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Yoshinori Tokura

Yoshinori Tokura

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Japan
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Japan Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to multiple physical phenomena within the broad field of complex correlated electronic systems encompassing high temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance in manganites, multiferroic manganites and magnetic skyrmions
  • 1990 - Nishina Memorial Prize

Overview

Yoshinori Tokura is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, with a research profile spanning physics and materials science. They have produced a significant body of work focused on magnetic properties and related condensed matter phenomena.

The main fields of study for Yoshinori Tokura include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Materials Science

Their research extends into several subfields, including:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Key topics covered in their research involve:

  • Magnetic properties of thin films
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Multiferroics and related materials
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Selected recent publications by Yoshinori Tokura include:

  • "Magnetic Skyrmion Materials," 2020, Chemical Reviews

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Tokura comprise:

  • Y. Taguchi
  • T. Arima
  • M. Kawasaki
  • Naoya Kanazawa
  • Naoto Nagaosa

Tokura's work has been published in a variety of venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Physical Review B
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • npj Quantum Materials

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2020, for contributions to complex correlated electronic systems such as high temperature superconductivity and magnetic skyrmions
  • Nishina Memorial Prize, 1990

Best Publications

  • Metal-insulator transitions

    Masatoshi Imada;Atsushi Fujimori;Yoshinori Tokura

  • Magnetic control of ferroelectric polarization

    T. Kimura;T. Kimura;T. Goto;H. Shintani;K. Ishizaka

  • Topological properties and dynamics of magnetic skyrmions

    Naoto Nagaosa;Yoshinori Tokura;Yoshinori Tokura

  • Insulator-metal transition and giant magnetoresistance in La 1-x Sr x MnO 3

    A. Urushibara;Y. Moritomo;T. Arima;A. Asamitsu

  • Real-space observation of a two-dimensional skyrmion crystal

    X. Z. Yu;Y. Onose;N. Kanazawa;J. H. Park

  • Room-temperature magnetoresistance in an oxide material with an ordered double-perovskite structure

    K.-I. Kobayashi;Toshio Kimura;Hideyuki Sawada;Kiyoyuki Terakura

  • Orbital Physics in Transition-Metal Oxides

    Y. Tokura;N. Nagaosa

  • Emergent phenomena at oxide interfaces

    H. Y. Hwang;Y. Iwasa;M. Kawasaki;B. Keimer

  • A superconducting copper oxide compound with electrons as the charge carriers

    Y. Tokura;H. Takagi;S. Uchida

  • Near room-temperature formation of a skyrmion crystal in thin-films of the helimagnet FeGe

    X. Z. Yu;N. Kanazawa;Y. Onose;K. Kimoto

  • Critical features of colossal magnetoresistive manganites

    Y Tokura

  • Field-effect transistor on SrTiO3 with sputtered Al2O3 gate insulator

    K. Ueno;I. H. Inoue;H. Akoh;M. Kawasaki

  • Observation of Skyrmions in a Multiferroic Material

    S. Seki;X. Z. Yu;S. Ishiwata;Y. Tokura

  • Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides

    Yoshinori Tokura

  • Colossal magnetoresistive manganites

    Y Tokura;Y Tomioka

  • Current switching of resistive states in magnetoresistive manganites

    A. Asamitsu;Y. Tomioka;H. Kuwahara;Y. Tokura

  • Ferroelectricity and Giant Magnetocapacitance in Perovskite Rare-Earth Manganites

    T. Goto;T. Kimura;G. Lawes;A. P. Ramirez

  • Control of magnetism by electric fields

    Fumihiro Matsukura;Yoshinori Tokura;Hideo Ohno

  • A First-Order Phase Transition Induced by a Magnetic Field

    H. Kuwahara;Y. Tomioka;A. Asamitsu;Y. Moritomo

  • Hysteretic current–voltage characteristics and resistance switching at a rectifying Ti∕Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 interface

    A. Sawa;T. Fujii;M. Kawasaki;Y. Tokura

Frequent Co-Authors

Masashi Kawasaki
Masashi Kawasaki University of Tokyo
Taka-hisa Arima
Taka-hisa Arima University of Tokyo
Naoto Nagaosa
Naoto Nagaosa University of Tokyo
Atsushi Tsukazaki
Atsushi Tsukazaki Tohoku University
Reiji Kumai
Reiji Kumai High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Sachio Horiuchi
Sachio Horiuchi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yoshihiro Iwasa
Yoshihiro Iwasa University of Tokyo
Yoshio Matsui
Yoshio Matsui National Institute for Materials Science
Hiroshi Okamoto
Hiroshi Okamoto University of Tokyo
Hidenori Takagi
Hidenori Takagi Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

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