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1. Clinical Study of Antibody Cocktail Therapy for COVID-19

Author

Kazuki YAMADA, Satoshi SUZUKI, Yoko TANINO, Keiko SUZUKI, Takaya ICHIKAWA, Masahide NAKAJIMA, Akihito TAMPO, Shin KUKITA, Shohei KURODA, Akito UEHARA, Hidemitsu SAKAGAMI, Yuuki NAGASHIMA, Ai NAKAMURA, Kae TAKAHASHI, Seisuke SAITO, Roku SATO, and Yasutaka KAKINOKI

Subjects
General Medicine
Published
2022

6. New 'iPARKO' finger extensor facilitation training device for chronic hemiplegic hand after stroke: development and verification of its effectiveness in healthy individuals

Author

Ai Nakamura, Zhou Peichen, Yoshifumi Morita, and Hirofumi Tanabe

Subjects
Control and Optimization, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, Instrumentation
Abstract

After stroke, hemiplegic individuals have difficulty opening their hands by themselves due to paralysis. A finger extensor facilitation technique was therefore developed to increase the activity of the extensor muscle in hemiplegic individuals who cannot open their paralyzed hands by themselves. In our previous study, we created a training device prototype called the “PARKO”, that imitates the finger extensor facilitation technique; however, the activity of the extensor muscle using the device was much smaller than that of the finger extensor facilitation technique. In this study, we developed a new finger extensor facilitation training device, the “iPARKO”, to increase the activity of the extensor muscle during active training. We thus improved the structure of the PARKO device—including a modified method to apply force to the fingertips—and attached force sensors to the device to monitor these forces. To verify the effectiveness of the iPARKO device, we conducted active training using the device in healthy individuals. Comparing the results of the muscle activities between the PARKO and iPARKO devices among three healthy participants demonstrated that the iPARKO device increased the mean activity of the extensor muscle by 43.8%. Furthermore, the activity of the extensor muscle in two healthy individuals while moving the hand forward with the iPARKO device was 84% and 96% of the maximal voluntary contraction during the hand-opening motion without the iPARKO device.

Published
2023

7. Impact of Antibody Cocktail Therapy Combined with Casirivimab and Imdevimab on Clinical Outcome for patients with COVID-19 in A Real-Life Setting: A Single Institute Analysis

Author

Yasutaka Kakinoki, Kazuki Yamada, Yoko Tanino, Keiko Suzuki, Takaya Ichikawa, Naoki Suzuki, Go Asari, Ai Nakamura, Shin Kukita, Akito Uehara, Seisuke Saito, Shohei Kuroda, Hidemitsu Sakagami, Yuuki Nagashima, Kae Takahashi, and Satoshi Suzuki

Subjects
Microbiology (medical), Infectious Diseases, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, General Medicine, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized, Pandemics, Retrospective Studies, COVID-19 Drug Treatment
Abstract

Recent data from clinical trials suggest that antibody cocktail therapy, which combined casirivimab and imdevimab, is linked to the reduction of the risk of hospitalization or death among high-risk patients with COVID-19. However, it remains unclear how effective the therapy is in a real-life clinical practice.We retrospectively analyzed patients with COVID-19 with high-risk factors who underwent the antibody cocktail therapy, compared with those who were not given the cocktail therapy while being isolated in nonmedical facilities during the same period.Data from 55 patients who received the antibody cocktail therapy and 53 patients with initial isolation in nonmedical facilities were analyzed. A total of 22 (41.5 %) of 53 patients staying in isolation facilities were eventually hospitalized and received medical interventions. By contrast, 13 (23.6 %) of 55 patients who received the antibody cocktail therapy subsequently underwent further medical interventions. In multivariate analysis, the antibody cocktail therapy significantly reduced the need for further medical interventions by 70 % compared with isolation (odds ratio=0.30, 95%CI [0.10-0.87], p=0.027). Patients with percutaneous oxygen saturation 96% or higher were significantly favoured for the therapy and had an advantage.The results of this study indicate that the antibody cocktail therapy is associated with reducing burden on hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published
2022

10. Magnetic Properties of Single Crystalline Tb5Sb3

Author

Aki Kitaori, Naoya Kanazawa, Takanori Kida, Yasuo Narumi, Masayuki Hagiwara, Koichi Kindo, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Ai Nakamura, Dai Aoki, Yoshinori Haga, Yoshio Kaneko, Yoshinori Tokura, and Yoshichika Ōnuki

Subjects
General Physics and Astronomy
Published
2023

11. Large Reduction in the $a$-axis Knight Shift on UTe$_2$ with $T_{\rm c}$ = 2.1 K

Author

Hiroki Matsumura, Hiroki Fujibayashi, Katsuki Kinjo, Shunsaku Kitagawa, Kenji Ishida, Yo Tokunaga, Hironori Sakai, Shinsaku Kambe, Ai Nakamura, Yusei Shimizu, Yoshiya Homma, Dexin Li, Fuminori Honda, and Dai Aoki

Subjects
Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el), Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences
Abstract

Spin susceptibility in the superconducting (SC) state was measured in the higher-quality sample of uranium-based superconductor UTe$_2$ by using Knight-shift measurements for a magnetic field $H$ along all three crystalline axes. In the higher-quality sample, the SC transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ is about 2.1 K, and the residual electronic term in the specific heat is almost zero. The NMR linewidth becomes narrower and is almost half of that in the previous sample with $T_{\rm c} \sim 1.6$ K when $H \parallel a$ and $c$. Although the Knight-shift behavior was not so different from the previous results for $H \parallel b$, and $c$, a large reduction in Knight shift along the $a$ axis was observed, in contrast with the previous $a$-axis Knight shift result. We discuss the origin of the difference between the previous and present results, and the possible SC state derived from the present results., Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, including supplemental materials

Published
2023
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13. New 'iPARKO' finger extensor facilitation training device for chronic hemiplegic hand after stroke: Development and verification of its effectiveness in healthy individuals

Author

Ai Nakamura, Zhou Peichen, Yoshifumi Morita, and Hirofumi Tanabe

Abstract

After stroke, hemiplegic individuals have difficulty opening their hands by themselves due to paralysis. A finger extensor facilitation technique was therefore developed to increase the activity of the extensor muscle in hemiplegic individuals who cannot open their paralyzed hands by themselves. In our previous study, we created a training device prototype called the "PARKO", that imitates the finger extensor facilitation technique; however, the activity of the extensor muscle using the device was much smaller than that of the finger extensor facilitation technique. In this study, we developed a new finger extensor facilitation training device, the "iPARKO", to increase the activity of the extensor muscle during active training. We thus improved the structure of the PARKO device—including a modified method to apply force to the fingertips—and attached force sensors to the device to monitor these forces. To verify the effectiveness of the iPARKO device, we conducted active training using the device in healthy individuals. Comparing the results of the muscle activities between the PARKO and iPARKO devices among three healthy subjects demonstrated that the iPARKO device increased the mean activity of the extensor muscle by 43.8%, and decreased the mean activity of the flexor muscle by 33.7% when compared with the PARKO device. Additionally, when the iPARKO device was used to apply force to the fingertips, the fingertip forces and normalized values for maximum voluntary contraction of the extensor muscle were revealed in two healthy subjects. In conclusion, the iPARKO device improved the accuracy of imitating manual therapy compared with the PARKO device.

Published
2022

16. Author response for 'Clinical significance of pre‐diabetes, undiagnosed diabetes, and diagnosed diabetes on clinical outcomes in COVID‐19: Integrative analysis from the Japan COVID‐19 Task Force'

