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Haruki Watanabe

Haruki Watanabe

Professor, Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
IAS Professor, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study

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Office: Room 4453, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: +852 2358-7476
Email: hwatanabe@ust.hk

Academic Appointments

Mar 2026 – presentProfessor of Physics, IAS Professor, HKUST
Jan 2019 – Feb 2026Associate Professor (PI), Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo
Feb 2016 – Dec 2018Lecturer (PI), Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo
Jul 2015 – Jan 2016Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education

Aug 2011 – May 2015Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley (Advisor: Prof. Ashvin Vishwanath)
Apr 2010 – Mar 2012M.Sc. in Physics, University of Tokyo
Apr 2006 – Mar 2010B.A. in Physics, University of Tokyo

Selected Awards

Research Profiles

Publications

Over 60 refereed publications, including 14 in Physical Review Letters, 5 in Physical Review X, 3 in Science Advances, 2 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and 1 in Nature Communications. Seven papers have been selected as Editors' Suggestions. Author of an invited review article in Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 11, 169 (2020).

Selected publications (Watanabe in bold; * denotes corresponding author):

  1. R. Masaoka, T. Soejima, and H. Watanabe*, "Rigorous lower bound of dynamic critical exponents in critical frustration-free systems", Phys. Rev. X 15, 041050 (2025).
  2. H. Watanabe*, H. Katsura, and J. Y. Lee, "Critical Spontaneous breaking of U(1) symmetry at zero temperature in one dimension", Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176001 (2024). Editors' Suggestion.
  3. F. Tang, S. Ono, X.-G. Wan, and H. Watanabe*, "High-throughput Investigations of Topological and Nodal Superconductors", Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 027001 (2022). Editors' Suggestion.
  4. H. Watanabe and H. C. Po*, "Fractional Corner Charge of Sodium Chloride", Phys. Rev. X 11, 041064 (2021).
  5. S. Ono, H. C. Po, and H. Watanabe*, "Refined symmetry indicators for topological superconductors in all space groups", Sci. Adv. 6, eaaz8367 (2020).
  6. H. C. Po, H. Watanabe, and A. Vishwanath*, "Fragile Topology and Wannier Obstructions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126402 (2018). Editors' Suggestion.
  7. E. Khalaf, H. C. Po, A. Vishwanath, and H. Watanabe*, "Symmetry indicators and anomalous surface states of topological crystalline insulators", Phys. Rev. X 8, 031070 (2018).
  8. H. Watanabe and M. Oshikawa*, "Inequivalent Berry phases for the bulk polarization", Phys. Rev. X 8, 021065 (2018).
  9. H. C. Po, A. Vishwanath*, and H. Watanabe, "Symmetry-based indicators of band topology in the 230 space groups", Nat. Commun. 8, 50 (2017).
  10. H. Watanabe and M. Oshikawa*, "Absence of Quantum Time Crystals", Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 251603 (2015).
  11. H. Watanabe and H. Murayama*, "Effective Lagrangian for Nonrelativistic Systems", Phys. Rev. X 4, 031057 (2014).
  12. H. Watanabe and H. Murayama*, "Unified Description of Nambu–Goldstone Bosons without Lorentz Invariance", Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 251602 (2012). Editors' Suggestion.

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