improved by periodically executing trajectory planning to select more optimal motions. This approach incorporates inverse kinematics that are robust to base position errors, further enhancing robustness. Evaluation experiments demonstrated that the RLP outperformed existing methods in terms of motion planning time, motion duration, and robustness, confirming its effectiveness in home environments. Moreover, application experiments using a tidy-up task achieved high success rates and short operation times, thereby underscoring its practical feasibility.

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Constraint to chiral invariant masses of nucleons from GW170817 in an extended parity doublet model

We construct nuclear matter based on an extended parity doublet model including four light nucleons $N(939)$, $N(1440)$, $N(1535)$, and $N(1650)$. We exclude some values of the chiral invariant masses by requiring the saturation properties of normal nuclear matter; saturation density, binding energy, incompressibility, and symmetry energy. We find further constraint to the chiral invariant masses from the tidal deformability determined by the observation of the gravitational waves from neutron star merger GW170817. Our result shows that the chiral invariant masses are larger than about $600\,$MeV. We also give some predictions on the symmetry energy and the slope parameters in the high density region, which will be measured in future experiments.

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Chiral partner structure of light nucleons in an extended parity doublet model

We study chiral partner structure of four light nucleons, $N(939)$, $N(1440)$, $N(1535)$ and $N(1650)$ using an effective chiral model based on the parity doublet structure. In our model we introduce four chiral representations, $({\bf 1},{\bf 2})$, $({\bf 2},{\bf 1})$, $({\bf 2},{\bf 3})$ and $({\bf 3},{\bf 2})$ under ${\rm SU}(2)_{\rm L} \otimes {\rm SU}(2)_{\rm R}$ symmetry. We determine the model parameters by fitting them to available experimental values of masses, widths and the axial charge of $N(939)$ together with the axial charges of $N(1535)$ and $N(1650)$ by lattice analyses. We find five groups of solutions: In a group the chiral partner to $N(939)$ is $N(1440)$ having small chiral invariant mass. In another group, the chiral partner is a mixture of $N(1535)$ and $N(1650)$ having a large chiral invariant mass. We claim that off-diagonal elements of axial-charge matrix can be used for distinguishing these groups. We also discuss changes of masses associated with chiral symmetry restoration, which could emerge in high density matter.

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