Author

null Takahiro Fukushima, null Shotaro Chubachi, null Ho Namkoong, null Takanori Asakura, null Hiromu Tanaka, null Ho Lee, null Shuhei Azekawa, null Yukinori Okada, null Ryuji Koike, null Akinori Kimura, null Seiya Imoto, null Satoru Miyano, null Seishi Ogawa, null Takanori Kanai, null Koichi Fukunaga, null Shiro Otake, null Kensuke Nakagawara, null Atsuho Morita, null Mayuko Watase, null Kaori Sakurai, null Takuya Kusumoto, null Katsunori Masaki, null Hiroki Kabata, null Hirofumi Kamata, null Makoto Ishii, null Naoki Hasegawa, null Kazuhisa Takahashi, null Norihiro Harada, null Toshio Naito, null Makoto Hiki, null Yasushi Matsushita, null Haruhi Takagi, null Ryousuke Aoki, null Ai Nakamura, null Sonoko Harada, null Hitoshi Sasano, null Shinnosuke Ikemura, null Satoshi Okamori, null Hideki Terai, null Junichi Sasaki, null Hiroshi Morisaki, null Yoshifumi Uwamino, null Kosaku Nanki, null Yohei Mikami, null Sho Uchida, null Shunsuke Uno, null Rino Ishihara, null Yuta Matsubara, null Tomoyasu Nishimura, null Takunori Ogawa, null Toshiro Sato, null Tetsuya Ueda, null Masanori Azuma, null Ryuichi Saito, null Toshikatsu Sado, null Yoshimune Miyazaki, null Ryuichi Sato, null Yuki Haruta, null Tadao Nagasaki, null Yoshinori Yasui, null Yoshinori Hasegawa, null Soichiro Ueda, null Ai Tada, null Masayoshi Miyawaki, null Masaomi Yamamoto, null Eriko Yoshida, null Reina Hayashi, null Tomoki Nagasaka, null Sawako Arai, null Yutaro Kaneko, null Kana Sasaki, null Takashi Ishiguro, null Taisuke Isono, null Shun Shibata, null Yuma Matsui, null Chiaki Hosoda, null Kenji Takano, null Takashi Nishida, null Yoichi Kobayashi, null Yotaro Takaku, null Noboru Takayanagi, null Etsuko Tagaya, null Masatoshi Kawana, null Ken Arimura, null Yasushi Nakamori, null Kazuhisa Yoshiya, null Fukuki Saito, null Tomoyuki Yoshihara, null Daiki Wada, null Hiromu Iwamura, null Syuji Kanayama, null Shuhei Maruyama, null Takanori Hasegawa, null Kunihiko Takahashi, null Tatsuhiko Anzai, null Satoshi Ito, null Akifumi Endo, null Yuji Uchimura, null Yasunari Miyazaki, null Takayuki Honda, null Tomoya Tateishi, null Shuji Tohda, null Naoya Ichimura, null Kazunari Sonobe, null Chihiro Tani Sassa, null Jun Nakajima, null Masumi Ai, null Takashi Yoshiyama, null Ken Ohta, null Hiroyuki Kokuto, null Hideo Ogata, null Yoshiaki Tanaka, null Kenichi Arakawa, null Masafumi Shimoda, null Takeshi Osawa, null Yasushi Nakano, null Yukiko Nakajima, null Ryusuke Anan, null Ryosuke Arai, null Yuko Kurihara, null Yuko Harada, null Kazumi Nishio, null Yoshikazu Mutoh, null Tomonori Sato, null Reoto Takei, null Satoshi Hagimoto, null Yoichiro Noguchi, null Yasuhiko Yamano, null Hajime Sasano, null Sho Ota, null Yusuke Suzuki, null Sohei Nakayama, null Keita Masuzawa, null Tomomi Takano, null Kazuhiko Katayama, null Koji Murakami, null Mitsuhiro Yamada, null Hisatoshi Sugiura, null Hirohito Sano, null Shuichiro Matsumoto, null Nozomu Kimura, null Yoshinao Ono, null Hiroaki Baba, null Rie Baba, null Daisuke Arai, null Takayuki Ogura, null Hidenori Takahashi, null Shigehiro Hagiwara, null Genta Nagao, null Shunichiro Konishi, null Ichiro Nakachi, null Hiroki Tateno, null Isano Hase, null Shuichi Yoshida, null Shoji Suzuki, null Miki Kawada, null Hirohisa Horinouchi, null Fumitake Saito, null Keiko Mitamura, null Masao Hagihara, null Junichi Ochi, null Tomoyuki Uchida, null Ryuya Edahiro, null Yuya Shirai, null Kyuto Sonehara, null Tatsuhiko Naito, null Kenichi Yamamoto, null Shinichi Namba, null Ken Suzuki, null Takayuki Shiroyama, null Yuichi Maeda, null Takuro Nii, null Yoshimi Noda, null Takayuki Niitsu, null Yuichi Adachi, null Takatoshi Enomoto, null Saori Amiya, null Reina Hara, null Toshihiro Kishikawa, null Shuhei Yamada, null Shuhei Kawabata, null Noriyuki Kijima, null Masatoshi Takagaki, null Noa Sasa, null Yuya Ueno, null Motoyuki Suzuki, null Norihiko Takemoto, null Hirotaka Eguchi, null Takahito Fukusumi, null Takao Imai, null Munehisa Fukushima, null Haruhiko Kishima, null Hidenori Inohara, null Kazunori Tomono, null Kazuto Kato, null Haruhiko Hirata, null Yoshito Takeda, null Atsushi Kumanogoh, null Naoki Miyazawa, null Yasuhiro Kimura, null Reiko Sado, null Hideyasu Sugimoto, null Akane Kamiya, null Naota Kuwahara, null Akiko Fujiwara, null Tomohiro Matsunaga, null Yoko Sato, null Takenori Okada, null Takashi Inoue, null Toshiyuki Hirano, null Keigo Kobayashi, null Hatsuyo Takaoka, null Koichi Nishi, null Masaru Nishitsuji, null Mayuko Tani, null Junya Suzuki, null Hiroki Nakatsumi, null Hidefumi Koh, null Tadashi Manabe, null Yohei Funatsu, null Fumimaro Ito, null Takahiro Fukui, null Keisuke Shinozuka, null Sumiko Kohashi, null Masatoshi Miyazaki, null Tomohisa Shoko, null Mitsuaki Kojima, null Tomohiro Adachi, null Motonao Ishikawa, null Kenichiro Takahashi, null Kazuyoshi Watanabe, null Yoshihiro Hirai, null Hidetoshi Kawashima, null Atsuya Narita, null Kazuki Niwa, null Yoshiyuki Sekikawa, null Hisako Sageshima, null Yoshihiko Nakamura, null Kota Hoshino, null Junichi Maruyama, null Hiroyasu Ishikura, null Tohru Takata, null Takashi Ogura, null Hideya Kitamura, null Eri Hagiwara, null Kota Murohashi, null Hiroko Okabayashi, null Takao Mochimaru, null Shigenari Nukaga, null Ryosuke Satomi Yoshitaka Oyamada, null Nobuaki Mori, null Tomoya Baba, null Yasutaka Fukui, null Mitsuru Odate, null Shuko Mashimo, null Yasushi Makino, null Kazuma Yagi, null Mizuha Hashiguchi, null Junko Kagyo, null Tetsuya Shiomi, null Kodai Kawamura, null Kazuya Ichikado, null Kenta Nishiyama, null Hiroyuki Muranaka, null Kazunori Nakamura, null Satoshi Fuke, null Hiroshi Saito, null Tomoya Tsuchida, null Shigeki Fujitani, null Mumon Takita, null Daiki Morikawa, null Toru Yoshida, null Takehiro Izumo, null Minoru Inomata, null Naoyuki Kuse, null Nobuyasu Awano, null Mari Tone, null Akihiro Ito, null Toshio Odani, null Masaru Amishima, null Takeshi Hattori, null Yasuo Shichinohe, null Takashi Kagaya, null Toshiyuki Kita, null Kazuhide Ohta, null Satoru Sakagami, null Kiyoshi Koshida, null Morio Nakamura, null Koutaro Yokote, null Taka‐Aki Nakada, null Ryuzo Abe, null Taku Oshima, null Tadanaga Shimada, null Kentaro Hayashi, null Tetsuo Shimizu, null Yutaka Kozu, null Hisato Hiranuma, null Yasuhiro Gon, null Namiki Izumi, null Kaoru Nagata, null Ken Ueda, null Reiko Taki, null Satoko Hanada, null Naozumi Hashimoto, null Keiko Wakahara, null Koji Sakamoto, null Norihito Omote, null Akira Ando, null Yu Kusaka, null Takehiko Ohba, null Susumu Isogai, null Aki Ogawa, null Takuya Inoue, null Nobuhiro Kodama, null Yasunari Kaneyama, null Shunsuke Maeda, null Takashige Kuraki, null Takemasa Matsumoto, null Masahiro Harada, null Takeshi Takahashi, null Hiroshi Ono, null Toshihiro Sakurai, null Takayuki Shibusawa, null Yusuke Kawamura, null Akiyoshi Nakayama, null Hirotaka Matsuo, null Yoshifumi Kimizuka, null Akihiko Kawana, null Tomoya Sano, null Chie Watanabe, null Ryohei Suematsu, null Makoto Masuda, null Aya Wakabayashi, null Hiroki Watanabe, null Suguru Ueda, null Masanori Nishikawa Ayumi Yoshifuji, null Kazuto Ito, null Saeko Takahashi, null Kota Ishioka, null Yusuke Chihara, null Mayumi Takeuchi, null Keisuke Onoi, null Jun Shinozuka, null Atsushi Sueyoshi, null Yoji Nagasaki, null Masaki Okamoto, null Sayoko Ishihara, null Masatoshi Shimo, null Yoshihisa Tokunaga, null Masafumi Watanabe, null Sumito Inoue, null Akira Igarashi, null Masamichi Sato, null Nobuyuki Hizawa, null Yoshiaki Inoue, null Shigeru Chiba, null Kunihiro Yamagata, null Yuji Hiramatsu, null Hirayasu Kai, null Satoru Fukuyama, null Yoshihiro Eriguchi, null Akiko Yonekawa, null Keiko Kano, null Koichiro Matsumoto, null Kensuke Kanaoka, null Shoichi Ihara, null Kiyoshi Komuta, null Koichiro Asano, null Tsuyoshi Oguma, null Yoko Ito, null Satoru Hashimoto, null Masaki Yamasaki, null Yu Kasamatsu, null Yuko Komase, null Naoya Hida, null Takahiro Tsuburai, null Baku Oyama, null Yuichiro Kitagawa, null Tetsuya Fukuta, null Takahito Miyake, null Shozo Yoshida, null Shinji Ogura, null Minoru Takada, null Hidenori Kanda, null Shinji Abe, null Yuta Kono, null Yuki Togashi, null Hiroyuki Takoi, null Ryota Kikuchi, null Shinichi Ogawa, null Tomouki Ogata, null Shoichiro Ishihara, null Arihiko Kanehiro, null Shinji Ozaki, null Yasuko Fuchimoto, null Sae Wada, null Nobukazu Fujimoto, null Kei Nishiyama, null Mariko Terashima, null Satoru Beppu, null Kosuke Yoshida, null Osamu Narumoto, null Hideaki Nagai, null Nobuharu Ooshima, null Mitsuru Motegi, null Akira Umeda, null Kazuya Miyagawa, null Hisato Shimada, null Mayu Endo, null Yoshiyuki Ohira, null Hironori Sagara, null Akihiko Tanaka, null Shin Ohta, null Tomoyuki Kimura, null Yoko Shibata, null Yoshinori Tanino, null Takefumi Nikaido, null Hiroyuki Minemura, null Yuki Sato, null Yuichiro Yamada, null Takuya Hashino, null Masato Shinoki, null Hajime Iwagoe, null Hiroshi Takahashi, null Kazuhiko Fujii, null Hiroto Kishi, null Tomoo Ishii, null Masayuki Kanai, null Tomonori Imamura, null Tatsuya Yamashita, null Masakiyo Yatomi, null Toshitaka Maeno, null Shinichi Hayashi, null Mai Takahashi, null Mizuki Kuramochi, null Isamu Kamimaki, null Yoshiteru Tominaga, null Mitsuyoshi Utsugi, null Akihiro Ono, null Toru Tanaka, null Takeru Kashiwada, null Kazue Fujita, null Yoshinobu Saito, null Masahiro Seike, null Masahiro Kanai, null Ryunosuke Saiki, null Takayoshi Hyugaji, null Eigo Shimizu, null Kotoe Katayama, null Satoru Miyawaki, null Meiko Takahashi, null Fumihiko Matsuda, null Yosuke Omae, null Yasuhito Nannya, null Takafumi Ueno, null Yuko Kitagawa, null Katsushi Tokunaga, and null The Japan COVID‐19 Task Force

