Sota Yoshida (吉田聡太)

Profile (日本語はこちら)

Research Field:

Nuclear physics, Computational Physics

Affiliation:

Associate Professor , School of Data Science and Management, Utsunomiya University, Japan

Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN Nishina Center (cross-appointed)

Research interests and skills

Nuclear Structure (Shell-model calc., Nuclear forces from chiral EFT, Many-Body Perturbation Theory)
Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian inference , sampling methods (MCMC, particle filter, adaptive scheme, ...), Gaussian processes with constraints
surrogate models for nuclear many-body problems: Eigenvector Continuation, Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), etc.
Quantum Computing for nuclear many-body problems

E-mail: syoshida[please insert @ here]a.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp

INSPIRE-HEP, Google Scholar, ORCID, GitHub

Employment

2025.4 - Present: Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN Nishina Center (cross-appointed)

2024.4 - Present: Associate Professor, Utsunomiya University, School of Data Science and Management

2022.4 - 2024.3: Assistant Professor, Utsunomiya University Institute for Promotion of Higher Academic Education

2019.10 - 2022.3: Project Research Associate, Utsunomiya University Liberal and General Education Center,Institute for Promotion of Higher Academic Education

Educations

2020 Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Tokyo (supervisor: Prof. Kenji Fukushima) Hadron Physics Group of UTokyo

2017 M.Sc. in Physics, The University of Tokyo (supervisor: Prof. Takaharu Otsuka)

2015 B.Sc. in Physics, Kyoto University (supervisors: Prof. Takahiro Kawabata & Prof. Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo )

Fellowships

2017-2020 : JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists DC1

2018 (Jun.-Sep) : JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers (visiting TU Darmstadt)

2015-2017 : MERIT (Materials Education program for the future leaders in Research, Industry, and Technology), The University of Tokyo

Awards

2017 Incentive Awards for Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo URL (written in Japanese)

2017 Kyoto University President's Award, Kyoto University (as a member of "P4" group) URL (written in Japanese)

2018 Special Prize of Nuclear Physics Forum (原子核談話会特別賞)

2019 CNSSS Young Scientist Award of 2019, The 18th CNS International Summer School

Grants

2017-2020 JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (ID: 17J06775)

Publications & Talks

- Papers (Full list)

16. S. Yoshida: "Surrogate Model for In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group Method Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition", Particles 2025, 8, 13, Published 9 February 2025.

15. S. Yoshida, T. Sato, T. Ogata, T. Naito, M. Kimura, "Accurate and precise quantum computation of valence two-neutron systems", Phys. Rev. C 109, 064305 (2024), Published 7 June 2024, arXiv:2404.01694

14. Vandana Tripathi, Soumik Bhattacharya, E. Rubino, C. Benetti, J. F. Perello, S. L. Tabor, S. N. Liddick, P. C. Bender, M. P. Carpenter, J. J. Carroll, A. Chester, C. J. Chiara, K. Childers, B. R. Clark, B. P. Crider, J. T. Harke, R. Jain, B. Longfellow, S. Luitel, M. Mogannam, T. H. Ogunbeku, A. L. Richard, S. Saha, N. Shimizu, O. A. Shehu, Y. Utsuno, R. Unz, Y. Xiao, S. Yoshida, and Yiyi Zhu: "Low spin spectroscopy of neutron-rich 43,44,45Cl via β− and βn decay" Phys. Rev. C 109, 044320 (2024).

13. S. Yoshida: "IMSRG-Net: A machine-learning-based solver for the in-medium similarity renormalization group method", Phys. Rev. C 108, 044303 (2023), arXiv:2306.08878 Code

