Department

Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems, Division of Functional Molecular Systems

Biography

2018    Bachelor of Engineering in Applied Chemistry, Meijo University, Japan
2023    Ph.D. at Department of Structural Molecular Science, School of Physical Sciences, SOKENDAI
2020    Institute for Molecular Science SRA
2023    Postdoc Associate, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University
2025   Assistant Professor, Institute for Molecular Science

Main research themes

Angular momentum physics in chiral molecules

Chirality, Spintronics, Orbitronics, Chiral phonon

Selected Publications

1. Theories of Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity: A Pedagogical Overview
   H. Nuomin, Z. Charyshnikova, F. Song, R. Sun, Y. Nabei, N. Singh, K. Terai, P. Zhang, D. Sun, and D. N. Beratan
   Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 77, 513 (2026).
    
2. Orbital Seebeck effect induced by chiral phonons
   Y. Nabei, C. Yang, H. Sun, H. Jones, T. Mai, T. Wang, R. Bodin, B. Pandey, Z. Wang, Y. Xiong, A. H. Comstock, B. Ewing, J. Bingen, R. Sun, D. Smirnov, W. Zhang, A. Hoffmann, R. Rao, M. Hu, Z. V. Vardeny, B. Yan, X. Li, J. Zhou, J. Liu, and D. Sun
   Nat. phys. 22, 245 (2026).
    
3. Determination of Orbital Relaxation in Ti/Ni Heterostructure via Orbital Pumping
   R. Sun, Y. Nabei, A. McConnell, X. Zhang, A. Comstock, H. Jones, R. Gyawali, Y. Xiong, Z. Wang, J. Liu, W. Zhang, and D. Sun
   J. Appl. Phys. 138, 123905 (2025).
    
4. Supramolecular chirality largely modulates chemical doping of achiral conjugated polymers
   Xu, Z.‡; Saiev, S.‡; Qian, P.‡; Nabei, Y.‡; Rinehart, J. M.; Osterholm, A. M.; Jones, A. L.; Lee, J.-H.; Hwang, C.; Wang, S.; Shin, D.; Jeon, S.; Elangovan, K. E.; Vura-Weis, J.; Coropceanu, V.; Rodriguez-Lopez, J.*; Reynolds, J. R*.; Sun, D.*; Bredas, J.-L.*; Diao. Y.*
   Nat. Commun. 16, 8381 (2025).
    
5. Strain-induced lead-free morphotropic phase boundary
   R. Ghanbari, H. Kp, K. Patel, H. Zhou, T. Zhou, R. Liu, L. Wu, A. Khandelwal, K. J. Crust, S. Hazra, J. Carroll, C. JG. Meyers, J. Wang, S. Prosandeev, H. Qiao, Y. Kim, Y. Nabei, M. Chi, D. Sun, N. Balke, M. Holt, V. Gopalan, J. E. Spanier, D. A. Muller, L. Bellaiche, H. Y. Hwang, R. Xu
   Nat. Commun. 16, 7766 (2025).
    
6. Giant spin polarization and a pair of antiparallel spins in a chiral superconductor
   R. Nakajima, D. Hirobe, G. Kawaguchi, Y. Nabei, T. Sato, T. Narushima, H. Okamoto, and H. M. Yamamoto
   Nature 613, 479 (2023).
    
7. Chirality-induced intrinsic charge rectification in a tellurium-based field-effect transistor
   D. Hirobe, Y. Nabei, and H. M. Yamamoto 
   Phys. Rev. B 106, L220403 (2022).
    
8. Current-induced bulk magnetization of chiral crystal CrNb3S6
   Y. Nabei, D. Hirobe, Y. Shimamoto, K. Shiota, A. Inui, Y. Kousaka, Y. Togawa, and H. M. Yamamoto 
   Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 052408 (2020).
    
9. Doping of boron or nitrogen to multilayered graphene grown on copper by thermal chemical vapor deposition of methane and vapor of phenylboronic acid or melamine
   R. Furukawa, Y. Yamamoto, Y. Nabei, and S. Bandow
   MRS Advances, 4, 211 (2019).