Published
2022

17. Relationship between Metacarpophalangeal Joint Angle and Muscle Activity of Healthy Persons while Using the Finger Extensor Facilitation Training Device 'iPARKO'

Author

Ai, Nakamura, Shota, Ishigaki, Yoshifumi, Morita, and Hirofumi, Tanabe

Subjects
Fingers, Metacarpophalangeal Joint, Finger Joint, Humans, Hand, Muscle, Skeletal
Abstract

Applying an external force to a person's hyperextended fingertip produces electrical activity in the extensor digitorum communis, even if the person does not try to open their hand. Based on this, a finger extensor facilitation technique conducted by therapists was developed. In this study, we developed a finger extensor facilitation training device named iPARKO that imitates this technique. We examined the relationship between the metacarpophalangeal (MP) joint angle of the four fingers and the activities in the extensor digitorum communis resulting from active training using iPARKO. At the same time, the relationship between the MP joint angle and the reduced activities in the flexor digitorum superficialis was also examined. The experiments were conducted on five healthy subjects. It was found that as the MP joint approached its own maximum hyperextension position, the amount of activity of the extensor digitorum communis increased, and the amount of activity of the flexor digitorum superficialis decreased.

Published
2022

22. Quasi-one-dimensional magnetic interactions and conduction electrons in EuCu5 and EuAu5 with the characteristic hexagonal structure

Author

Shinya Matsuda, Kenri Nakaima, Jun Gouchi, Jouji Ota, Masato Hedo, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Yoshinori Haga, Wataru Iha, Dai Aoki, T. Takeuchi, Hisatomo Harima, Takao Nakama, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Ai Nakamura, Miho Nakashima, Yasushi Amako, and Fuminori Honda

Subjects
010302 applied physics, Materials science, Condensed matter physics, Hexagonal crystal system, Bridgman method, Structure (category theory), 02 engineering and technology, Electron, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Thermal conduction, 01 natural sciences, Ferromagnetism, 0103 physical sciences, Curie, Quasi one dimensional, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract

We have succeed in growing single crystals of EuCu5 and EuAu5 with the hexagonal structure by the Bridgman method. Both compounds are known to be ferromagnets with Curie temperatures TC=57 ...

Published
2020

23. Slow Electronic Dynamics in the Paramagnetic State of UTe$_2$

Author

Yo Tokunaga, Hironori Sakai, Shinsaku Kambe, Yoshinori Haga, Yoshifumi Tokiwa, Petr Opletal, Hiroki Fujibayashi, Katsuki Kinjo, Shunsaku Kitagawa, Kenji Ishida, Ai Nakamura, Yusei Shimizu, Yoshiya Homma, Dexin Li, Fuminori Honda, Dai Aoki, Japan Atomic Energy Agency [Ibaraki] (JAEA), Kyoto University, Institute for Materials Research [Sendai] (IMR), Tohoku University [Sendai], Instrumentation, Material and Correlated Electrons Physics (IMAPEC), PHotonique, ELectronique et Ingénierie QuantiqueS (PHELIQS), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Subjects
[PHYS]Physics [physics], Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el), Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract

$^{125}$Te NMR experiments in field ($H$) applied along the easy magnetization axis (the $a$-axis) revealed slow electronic dynamics developing in the paramagnetic state of UTe$_2$. The observed slow fluctuations are concerned with a successive growth of long-range electronic correlations below 30$-$40 K, where the spin susceptibility along the hard magnetization axis (the $b$-axis) shows a broad maximum. The experiments also imply that tiny amounts of disorder or defects locally disturb the long-range electronic correlations and develop an inhomogeneous electronic state at low temperatures, leading to a low temperature upturn observed in the bulk-susceptibility in $H\|a$. We suggest that UTe$_2$ would be located on the paramagnetic side near an electronic phase boundary, where either magnetic or Fermi-surface instability would be the origin of the characteristic fluctuations., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn

Published
2022
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24. Anisotropic field response of specific heat for a ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe in magnetic fields

Author

Shota Nakamura, Shunichiro Kittaka, Kazushige Machida, Yusei Shimizu, Ai Nakamura, Dai Aoki, and Toshiro Sakakibara

Subjects
Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, FOS: Physical sciences
Abstract

Magnetic-field-angle-resolved specific heat and magnetization measurements were conducted on a ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe with remarkable anisotropic upper critical field $H_{\rm c2}$. Although $H_{\rm c2}$ reaches a high magnetic field ($\sim 20$~T) along the $b$ axis, it is small ($\sim~0.6$~T) when a magnetic field is applied along the magnetic easy $c$-axis. This study indicates that the specific heat is abruptly suppressed when the magnetic field is applied toward the $c$ axis from the $a$ and $b$ axes in the ferromagnetic state. The field response of density of states (DOS) is anisotropic, relative to the $c$ axis, and its angle dependence is slightly singular. The Ising-type magnetic anisotropy of the ferromagnetic state is dominant even in the anisotropic reinforced superconducting state. These facts indicate that the suppression of DOS may closely relate to the superconducting state. We theoretically analyze these findings together with URhGe and UTe$_2$ by highlighting the common and distinctive features among three compounds., Comment: This paper is accepted in Phys. Rev. B

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2022
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26. The whole blood transcriptional regulation landscape in 465 COVID-19 infected samples from Japan COVID-19 Task Force

