Coloring in anyon superconductivity
U. Mehta, Y. Nakajima, and H.Goldman , Under review, arXiv:2607.19470 (2026)
CV
Education
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Sep 2024 – Present
- Minneapolis, United States
- PhD Student in Physics
- School of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science and Engineering
- Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics; YITP（京都大学基礎物理学研究所）
- Apr 2024 – Aug 2024
- Kyoto, Japan
- Enrolled as a master student and left after five months
- Kyoto University（京都大学）
- Apr 2020 – Mar 2024
- Kyoto, Japan
- Bachelor of Science in Physics
- Nara high school（奈良県立奈良高等学校）
- Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
- Nara, Japan
Internship & Programs
- Summer 2022: Summer Research Internship
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency; JAEA（日本原子力研究開発機構）
- Ibaraki, Japan
- Theme: Molecular dynamics for many-quark system
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Toshiki Maruyama
- Spring 2023: Short research program “Science Challenge”
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; OIST（沖縄科学技術大学院大学）
Awards
- Presentation Award（優秀発表賞）
- March 2026, Online
- Theoretical Physics Student Seminar 2026（理論物理学生セミナー2026）
- Oral Presentation Award（分科会優秀発表賞）& Poster Presentation Award（ポスター優秀発表賞）
- Aug 2025, Shiga, Japan
- Condensed Matter Physics Summer School 2025（第70回物性若手夏の学校）
- Student Presentation Award（日本物理学会 学生優秀発表賞）
- Mar 2023, Online
- JPS Spring Meeting 2023（日本物理学会春季大会）
Publications
Thermodynamics of dilute anyon gases from fusion constraints
Yuto Nakajima et al J. Stat. Mech. (2026) 063101
Local Polyakov-loop fluctuation and center domains in quark-gluon plasma with many colors
Y. Nakajima and H. Suganuma, Proceedings of Science **453** 204
Structure of the deconfinement vacuum in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory: emergence of Nambu-Goldstone mode in the large-N limit
Y. Nakajima and H. Suganuma, Unpublished, arXiv:2212.13874 (2022)
Talks
Thermodynamics of Dilute Anyon Gases from Fusion Constraints
Poster at Gordon Research Conference: Correlated Electron Systems, Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA
The duality web of Chern-Simons matter theory and the recent applications to strongly correlated electrons
Talk at Theoretical Physics Student Seminars 2026, Online
Categorical Approach to the Statistical Mechanics of Many-Anyon Systems
Poster at Kyoto Workshop on Quantum Thermodynamics and Stochastic Thermodynamics 2025, Yukawa Institute, Kyoto, Japan
From the modular tensor category to the themodynamics of dilute anyon gases
Talk & Poster at 第70回物性若手夏の学校 (The 70th condensed matter physics summer school), Shiga, Japan
Thermodynamics of Dilute Anyon Gases from Fusion Constraints
Poster at Princeton Summer School on Condensed Matter Physics (PSSCMP) 2025, Princeton University, NJ, USA
Center Symmetry in Deconfinement Phase of Finite-Temperature SU(N) Gauge Theory
Talk at Particle Theory Seminar, Kyoto University, Japan
The stability of center domains in SU(N) QCD at high temperatures
Talk at JPS Annual Meeting 2023, Tohoku University, Japan
Local Polyakov-loop fluctuation and center domains in quark-gluon plasma with many colors
Talk at The 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE 2023), Fermilab, IL, USA
Z_N Structure of Deconfinement Vacuum in SU(N) Yang-Mills Theory
Talk at Quark-Hadron Seminar, Kyoto University, Japan
Structure of the deconfinement vacuum in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory
Poster at JPS Annual Meeting 2023, Tohoku University, Japan
Scholarships & Fellowships
- JASSO Student Exchange Support Program（日本学生支援機構 海外留学支援制度（大学院学位取得型））
- Sep 2026 – Aug 2029
- The full amount of Tuition & Medical Insurance + Living costs + Others
- Funai Overseas Scholarship（船井情報科学振興財団奨学金）
- Sep 2024 – Aug 2026
- Fuji Seal Foundation Scholarship（フジシール財団奨学金）
- Apr 2022 – Mar 2024
- Kyoto University Fund – Corporation Endowed Scholarship（京都大学基金 企業寄付奨学金）
- Aug 2022
Service and leadership
- Leading Japanese Overseas Graduate Student Association（海外大学院学生会）
- March 2026 - Present
- A legitimate 501(c)(3) non-profit hosting informative events to support students in Japan aiming for overseas graduate degrees.