Akiko Kikkawa

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Akiko Kikkawa is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Akiko Kikkawa has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 50 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Akiko Kikkawa's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (32 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (31 papers) and Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (27 papers). Akiko Kikkawa is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (32 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (31 papers) and Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (27 papers). Akiko Kikkawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Switzerland and France. Akiko Kikkawa's co-authors include Yoshinori Tokura, Yasujiro Taguchi, T. Arima, K. Katsumata, Taro Nakajima, Fumitaka Kagawa, Yuichi Yamasaki, Y. Tokunaga, Yasuo Narumi and Xiuzhen Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Akiko Kikkawa

82 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Skyrmion phase and competing magnetic orders on a breathi... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Skyrmion phase and competing magnetic orders on a breathing kagomé lattice
    2019 263 citations Max Hirschberger, Taro Nakajima et al. profile →

Peers

Akiko Kikkawa
Hiroaki Kusunose Japan
J. L. Gavilano Switzerland
Igor Di Marco Sweden
V. Yu. Irkhin Russia
Ch. Binek United States
Y. K. Huang Netherlands
M. P. M. Dean United States
Tom Berlijn United States
R. Tidecks Germany
Shaoyan Chu United States
Hiroaki Kusunose Japan
Akiko Kikkawa
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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Akiko Kikkawa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Akiko Kikkawa based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Akiko Kikkawa. Akiko Kikkawa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Osada, Motoki, C. Terakura, Akiko Kikkawa, et al.. (2025). Strain-tuning for superconductivity in La3Ni2O7 thin films. Communications Physics. 8(1). 6 indexed citations
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Okuyama, Daisuke, Markus Bleuel, Naoto Nagaosa, et al.. (2024). Detailed dynamics of a moving magnetic skyrmion lattice in MnSi observed using small-angle neutron scattering under an alternating electric current flow. Physical review. B.. 110(1). 2 indexed citations
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Birch, Max T., Ilya Belopolski, Yukako Fujishiro, et al.. (2024). Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions. Nature. 633(8030). 554–559. 6 indexed citations
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Nomura, Toshihiro, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, R. Takagi, et al.. (2023). Nonreciprocal Phonon Propagation in a Metallic Chiral Magnet. Physical Review Letters. 130(17). 176301–176301. 10 indexed citations
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Saito, Hiraku, Takashi Kurumaji, Max Hirschberger, et al.. (2023). Polarized neutron scattering study of the centrosymmetric skyrmion host material Gd2PdSi3. Physical review. B.. 107(2). 7 indexed citations
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Ôike, Hiroshi, Takashi Koretsune, Akiko Kikkawa, et al.. (2022). Topological Nernst effect emerging from real-space gauge field and thermal fluctuations in a magnetic skyrmion lattice. Physical review. B.. 106(21). 4 indexed citations
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Sato, Takuro, Wataru Koshibae, Akiko Kikkawa, et al.. (2022). Nonthermal current-induced transition from skyrmion lattice to nontopological magnetic phase in spatially confined MnSi. Physical review. B.. 106(14).
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Ukleev, Victor, Daisuke Morikawa, Kosuke Karube, et al.. (2022). Topological Melting of the Metastable Skyrmion Lattice in the Chiral Magnet Co 9 Zn 9 Mn 2. Advanced Quantum Technologies. 5(11). 4 indexed citations
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Nomoto, Takuya, Hironori Nakao, Akiko Kikkawa, et al.. (2022). Entropy-Assisted, Long-Period Stacking of Honeycomb Layers in an AlB2-Type Silicide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(37). 16866–16871. 3 indexed citations
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Yasin, Fehmi Sami, Jan Masell, Kosuke Karube, et al.. (2022). Real-space determination of the isolated magnetic skyrmion deformation under electric current flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(41). e2200958119–e2200958119. 9 indexed citations
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Karube, Kosuke, D. Ehlers, B. Szigeti, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Vital role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in cubic chiral skyrmion hosts. npj Quantum Materials. 6(1). 3 indexed citations
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Ukleev, Victor, Kosuke Karube, P. M. Derlet, et al.. (2021). Frustration-driven magnetic fluctuations as the origin of the low-temperature skyrmion phase in Co7Zn7Mn6. npj Quantum Materials. 6(1). 21 indexed citations
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Karube, Kosuke, D. Ehlers, B. Szigeti, et al.. (2021). Vital role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in cubic chiral skyrmion hosts. npj Quantum Materials. 6(1). 31 indexed citations
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Karube, Kosuke, J. S. White, Victor Ukleev, et al.. (2020). Metastable skyrmion lattices governed by magnetic disorder and anisotropy in β-Mn-type chiral magnets. Physical review. B.. 102(6). 46 indexed citations
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Hirschberger, Max, Takuya Nomoto, Takashi Kurumaji, et al.. (2020). Topological Nernst Effect of the Two-Dimensional Skyrmion Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 125(7). 76602–76602. 75 indexed citations
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Nakajima, Taro, T. Oda, Masahiro Hino, et al.. (2020). Crystallization of magnetic skyrmions in MnSi investigated by neutron spin echo spectroscopy. Physical Review Research. 2(4). 4 indexed citations
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Gao, Shang, Max Hirschberger, O. Zaharko, et al.. (2019). Ordering phenomena of spin trimers accompanied by a large geometrical Hall effect. Physical review. B.. 100(24). 11 indexed citations
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Okuyama, Daisuke, Markus Bleuel, J. S. White, et al.. (2019). Deformation of the moving magnetic skyrmion lattice in MnSi under electric current flow. Communications Physics. 2(1). 19 indexed citations
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Karube, Kosuke, J. S. White, Daisuke Morikawa, et al.. (2018). Disordered skyrmion phase stabilized by magnetic frustration in a chiral magnet. Science Advances. 4(9). eaar7043–eaar7043. 86 indexed citations
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Nakajima, Taro, Hiroshi Ôike, Akiko Kikkawa, et al.. (2017). Skyrmion lattice structural transition in MnSi. Science Advances. 3(6). e1602562–e1602562. 81 indexed citations

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