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Qingbo S. Wang, Ryuya Edahiro, Ho Namkoong, Takanori Hasegawa, Yuya Shirai, Kyuto Sonehara, Hiromu Tanaka, Ho Lee, Ryunosuke Saiki, Takayoshi Hyugaji, Eigo Shimizu, Kotoe Katayama, Masahiro Kanai, Tatsuhiko Naito, Noah Sasa, Kenichi Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Kato, Takayoshi Morita, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Norihiro Harada, Toshio Naito, Makoto Hiki, Yasushi Matsushita, Haruhi Takagi, Masako Ichikawa, Ai Nakamura, Sonoko Harada, Yuuki Sandhu, Hiroki Kabata, Katsunori Masaki, Hirofumi Kamata, Shinnosuke Ikemura, Shotaro Chubachi, Satoshi Okamori, Hideki Terai, Atsuho Morita, Takanori Asakura, Junichi Sasaki, Hiroshi Morisaki, Yoshifumi Uwamino, Kosaku Nanki, Sho Uchida, Shunsuke Uno, Tomoyasu Nishimura, Takashri Ishiguro, Taisuke Isono, Shun Shibata, Yuma Matsui, Chiaki Hosoda, Kenji Takano, Takashi Nishida, Yoichi Kobayashi, Yotaro Takaku, Noboru Takayanagi, Soichiro Ueda, Ai Tada, Masayoshi Miyawaki, Masaomi Yamamoto, Eriko Yoshida, Reina Hayashi, Tomoki Nagasaka, Sawako Arai, Yutaro Kaneko, Kana Sasaki, Etsuko Tagaya, Masatoshi Kawana, Ken Arimura, Kunihiko Takahashi, Tatsuhiko Anzai, Satoshi Ito, Akifumi Endo, Yuji Uchimura, Yasunari Miyazaki, Takayuki Honda, Tomoya Tateishi, Shuji Tohda, Naoya Ichimura, Kazunari Sonobe, Chihiro Tani Sassa, Jun Nakajima, Yasushi Nakano, Yukiko Nakajima, Ryusuke Anan, Ryosuke Arai, Yuko Kurihara, Yuko Harada, Kazumi Nishio, Tetsuya Ueda, Masanori Azuma, Ryuichi Saito, Toshikatsu Sado, Yoshimune Miyazaki, Ryuichi Sato, Yuki Haruta, Tadao Nagasaki, Yoshinori Yasui, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Yoshikazu Mutoh, Tomoki Kimura, Tomonori Sato, Reoto Takei, Satoshi Hagimoto, Yoichiro Noguchi, Yasuhiko Yamano, Hajime Sasano, Sho Ota, Yasushi Nakamori, Kazuhisa Yoshiya, Fukuki Saito, Tomoyuki Yoshihara, Daiki Wada, Hiromu Iwamura, Syuji Kanayama, Shuhei Maruyama, Takashi Yoshiyama, Ken Ohta, Hiroyuki Kokuto, Hideo Ogata, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Kenichi Arakawa, Masafumi Shimoda, Takeshi Osawa, Hiroki Tateno, Isano Hase, Shuichi Yoshida, Shoji Suzuki, Miki Kawada, Hirohisa Horinouchi, Fumitake Saito, Keiko Mitamura, Masao Hagihara, Junichi Ochi, Tomoyuki Uchida, Rie Baba, Daisuke Arai, Takayuki Ogura, Hidenori Takahashi, Shigehiro Hagiwara, Genta Nagao, Shunichiro Konishi, Ichiro Nakachi, Koji Murakami, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Hisatoshi Sugiura, Hirohito Sano, Shuichiro Matsumoto, Nozomu Kimura, Yoshinao Ono, Hiroaki Baba, Yusuke Suzuki, Sohei Nakayama, Keita Masuzawa, Shinichi Namba, Takayuki Shiroyama, Yoshimi Noda, Takayuki Niitsu, Yuichi Adachi, Takatoshi Enomoto, Saori Amiya, Reina Hara, Yuta Yamaguchi, Teruaki Murakami, Tomoki Kuge, Kinnosuke Matsumoto, Yuji Yamamoto, Makoto Yamamoto, Midori Yoneda, Kazunori Tomono, Kazuto Kato, Haruhiko Hirata, Yoshito Takeda, Hidefumi Koh, Tadashi Manabe, Yohei Funatsu, Fumimaro Ito, Takahiro Fukui, Keisuke Shinozuka, Sumiko Kohashi, Masatoshi Miyazaki, Tomohisa Shoko, Mitsuaki Kojima, Tomohiro Adachi, Motonao Ishikawa, Kenichiro Takahashi, Takashi Inoue, Toshiyuki Hirano, Keigo Kobayashi, Hatsuyo Takaoka, Kazuyoshi Watanabe, Naoki Miyazawa, Yasuhiro Kimura, Reiko Sado, Hideyasu Sugimoto, Akane Kamiya, Naota Kuwahara, Akiko Fujiwara, Tomohiro Matsunaga, Yoko Sato, Takenori Okada, Yoshihiro Hirai, Hidetoshi Kawashima, Atsuya Narita, Kazuki Niwa, Yoshiyuki Sekikawa, Koichi Nishi, Masaru Nishitsuji, Mayuko Tani, Junya Suzuki, Hiroki Nakatsumi, Takashi Ogura, Hideya Kitamura, Eri Hagiwara, Kota Murohashi, Hiroko Okabayashi, Takao Mochimaru, Shigenari Nukaga, Ryosuke Satomi, Yoshitaka Oyamada, Nobuaki Mori, Tomoya Baba, Yasutaka Fukui, Mitsuru Odate, Shuko Mashimo, Yasushi Makino, Kazuma Yagi, Mizuha Hashiguchi, Junko Kagyo, Tetsuya Shiomi, Satoshi Fuke, Hiroshi Saito, Tomoya Tsuchida, Shigeki Fujitani, Mumon Takita, Daiki Morikawa, Toru Yoshida, Takehiro Izumo, Minoru Inomata, Naoyuki Kuse, Nobuyasu Awano, Mari Tone, Akihiro Ito, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Kota Hoshino, Junichi Maruyama, Hiroyasu Ishikura, Tohru Takata, Toshio Odani, Masaru Amishima, Takeshi Hattori, Yasuo Shichinohe, Takashi Kagaya, Toshiyuki Kita, Kazuhide Ohta, Satoru Sakagami, Kiyoshi Koshida, Kentaro Hayashi, Tetsuo Shimizu, Yutaka Kozu, Hisato Hiranuma, Yasuhiro Gon, Namiki Izumi, Kaoru Nagata, Ken Ueda, Reiko Taki, Satoko Hanada, Kodai Kawamura, Kazuya Ichikado, Kenta Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Muranaka, Kazunori Nakamura, Naozumi Hashimoto, Keiko Wakahara, Sakamoto Koji, Norihito Omote, Akira Ando, Nobuhiro Kodama, Yasunari Kaneyama, Shunsuke Maeda, Takashige Kuraki, Takemasa Matsumoto, Koutaro Yokote, Taka-Aki Nakada, Ryuzo Abe, Taku Oshima, Tadanaga Shimada, Masahiro Harada, Takeshi Takahashi, Hiroshi Ono, Toshihiro Sakurai, Takayuki Shibusawa, Yoshifumi Kimizuka, Akihiko Kawana, Tomoya Sano, Chie Watanabe, Ryohei Suematsu, Hisako Sageshima, Ayumi Yoshifuji, Kazuto Ito, Saeko Takahashi, Kota Ishioka, Morio Nakamura, Makoto Masuda, Aya Wakabayashi, Hiroki Watanabe, Suguru Ueda, Masanori Nishikawa, Yusuke Chihara, Mayumi Takeuchi, Keisuke Onoi, Jun Shinozuka, Atsushi Sueyoshi, Yoji Nagasaki, Masaki Okamoto, Sayoko Ishihara, Masatoshi Shimo, Yoshihisa Tokunaga, Yu Kusaka, Takehiko Ohba, Susumu Isogai, Aki Ogawa, Takuya Inoue, Satoru Fukuyama, Yoshihiro Eriguchi, Akiko Yonekawa, Keiko Kan-o, Koichiro Matsumoto, Kensuke Kanaoka, Shoichi Ihara, Kiyoshi Komuta, Yoshiaki Inoue, Shigeru Chiba, Kunihiro Yamagata, Yuji Hiramatsu, Hirayasu Kai, Koichiro Asano, Tsuyoshi Oguma, Yoko Ito, Satoru Hashimoto, Masaki Yamasaki, Yu Kasamatsu, Yuko Komase, Naoya Hida, Takahiro Tsuburai, Baku Oyama, Minoru Takada, Hidenori Kanda, Yuichiro Kitagawa, Tetsuya Fukuta, Takahito Miyake, Shozo Yoshida, Shinji Ogura, Shinji Abe, Yuta Kono, Yuki Togashi, Hiroyuki Takoi, Ryota Kikuchi, Shinichi Ogawa, Tomouki Ogata, Shoichiro Ishihara, Arihiko Kanehiro, Shinji Ozaki, Yasuko Fuchimoto, Sae Wada, Nobukazu Fujimoto, Kei Nishiyama, Mariko Terashima, Satoru Beppu, Kosuke Yoshida, Osamu Narumoto, Hideaki Nagai, Nobuharu Ooshima, Mitsuru Motegi, Akira Umeda, Kazuya Miyagawa, Hisato Shimada, Mayu Endo, Yoshiyuki Ohira, Masafumi Watanabe, Sumito Inoue, Akira Igarashi, Masamichi Sato, Hironori Sagara, Akihiko Tanaka, Shin Ohta, Tomoyuki Kimura, Yoko Shibata, Yoshinori Tanino, Takefumi Nikaido, Hiroyuki Minemura, Yuki Sato, Yuichiro Yamada, Takuya Hashino, Masato Shinoki, Hajime Iwagoe, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kazuhiko Fujii, Hiroto Kishi, Masayuki Kanai, Tomonori Imamura, Tatsuya Yamashita, Masakiyo Yatomi, Toshitaka Maeno, Shinichi Hayashi, Mai Takahashi, Mizuki Kuramochi, Isamu Kamimaki, Yoshiteru Tominaga, Tomoo Ishii, Mitsuyoshi Utsugi, Akihiro Ono, Toru Tanaka, Takeru Kashiwada, Kazue Fujita, Yoshinobu Saito, Masahiro Seike, Hiroko Watanabe, Hiroto Matsuse, Norio Kodaka, Chihiro Nakano, Takeshi Oshio, Takatomo Hirouchi, Shohei Makino, Moritoki Egi, Yosuke Omae, Yasuhito Nannya, Takafumi Ueno, Tomomi Takano, Kazuhiko Katayama, Masumi Ai, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Toshiro Sato, Naoki Hasegawa, Katsushi Tokunaga, Makoto Ishii, Ryuji Koike, Yuko Kitagawa, Akinori Kimura, Seiya Imoto, Satoru Miyano, Seishi Ogawa, Takanori Kanai, Koichi Fukunaga, and Yukinori Okada

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Multidisciplinary, Membrane Glycoproteins, Quantitative Trait Loci, General Physics and Astronomy, COVID-19, General Chemistry, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Japan, Viral infection, Humans, Lectins, C-Type, Gene expression, Receptors, Immunologic, Transcriptomics, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a recently-emerged infectious disease that has caused millions of deaths, where comprehensive understanding of disease mechanisms is still unestablished. In particular, studies of gene expression dynamics and regulation landscape in COVID-19 infected individuals are limited. Here, we report on a thorough analysis of whole blood RNA-seq data from 465 genotyped samples from the Japan COVID-19 Task Force, including 359 severe and 106 non-severe COVID-19 cases. We discover 1169 putative causal expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) including 34 possible colocalizations with biobank fine-mapping results of hematopoietic traits in a Japanese population, 1549 putative causal splice QTLs (sQTLs; e.g. two independent sQTLs at TOR1AIP1), as well as biologically interpretable trans-eQTL examples (e.g., REST and STING1), all fine-mapped at single variant resolution. We perform differential gene expression analysis to elucidate 198 genes with increased expression in severe COVID-19 cases and enriched for innate immune-related functions. Finally, we evaluate the limited but non-zero effect of COVID-19 phenotype on eQTL discovery, and highlight the presence of COVID-19 severity-interaction eQTLs (ieQTLs; e.g., CLEC4C and MYBL2). Our study provides a comprehensive catalog of whole blood regulatory variants in Japanese, as well as a reference for transcriptional landscapes in response to COVID-19 infection., 「コロナ制圧タスクフォース」COVID-19患者由来の血液細胞における遺伝子発現の網羅的解析 --重症度に応じた遺伝子発現の変化には、ヒトゲノム配列の個人差が影響する--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-08-23.

