• Bachelor's degree (2005) Hokkaido Univ. (Japan)
• Master's degree (2007) Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
• Doctor's degree (2010) Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)

Research Interests:

• Condensed matter physics
• Monte-Carlo methods
• Optical lattice systems
• Itinerant electron systems

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Yasuyuki Kato, Gia-Wei Chern, K.A. Al-Hassanieh, Natalia B. Perkins and C.D. Batista, Orbital Disorder Induced by Charge Fluctuations in Vanadium Spinels, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108,247215 (2012).
2. Yasuyuki Kato, K.A. Al-Hassanieh, A.E. Feiguin, Eddy Timmermans and C.D. Batista, Novel polaron state for single impurity in a bosonic Mott insulator, EPL 98,46003 (2012).
3. Yasuyuki Kato, C.D. Batista, and I. Vekhter, Antiferromagnetic Order in Pauli-Limited Unconventional Superconductors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107,096401 (2011).
4. Yasuyuki Kato, Ivar Martin, and C.D. Batista, Stability of the Spontaneous Quantum Hall State in the Triangular Kondo-Lattice Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105,266405 (2010).
5. Yasuyuki Kato and Naoki Kawashima, Finite-size scaling for quantum criticality above the upper critical dimension: Superfluid-Mott insulartor transition in three dimensions, Phys. Rev. E 81,011123 (2010).
6. Yasuyuki Kato and Naoki Kawashima Quantum Monte Carlo method for the Bose-Hubbard model with harmonic confining potential, Phys. Rev. E 79,021104 (2009).
7. Yasuyuki Kato, Qi Zhou, Naoki Kawashima, and Nandini Trivedi, Sharp peaks in the momentum distribution of bosons in optical lattices in the normal state, Nat. Phys. 4,617 (2008).
8. Yasuyuki Kato, Takafumi Suzuki, and Naoki Kawashima, Modification of directed-loop algorithm for continuous space simulation of bosonic systems, Phys. Rev. E 75,066703 (2007).