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2021

27. [Dust collection efficiency of commercial gas collection tubes]

Author

Yuto Umehara, Tsutoshi Imanaka, Masami Furuuchi, Mitsuhiko Hata, Ichiro Higashikubo, Ai Nakamura, Masashi Takao, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Masahiko Yamazaki, Muhhamad Amin, and Pisith Sok

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Aerosols, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Analytical chemistry, Dust, General Medicine, Particulates, Toxicology, law.invention, Aerosol, Adsorption, Coal, law, medicine, Particle, Environmental science, Humans, Particle size, Gases, Particle Size, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Filtration, Air filter, Activated carbon, medicine.drug, Environmental Monitoring
Abstract

OBJECTIVES Gas sampling tubes are essential tools for the evaluation of air quality in work environments. It adsorbs toxic gaseous matters onto the surface of various granular adsorbents, such as silica gel or activated carbon packed in a thin glass tube, for quantitative analysis by gas chromatography. Currently, most of the semi-volatile matters are evaluated via aerosol filtration or solid-phase gas adsorption depending on the main phase of the substances; however, only a few substances have a sampling protocol regarding both solid and gaseous phases. Therefore, semi-volatile components evaluated by the solid-phase adsorption may result in the underestimation of the component concentrations due to particulate components passing through and remaining in the adsorbent. To highlight issues on sampling of semi-volatile matters by the solid-phase adsorption method, the collection efficiency of aerosol particles by 17 commercial gas sampling tubes were measured via pressure drop. METHODS To measure the particle collection efficiency of the gas collection tubes, precise control and dilution of the aerosol particle monitors are essential. However, we cannot apply typical filter test methods at a lower filtration flow rate than that of the aerosol particles monitors. Therefore, we developed a new experimental method that considers flow adjustment between the aerosol monitors. By assuming two specific particle size distributions and five inlet conditions, the collection efficiencies of total mass particles are estimated. From the gas-particle partitioning ratio of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a coal tar pitch manufacturing industry, the underestimation of the concentration of semi-volatile matters using the gas collection tubes has been discussed. RESULTS The aerosol particles were collected in all kinds of layers in the gas sampling tubes, such as in the glass wool cap, gas adsorbent granular bed, and polyurethane foam. Furthermore, the collection efficiency curve of all 17 gas sampling tubes tested showed similar trends; a valley around particle sizes ranging from 0.2-0.3 μm between high collection zones below 0.1 μm and above 1 μm was observed. The observations suggested granular bed filters collection mechanisms such as inertial impaction, Brownian diffusion, gravity, and interception as same as air filters. CONCLUSIONS Solid-phase collection can underestimate the concentrations of multi-phase matters. Thus, we wish to highlight the importance of solid-phase collection methods along with filtration collection methods to collect all phases of semi-volatile matters.

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2021

29. Impact of Antibody Cocktail Therapy Combined with Casirivimab and Imdevimab on Clinical Outcome for Covid-19 patients in A Real-Life Setting: A Single Institute Analysis

Author

Akito Uehara, Kazuki Yamada, Yuuki Nagashima, Go Asari, Naoki Suzuki, Keiko Suzuki, Ai Nakamura, Yasutaka Kakinoki, Yoko Tanino, Seisuke Saito, Hidemitsu Sakagami, Kae Takahashi, Shin Kukita, Satoshi Suzuki, Takaya Ichikawa, and Shohei Kuroda

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Multivariate analysis, Isolation (health care), biology, business.industry, Psychological intervention, Disease, Odds ratio, Clinical trial, Internal medicine, medicine, biology.protein, Antibody, business, Viral load
Abstract

BackgroundRecent data from clinical trial suggest that antibody cocktail therapy, a combination of the monoclonal antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab, has been shown to rapidly reduce the viral load and markedly decrease the risk of hospitalization or death among high-risk patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). However, it remains unclear how effective in a real-life clinical setting the therapy is.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed mild to moderate Covid-19 patients with one or more high-risk factors for severe disease who consecutively underwent the antibody cocktail therapy of the disease in our institute in June 2021 through early September 2021, compared to those with high-risk factors who were isolated in non-medical facilities consecutively during the same period, thereby being not given the antibody cocktail therapy there. The key outcome was the percentage of patients with Covid-19-related deterioration which needed additional medical interventions, such as oxygen support or other antiviral therapies.ResultsData from 55 patients with initially receiving antibody cocktail therapy and 53 patients with isolation into non-medical facilities are analyzed. 22 (41.5 %) of 53 patients with isolation facilities were finally hospitalized to receive medical interventions. On the other hand, 13 (23.6 %) of 55 patients with antibody cocktail therapy in our hospital subsequently underwent further medical interventions because of the progression. In multivariate analysis with variables of age, BMI, and high-risk factors, the antibody cocktail therapy significantly reduced 70 % in the need for further medical interventions compared to the initial isolation in the non-medical facilities (odds ratio=0.30, 95%CI [0.10-0.87], p=0.027). Furthermore, patients with 96% or above of SPO2 were significantly more favorable for the therapy than those with 95% or below of SPO2.ConclusionThe treatment of antibody cocktail was closely linked to reduction in the need for further medical interventions. The result indicates that the antibody cocktail therapy is associated with reducing the strain on hospitals, which is related to the improvement of medical management for public health care in Covid-19 pandemic era.

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2021

30. Critical slowing-down and field-dependent paramagnetic fluctuations in the skyrmion host EuPtSi: μSR and NMR studies

Author

Yoshiya Homma, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Yasuo Shimizu, Masashi Kakihana, T. Hattori, Wataru Higemoto, Dai Aoki, Fuminori Honda, Takao Nakama, Ai Nakamura, Miho Nakashima, N. Higa, Yo Tokunaga, Takashi U. Ito, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, Masato Hedo, Mamoru Yogi, and Zurab Guguchia

Subjects
Physics, Paramagnetism, Condensed matter physics, Skyrmion, media_common.quotation_subject, Relaxation (NMR), Lattice (group), Frustration, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Muon spin spectroscopy, Spin-½, Magnetic field, media_common
Abstract

We report the results of muon spin relaxation ($\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{SR}$) and $^{29}\mathrm{Si}$ NMR measurements carried out on the cubic chiral magnet EuPtSi. This compound exhibits a helimagnetic transition at ${T}_{\mathrm{N}}=4$ K, and hosts a unique skyrmion phase characterized by a short modulation period and strong anisotropy under magnetic fields. Our zero-field $\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{SR}$ experiments revealed the development of critical slowing down of Eu spin fluctuations over a relatively wide critical region $(T\ensuremath{-}{T}_{\mathrm{N}})/{T}_{\mathrm{N}}l5$ above ${T}_{\mathrm{N}}$. We also found from $^{29}\mathrm{Si}$ NMR that the spin fluctuations are strongly suppressed by magnetic field in the paramagnetic state above 20 K. These characteristic spin dynamics observed over a wide region of temperature and magnetic field suggest the presence of magnetic frustration in the spin system. Such frustration would underlie the mechanism stabilizing the short-period skyrmion lattice observed in this compound.

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2021

32. Japan COVID-19 Task Force: a nation-wide consortium to elucidate host genetics of COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

Author

Shuichi Yoshida, Yoshihiro Hirai, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Sekikawa, Saeko Takahashi, Yoshitaka Oyamada, Shunsuke Uno, Koutaro Yokote, Kunihiko Takahashi, Shigenari Nukaga, Yoshinao Ono, Shoichiro Ishihara, Nozomu Kimura, Tomohiro Adachi, Shigeki Fujitani, Eri Hagiwara, Motoyuki Suzuki, Tomouki Ogata, Namiki Izumi, Shinji Abe, Etsuko Tagaya, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Yoshimune Miyazaki, Junichi Sasaki, Yoshinori Tanino, Seishi Ogawa, Yuki Togashi, Satoshi Fuke, Yoshiaki Inoue, Hideo Ogata, Masaomi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Shinozuka, Sho Uchida, Masayoshi Miyawaki, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Koichiro Matsumoto, Yuko Kitagawa, Mayu Endo, Mitsuru Odate, Hiroki Tateno, Fumitake Saito, Mizuki Kuramochi, Shoji Suzuki, Koji Murakami, Kenichi Arakawa, Shozo Yoshida, Hitoshi Sasano, Keigo Kobayashi, Takuro Nii, Takashi Ishiguro, Ryuichi Saito, Yohei Mikami, Takashi Inoue, Haruhiko Kishima, Daisuke Arai, Takao Mochimaru, Minoru Takada, Yuya Ueno, Takehiro Izumo, Reina Hara, Nobuyuki Hizawa, Atsuho Morita, Takanori Hasegawa, Masahiro Seike, Hisako Sageshima, Takeshi Hattori, Shinichi Namba, Shuko Mashimo, Tomoya Tsuchida, Hiromu Tanaka, Naoki Miyazawa, Masatoshi Kawana, Shunichiro Konishi, Takatoshi Enomoto, Takuya Hashino, Hiroki Watanabe, Kentaro Hayashi, Sumito Inoue, Satoshi Hagimoto, Toru Yoshida, Akiko Fujiwara, Masaki Okamoto, Hiroki Kabata, Shuji Tohda, Baku Oyama, Norihiko Takemoto, Nobuyasu Awano, Makoto Hiki, Yasutaka Fukui, Takahiro Fukui, Keisuke Onoi, Yuichiro Yamada, Takayuki Shiroyama, Mayuko Tani, Hiroyuki Muranaka, Kazuhide Ohta, Yoshifumi Kimizuka, Hajime Iwagoe, Yasuko Fuchimo, Hiroki Nakatsumi, Hiroyuki Minemura, Hisatoshi Sugiura, Haruhi Takagi, Hiroyuki Kokuto, Yasuhiro Kimura, Masatoshi Takagaki, Yuki Sato, Masao Hagihara, Junko Kagyo, Yusuke Kawamura, Sayoko Ishihara, Akinori Kimura, Aki Ogawa, Hironori Sagara, Noa Sasa, Masahiro Kanai, Isano Hase, Takenori Okada, Akiyoshi Nakayama, Osamu Narumoto, Norihito Omote, Kazunori Tomono, Toshiro Sato, Hatsuyo Takaoka, Mayumi Takeuchi, Keiko Kan-o, Satoshi Okamori, Yukinori Okada, Yoshito Takeda, Kazuto Ito, Tatsuhiko Naito, Reina Hayashi, Toshikatsu Sado, Kazuya Ichikado, Yasushi Matsushita, Nobuaki Mori, Takashi Nishida, Toshitaka Maeno, Tomomi Takano, Soichiro Ueda, Tomoyasu Nishimura, Masaru Nishitsuji, Ryusuke Anan, Arihiko Kanehiro, Akira Umeda, Syuji Kanayama, Yosuke Omae, Tomoki Nagasaka, Koichi Nishi, Yoshiyuki Ohira, Fumimaro Ito, Toru Tanaka, Kenichiro Takahashi, Hidenori Kanda, Hidenori Inohara, Kaoru Nagata, Kei Nishiyama, Masafumi Watanabe, Katsunori Masaki, Ryuzo Abe, Hirofumi Kamata, Masahiro Harada, Chihiro Tani Sassa, Tomoya Sano, Shoichi Ihara, Tadashi Manabe, Takafumi Ueno, Takahito Fukusumi, Meiko Takahashi, Kyuto Sonehara, Kana Sasaki, Hiroyuki Takoi, Chie Watanabe, Takahiro Tsuburai, Tomonori Sato, Yoichi Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Yasushi Nakano, Kenichi Yamamoto, Takayoshi Hyugaji, Hirohito Sano, Ho Namkoong, Atsushi Sueyoshi, Naoya Ichimura, Yoshiteru Tominaga, Masaru Amishima, Ken Suzuki, Ken Ohta, Shigehiro Hagiwara, Masayuki Kanai, Kota Hoshino, Shuhei Kawabata, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Toshio Naito, Akihiro Ono, Yotaro Takaku, Yoko Sato, Satoru Miyano, Junichi Ochi, Yoshikazu Mutoh, Hiroaki Baba, Yoko Shibata, Tatsuya Yamashita, Yoko Ito, Hiromu Iwamura, Munehisa Fukushima, Saori Amiya, Takayuki Honda, Yuta Kono, Susumu Isogai, Ryuya Edahiro, Makoto Masuda, Hisato Shimada, Hideaki Nagai, Tomoya Baba, Fukuki Saito, Toshihiro Sakurai, Ryota Kikuchi, Yoichiro Noguchi, Tatsuhiko Anzai, Mizuha Hashiguchi, Masamichi Sato, Naoki Hasegawa, Yasunari Miyazaki, Tetsuya Ueda, Yasuhiko Yamano, Shinji Ozaki, Yoshinobu Saito, Takuya Inoue, Sohei Nakayama, Sawako Arai, Yu Kusaka, Miki Kawada, Yuko Kurihara, Daiki Wada, Isamu Kamimaki, Motonao Ishikawa, Sumiko Kohashi, Sae Wada, Kazuma Yagi, Rino Ishihara, Hiroko Okabayashi, Nobuhiro Kodama, Mai Takahashi, Kiyoshi Komuta, Yusuke Chihara, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Akifumi Endo, Shuichiro Matsumoto, Akira Igarashi, Shuhei Yamada, Akiko Yonekawa, Yukiko Nakajima, Sakamoto Koji, Kazue Fujita, Masakiyo Yatomi, Makoto Ishii, Ryuji Koike, Eigo Shimizu, Shigeru Chiba, Satoru Miyawaki, Shunsuke Maeda, Toshio Odani, Hideyasu Sugimoto, Masanori Nishikawa, Yoshinori Yasui, Akira Ando, Takayuki Shibusawa, Nobuharu Ooshima, Toshiyuki Kita, Satoru Fukuyama, Ai Tada, Mariko Terashima, Tadao Nagasaki, Rie Baba, Atsuya Narita, Takanori Ogawa, Tetsuo Shimizu, Ken Ueda, Yuki Haruta, Satoru Hashimoto, Ryohei Suematsu, Ho Lee, Ryosuke Satomi, Hirotaka Eguchi, Kota Ishioka, Ryousuke Aoki, Yusuke Suzuki, Takemasa Matsumoto, Kazunari Sonobe, Hisato Hiranuma, Hirayasu Kai, Kosuke Yoshida, Ayumi Yoshifuji, Takeru Kashiwada, Yuko Harada, Reoto Takei, Aya Wakabayashi, Tomohiro Matsunaga, Haruhiko Hirata, Hiroshi Morisaki, Yoshifumi Uwamino, Yoshihisa Tokunaga, Kazuki Niwa, Hidetoshi Kawashima, Hideki Terai, Kenji Takano, Mumon Takita, Yuko Komase, Masaki Yamasaki, Chiaki Hosoda, Takayuki Ogura, Shun Shibata, Mitsuru Motegi, Takeshi Takahashi, Takehiko Ohba, Shinichi Hayashi, Satoshi Ito, Yu Kasamatsu, Shinnosuke Ikemura, Tetsuya Fukuta, Koichiro Asano, Taka-aki Nakada, Kota Murohashi, Tomoyuki Uchida, Hirotaka Matsuo, Satoko Hanada, Kenta Nishiyama, Minoru Inomata, Nobukazu Fujimoto, Tomoya Tateishi, Mitsuaki Kojima, Kazuto Kato, Kazuhiko Katayama, Yuichi Maeda, Takashi Kagaya, Keiko Wakahara, Takashi Ogura, Yasuhiro Gon, Taku Oshima, Ken Arimura, Shuhei Maruyama, Mari Tone, Ryuichi Sato, Koichi Fukunaga, Hidefumi Koh, Yuichiro Kitagawa, Noboru Takayanagi, Masatoshi Miyazaki, Ichiro Nakachi, Akihiko Kawana, Toshiyuki Hirano, Yohei Funatsu, Yasushi Nakamori, Reiko Sado, Yasuo Shichinohe, Junya Suzuki, Yasunari Kaneyama, Takahito Miyake, Kunihiro Yamagata, Yasuhito Nannya, Shinichi Ogawa, Naoya Hida, Tsuyoshi Oguma, Kazunori Nakamura, Kosaku Nanki, Naozumi Hashimoto, Fumihiko Matsuda, Tomoyuki Kimura, Daiki Morikawa, Yuji Uchimura, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Kazuhisa Yoshiya, Takashige Kuraki, Yoshihiro Eriguchi, Tomohisa Shoko, Tadanaga Shimada, Yuji Hiramatsu, Akihiko Tanaka, Hideya Kitamura, Yutaka Kozu, Ryosuke Arai, Taisuke Isono, Yasushi Makino, Seiya Imoto, Yuichi Adachi, Yuma Matsui, Masato Shinoki, Kazumi Nishio, Keiko Mitamura, Tomonori Imamura, Masanori Azuma, Sonoko Harada, Hiroshi Ono, Kotoe Katayama, Masumi Ai, Keisuke Shinozuka, Reiko Taki, Junichi Maruyama, Takao Imai, Yutaro Kaneko, Kensuke Kanaoka, Sho Ota, Yoji Nagasaki, Toshihiro Kishikawa, Takayuki Niitsu, Hirohisa Horinouchi, Naoyuki Kuse, Tetsuya Shiomi, Jun Nakajima, Katsushi Tokunaga, Norihiro Harada, Keita Masuzawa, Noriyuki Kijima, Takeshi Osawa, Satoru Sakagami, Kazuhiko Fujii, Shotaro Chubachi, Tomoyuki Yoshihara, Yoshimi Noda, Hiroyasu Ishikura, Kiyoshi Koshida, Shin Ohta, Ai Nakamura, Naota Kuwahara, Shinji Ogura, Suguru Ueda, Akihiro Ito, Morio Nakamura, Tohru Takata, Yuya Shirai, Hidenori Takahashi, Eriko Yoshida, Satoru Beppu, Mitsuyoshi Utsugi, Masafumi Shimoda, Masatoshi Shimo, Tomoo Ishii, Takefumi Nikaido, Takanori Asakura, Kazuya Miyagawa, Takanori Kanai, Hiroto Kishi, Akane Kamiya, Genta Nagao, Kodai Kawamura, Ryunosuke Saiki, Takashi Yoshiyama, Hajime Sasano, Kazuyoshi Watanabe, and Yuta Matsubara

Subjects
Genetics, education.field_of_study, Population, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Genome-wide association study, Odds ratio, Biology, medicine.disease, Obesity, Confidence interval, Minor allele frequency, Pandemic, medicine, education
Abstract

To elucidate the host genetic loci affecting severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection, or Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is an emerging issue in the face of the current devastating pandemic. Here, we report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of COVID-19 in a Japanese population led by the Japan COVID-19 Task Force, as one of the initial discovery GWAS studies performed on a non-European population. Enrolling a total of 2,393 cases and 3,289 controls, we not only replicated previously reported COVID-19 risk variants (e.g., LZTFL1, FOXP4, ABO, and IFNAR2), but also found a variant on 5p35 (rs60200309-A at DOCK2) that was significantly associated with severe COVID-19 in younger (-8 (odds ratio = 2.01, 95% confidence interval = 1.58-2.55). This risk allele was prevalent in East Asians, including Japanese (minor allele frequency [MAF] = 0.097), but rarely found in Europeans. Cross-population Mendelian randomization analysis made a causal inference of a number of complex human traits on COVID-19. In particular, obesity had a significant impact on severe COVID-19. The presence of the population-specific risk allele underscores the need of non-European studies of COVID-19 host genetics.

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2021

33. Anisotropic response of spin susceptibility in the superconducting state of UTe2 probed with Te125−NMR measurement

Author

Ai Nakamura, Hironori Sakai, Yoshiya Homma, Shunsaku Kitagawa, Shinsaku Kambe, Dexin Li, Kenji Ishida, Genki Nakamine, Yusei Shimizu, Fuminori Honda, Katsuki Kinjo, Dai Aoki, and Yo Tokunaga

Subjects
Superconductivity, Physics, Condensed matter physics, Pairing, Transition temperature, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, State (functional analysis), Anisotropy, Spin-½, Magnetic field
Abstract

To investigate spin susceptibility in a superconducting (SC) state, we measured the $^{125}\mathrm{Te}$-NMR Knight shifts at magnetic fields ($H$) up to 6.5 T along the $b$ and $c$ axes of single-crystal ${\mathrm{UTe}}_{2}$, a promising candidate for a spin-triplet superconductor. In the SC state, the Knight shifts along the $b$ and $c$ axes (${K}_{b}$ and ${K}_{c}$, respectively) decreased slightly, and the decrease in ${K}_{b}$ was almost constant up to 6.5 T. The reduction in ${K}_{c}$ decreased with increasing $H$, and ${K}_{c}$ was unchanged through the SC transition temperature at 5.5 T, excluding the possibility of spin-singlet pairing. Our results indicate that spin susceptibilities along the $b$ and $c$ axes slightly decrease in the SC state in low $H$, and the $H$ response of SC spin susceptibility is anisotropic on the $bc$ plane. We discuss the possible $\mathbit{d}$-vector state within the spin-triplet scenario and suggest that the dominant $\mathbit{d}$-vector component for the case of $H\ensuremath{\parallel}b$ changes above 13 T, where ${T}_{\mathrm{c}}$ increases with increasing $H$.

Published
2021

34. Single-crystal growth and magnetic phase diagram of the enantiopure crystal of NdPt2B

Author

Arvind Maurya, Yoshiya Homma, Ai Nakamura, Dai Aoki, Yusei Shimizu, Fuminori Honda, Dexin Li, Yoshinori Haga, and Yoshiki Sato

Subjects
Materials science, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Magnetism, High Energy Physics::Lattice, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Crystal, Crystallography, Enantiopure drug, 0103 physical sciences, Racemic mixture, General Materials Science, Enantiomer, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Ternary operation, Chirality (chemistry), Single crystal
Abstract

Chirality, which is a fundamental property of symmetry, can produce unique electronic and magnetic properties. The problem is that many of the chiral inorganic compounds form a racemic mixture consisting of right- and left-handed enantiomers. Here, the authors succeeded in growing the enantiopure single crystal of Nd-based monoaxial chiral magnet, demonstrating the nontrivial magnetic phase diagram in this rare-earth chiral magnet with the DM interaction. This ternary rare-earth platinum boride system provides an attractive platform for examining chiral magnetism and the role of DM interaction.

Published
2021

35. Pressure induced multicriticality and electronic instability in quasi-kagome ferromagnet URhSn

Author

Dexin Li, Jun Gouchi, Arvind Maurya, Yusei Shimizu, Ai Nakamura, Dai Aoki, Yoshiki Sato, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Fuminori Honda, D. Bhoi, M. Sathiskumar, and Yoshiya Homma

Subjects
Quantum phase transition, Range (particle radiation), Materials science, Condensed matter physics, Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el), FOS: Physical sciences, Fermi surface, Electron, Instability, Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Ferromagnetism, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Phase (matter), Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract

We report an unconventional class of pressure-induced quantum phase transitions, possessing two bicritical points at 6.25 GPa in URhSn. This unique transformation accompanies a Fermi surface reconstruction, demarcating competing ordered phases suitably described with a localized and itinerant description of the magnetic $5f$ electrons. Ferromagnetic fluctuations over a wide range of temperatures and pressures in the pressure-induced low temperature phase are evidenced by a robust ${T}^{5/3}$ temperature dependence of resistivity up to 11 GPa, which is a characteristic of an elusive marginal Fermi-liquid state.

Published
2021
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36. Molecular Prediction of SARS-Cov-2 Transmission in Domesticated Livestock

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Akito Uehara, Go Asari, Ai Nakamura, Naoki Suzuki, Takaya Ichikawa, Hidemitsu Sakagami, Yoko Tanino, Yuuki Nagashima, Kazuki Yamada, Kae Takahashi, Shohei Kuroda, Seisuke Saito, Yasutaka Kakinoki, Keiko Suzuki, Shin Kukita, and Satoshi Suzuki

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Multivariate analysis, biology, Isolation (health care), business.industry, Psychological intervention, Disease, Odds ratio, Clinical trial, Internal medicine, biology.protein, Medicine, Antibody, business, Viral load
Abstract

Background Recent data from clinical trial suggest that antibody cocktail therapy, a combination of the monoclonal antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab, has been shown to rapidly reduce the viral load and markedly decrease the risk of hospitalization or death among high-risk patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). However, it remains unclear how effective in a real-life clinical setting the therapy is. Methods We retrospectively analyzed mild to moderate Covid-19 patients with one or more high-risk factors for severe disease who consecutively underwent the antibody cocktail therapy of the disease in our institute in June 2021 through early September 2021, compared to those with high-risk factors who were isolated in non-medical facilities consecutively during the same period, thereby being not given the antibody cocktail therapy there. The key outcome was the percentage of patients with Covid-19-related deterioration which needed additional medical interventions, such as oxygen support or other antiviral therapies. Results Data from 55 patients with initially receiving antibody cocktail therapy and 53 patients with isolation into non-medical facilities are analyzed. 22 (41.5 %) of 53 patients with isolation facilities were finally hospitalized to receive medical interventions. On the other hand, 13 (23.6 %) of 55 patients with antibody cocktail therapy in our hospital subsequently underwent further medical interventions because of the progression. In multivariate analysis with variables of age, BMI, and high-risk factors, the antibody cocktail therapy significantly reduced 70 % in the need for further medical interventions compared to the initial isolation in the non-medical facilities (odds ratio=0.30, 95%CI [0.10-0.87], p=0.027). Furthermore, patients with 96% or above of SPO2 were significantly more favorable for the therapy than those with 95% or below of SPO2. Conclusion The treatment of antibody cocktail was closely linked to reduction in the need for further medical interventions. The result indicates that the antibody cocktail therapy is associated with reducing the strain on hospitals, which is related to the improvement of medical management for public health care in Covid-19 pandemic era.

Published
2021

37. Anisotropy of upper critical field and surface superconducting state in the intermediate-valence superconductor CeIr3

Author

Dai Aoki, Ai Nakamura, Yusei Shimizu, Arvind Maurya, Takatsugu Koizumi, Dexin Li, Fuminori Honda, Yoshiya Homma, and Yoshiki Sato

Subjects
Superconductivity, Physics, Valence (chemistry), Specific heat, Condensed matter physics, Magnetic moment, Isotropy, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Condensed Matter::Superconductivity, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Anisotropy, Critical field
Abstract

${\mathrm{CeIr}}_{3}$ is a Ce-based superconductor with a superconducting transition temperature ${T}_{\mathrm{c}}=3.4$ K in an intermediate-valence state. We grew high-quality single crystals of ${\mathrm{CeIr}}_{3}$ using the Czochralski method, and measured the electrical resistivity, magnetic torque, and specific heat. The anisotropy of the superconducting upper critical field ${H}_{\mathrm{c}2}$ was determined. The temperature dependence of ${H}_{\mathrm{c}2}$, obtained from the resistivity measurements, suggests the multiband character of the superconductivity in ${\mathrm{CeIr}}_{3}$. Different field-angle dependencies of ${H}_{\mathrm{c}2}$ in electrical transport and thermodynamic measurements indicate the robust surface effect in the bulk superconductivity of ${\mathrm{CeIr}}_{3}$. We analyzed the surface superconductivity based on simple models to reveal the bulk superconducting properties. Our results support the isotropic bulk superconducting state and robust surface superconductivity in ${\mathrm{CeIr}}_{3}$ single crystals.

Published
2020

38. Strong magnetic anisotropy and unusual magnetic field reinforced phase in URhSn with a quasi-kagome structure

Author

Ai Nakamura, Atsushi Miyake, Dai Aoki, Yoshiya Homma, Yo Tokunaga, Masashi Tokunaga, Dexin Li, Yoshiki Sato, Fuminori Honda, Arvind Maurya, Makoto Yokoyama, and Yusei Shimizu

Subjects
Physics, Condensed matter physics, Magnetic moment, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Heat capacity, Magnetic susceptibility, Magnetization, Paramagnetism, Magnetic anisotropy, Ferromagnetism, 0103 physical sciences, Antiferromagnetism, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract

The physical properties of URhSn with quasi-kagome structure are studied using single-crystalline samples via electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, thermal expansion, and high-field magnetization measurements. Remarkable magnetic anisotropy is found in the ferromagnetic (FM) state below ${T}_{\mathrm{C}}=16\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$ as well as in the ordered state between ${T}_{\mathrm{C}}$ and ${T}_{\mathrm{O}}=54\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$, where the easy and hard magnetization directions are the hexagonal [0001] and $[10\overline{1}0]$ axes. In the paramagnetic state, the magnetic susceptibility shows a Curie-Weiss behavior; the Weiss temperatures are positive and negative for [0001] and $[10\overline{1}0]$, respectively, indicating the presence of both FM and antiferromagnetic (AFM) correlations. The entropy release for $5f$ electrons is approximately $R\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{ln}3$ at ${T}_{\mathrm{O}}$. The thermal expansion coefficient is strongly anisotropic around ${T}_{\mathrm{O}}$ between the hexagonal basal plane and the [0001] axis, indicating its remarkable anisotropic magnetoelastic response and uniaxial stress dependences. Interestingly, the magnetic field response of the higher-temperature ordered state is unusual: ${T}_{\mathrm{O}}(H)$ increases and the heat-capacity jump is enhanced with the magnetic field for $H\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}||\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}[0001]$. Based on the established thermodynamic evidence for the second-order transition at ${T}_{\mathrm{O}}(H)$, a plausible scenario is the occurrence of a canted AFM ordering or a conical state under magnetic fields, which is stabilized when coupled with field-induced magnetic moments along the [0001] axis. Another possibility is the occurrence of quadrupole ordering at ${T}_{\mathrm{O}}(H)$.

Published
2020

39. Extremely large magnetoresistance, anisotropic Hall effect, and Fermi surface topology in single-crystalline WSi2

Author

Souvik Sasmal, Dai Aoki, Ruta Kulkarni, Arvind Maurya, Ai Nakamura, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Rajib Mondal, and Hisatomo Harima

Subjects
Physics, Electron mobility, Magnetoresistance, Fermi surface, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Topology, 01 natural sciences, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Hall effect, 0103 physical sciences, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Electronic band structure, Single crystal, Phase diagram
Abstract

We report on the observation of a nonsaturating, extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) and the Fermi surface topology of a high quality $\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{Si}}_{2}$ single crystal grown by the Czochralski method. The magnetoresistance at $T=2\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$ reaches a value $\ensuremath{\approx}{10}^{5}%$ in 14 T magnetic field with no sign of saturation. The Hall resistivity data of $\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{Si}}_{2}$ was found to be highly anisotropic. The analysis of magnetoconductivity data of $\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{Si}}_{2}$ revealed a near compensation of charge carrier with relatively low carrier density as compared to that of a normal metal. The observed anisotropic Hall resistivity in $\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{Si}}_{2}$ is due to the presence of multiple bands and Fermi pockets responsible for the transport phenomena in it. The extremely large carrier mobility and near compensation of charge carriers are responsible for the nonsaturating XMR behavior in $\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{Si}}_{2}$ crystal. The band structure calculation and de Haas-van Alphen effect measurement depict a cylindrical Fermi surface from which the associated quantum parameters have been obtained. The magnetotransport data of $\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{Si}}_{2}$ along both the crystallographic directions follows the universal temperature-field triangular phase diagram as observed in other materials exhibiting XMR behavior.

Published
2020

40. Orbital crossing in spin-split Fermi surfaces and anisotropic effective mass of the noncentrosymmetric heavy-fermion paramagnet UPt5

Author

Hisatomo Harima, Dai Aoki, Fuminori Honda, Ai Nakamura, Arvind Maurya, Yoshiya Homma, Yoshiki Sato, Dexin Li, and Yusei Shimizu

Subjects
Physics, Condensed matter physics, Fermi surface, 02 engineering and technology, Electron, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Heat capacity, Magnetization, Paramagnetism, Effective mass (solid-state physics), Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Condensed Matter::Superconductivity, 0103 physical sciences, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

We report the single-crystal growth of the noncentrosymmetric cubic heavy-fermion paramagnet ${\mathrm{UPt}}_{5}$ and comparative Fermi surface studies of de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) experiments and theoretical band calculations. We also present the results of single-crystal x-ray diffraction, electrical resistivity, heat capacity, and magnetization measurements using single crystals of ${\mathrm{UPt}}_{5}$. The dHvA experiments reveal nearly spherical split hole Fermi surfaces and largely split electron Fermi surfaces, which are in agreement with the results of a band-structure calculation. The largely split electron Fermi surfaces may be understood through the antisymmetric spin-orbit interaction derived from U-$5f$ and Pt-$5d$ electrons. We explain the observed unexpected dHvA frequencies quasiquantitatively based on orbital crossing using the coupled network analysis in the split hole Fermi surface pair. Furthermore, the temperature dependence of the dHvA amplitude reveals enhanced cyclotron effective masses of up to $29{m}_{0}$ and a peculiar anisotropic effective mass in the paramagnetic cubic heavy-fermion ${\mathrm{UPt}}_{5}$.

Published
2020

41. Single Crystal Growth and Electronic Properties of Mn2P and Fe2P

Author

Fuminori Honda, Takanori Kida, Masayuki Hagiwara, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Hisatomo Harima, Shinya Matsuda, Kenri Nakaima, Masashi Kakihana, Ai Nakamura, Miho Nakashima, Yoshinori Haga, Yasushi Amako, Jouji Ota, Masato Hedo, Takao Nakama, and Dai Aoki

Subjects
Crystallography, Materials science, Single crystal growth, Electronic properties
Published
2020

43. de Haas–van Alphen Effect in NdTi2Al20

Author

Dai Aoki, Eiichi Matsuoka, Hitoshi Sugawara, Hisatomo Harima, Hideki Tou, Takeo Yoshinaga, Jun Kaneyoshi, Hisashi Kotegawa, and Ai Nakamura

Published
2020

44. Unique Skyrmion Phases and Conduction Electrons in Cubic Chiral Antiferromagnet EuPtSi and Related Compounds

Author

Tetsuya Takeuchi, Shota Nakamura, Takao Nakama, Masashi Kakihana, Yoshinori Haga, Kenri Nakaima, Dai Aoki, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Wataru Iha, Fuminori Honda, Toshiro Sakakibara, Ai Nakamura, Miho Nakashima, Hisatomo Harima, Yasushi Amako, Jun Gouchi, Masato Hedo, and Hiroaki Ikeda

Subjects
Physics, Condensed matter physics, Skyrmion, Antiferromagnetism, Electron, Thermal conduction
Published
2020

45. NMR Study of Characteristic CDW Transition in SrAl4

Author

Ai Nakamura, Kaori Niki, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Mamoru Yogi, Mach Morishima, Masato Hedo, Takahiro Maehira, Hiroko Kuroshima, Haruo Niki, Nonoka Higa, and Takao Nakama

Subjects
Materials science, Condensed matter physics
Published
2020

47. Anomalous Hall Effect in Antiferromagnet EuNiGe3 with the Rashba-type Tetragonal Structure

Author

Ai Nakamura, Miho Nakashima, Shinya Matsuda, Yasushi Amako, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Wataru Iha, Motoi Kimata, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Yoshichika Otani, Takao Nakama, Masashi Kakihana, Masato Hedo, and Dai Aoki

Subjects
Tetragonal crystal system, Materials science, Condensed matter physics, Hall effect, Structure (category theory), Antiferromagnetism, Type (model theory)
Published
2020

48. Substitution Effect for Cd Site in RT2Cd20 (R = Ce, U)

Author

Hiroshi Doto, Rikio Settai, Yoshiya Homma, Dai Aoki, Koki Takayama, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Yusuke Hirose, Takuma Kawano, Ai Nakamura, and Fuminori Honda

Subjects
Chemistry, Substitution effect, Molecular biology
Published
2020

49. Single-crystal Growth and de Haas–van Alphen Effect in CeIr2

Author

Hideki Tou, Yoshiya Homma, Ai Nakamura, Hitoshi Sugawara, Kazuyuki Omasa, Hisashi Kotegawa, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Hisatomo Harima, Eiichi Matsuoka, Daisuke Satoh, and Dai Aoki

Subjects
Materials science, Condensed matter physics, Single crystal growth, De Haas–van Alphen effect
Published
2020

50. De Haas–van Alphen Effect and Fermi Surface Properties of Ti2Sn3

Author

Takao Nakama, Masashi Kakihana, Yoshinori Haga, Ai Nakamura, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Hisatomo Harima, Dai Aoki, Jouji Ota, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Wataru Iha, Masato Hedo, Jun Gouchi, and Shoya Kawakatsu

Subjects
Physics, Condensed matter physics, Fermi surface, De Haas–van Alphen effect
Published
2020

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