12. Y. Kondo, N. L. Achouri, H. Al Falou, L. Atar, T. Aumann, H. Baba, K. Boretzky, C. Caesar, D. Calvet, H. Chae, N. Chiga, A. Corsi, F. Delaunay, A. Delbart, Q. Deshayes, Zs. Dombrádi, C. A. Douma, A. Ekström, Z. Elekes, C. Forssén, I. Gašparić, J.-M. Gheller, J. Gibelin, A. Gillibert, G. Hagen, M. N. Harakeh, A. Hirayama, C. R. Hoffman, M. Holl, A. Horvat, Á. Horváth, J. W. Hwang, T. Isobe, W. G. Jiang, J. Kahlbow, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, S. Kawase, S. Kim, K. Kisamori, T. Kobayashi, D. Körper, S. Koyama, I. Kuti, V. Lapoux, S. Lindberg, F. M. Marqués, S. Masuoka, J. Mayer, K. Miki, T. Murakami, M. Najafi, T. Nakamura, K. Nakano, N. Nakatsuka, T. Nilsson, A. Obertelli, K. Ogata, F. de Oliveira Santos, N. A. Orr, H. Otsu, T. Otsuka, T. Ozaki, V. Panin, T. Papenbrock, S. Paschalis, A. Revel, D. Rossi, A. T. Saito, T. Y. Saito, M. Sasano, H. Sato, Y. Satou, H. Scheit, F. Schindler, P. Schrock, M. Shikata, N. Shimizu, Y. Shimizu, H. Simon, D. Sohler, O. Sorlin, L. Stuhl, Z. H. Sun, S. Takeuchi, M. Tanaka, M. Thoennessen, H. Törnqvist, Y. Togano, T. Tomai, J. Tscheuschner, J. Tsubota, N. Tsunoda, T. Uesaka, Y. Utsuno, I. Vernon, H. Wang, Z. Yang, M. Yasuda, K. Yoneda and S. Yoshida: "First observation of 28O", Nature 620, 965–970 (2023)

11. V. Tripathi, S. Bhattacharya, E. Rubino, C. Benetti, J. F. Perello, S. L. Tabor, S. N. Liddick, P. C. Bender, M. P. Carpenter, J. J. Carroll, A. Chester, C. J. Chiara, K. Childers, B. R. Clark, B. P. Crider, J. T. Harke, B. Longfellow, R. S. Lubna, S. Luitel, T. H. Ogunbeku, A. L. Richard, S. Saha, N. Shimizu, O. A. Shehu, Y. Utsuno, R. Unz, Y. Xiao, S. Yoshida, and Yiyi Zhu: "β-decay of exotic P and S isotopes with neutron number near 28", Phys. Rev. C 106, 064314 (2022).

10. S. Yoshida: "NuclearToolkit.jl: A Julia package for nuclear structure calculations", Journal of Open Source Software, 7(79), 4694.

9. S. Yoshida and N. Shimizu: "Constructing approximate shell-model wavefunctions by eigenvector continuation", PTEP 2022 053D02 , arXiv:2105.08256.

8. N. Tsunoda, T. Otsuka, K. Takayanagi, N. Shimizu, T. Suzuki, Y. Utsuno, S. Yoshida, and H. Ueno:"The impact of nuclear shape on the emergence of the neutron dripline", Nature 587, 66-71 (2020).

7. S. Yoshida: "Non-parametric Bayesian approach to extrapolation problems in configuration interaction methods", Phys. Rev. C 102, 024305 (2020), arXiv:1907.04974 code

6. B. Abromeit, V. Tripathi, H. L. Crawford, S. N. Liddick, S. Yoshida, Y. Utsuno, P. C. Bender, B. P. Crider, R. Dungan, P. Fallon, K. Kravvaris, N. Larson, R. S. Lubna, A. O. Macchiavelli, T. Otsuka, C. J. Prokop, A. L. Richard, N. Shimizu, S. L. Tabor, and A. Volya: "β- decay of Tz = 11/2 isotopes 37Al and 39Si: Understanding Gamow Teller strength distribution in neutron rich nuclei", Phys. Rev. C 100, 014323 (2019).

5. S. Yoshida, N. Shimizu, T. Togashi, and T. Otsuka: "Uncertainty quantification in the nuclear shell model", Phys. Rev. C 98, 061301 (R) (2018), arXiv:1810.03263.

4. S. Yoshida, Y. Utsuno, N. Shimizu, and T. Otsuka: "Systematic shell-model study of β-decay properties and Gamow-Teller strength distributions in A ~ 40 neutron-rich nuclei", Phys. Rev. C 97, 054321 (2018). Erratum Phys. Rev. C 109, 029904 (2024)

3. S. Adachi, T. Kawabata, K. Minomo, T. Kadoya, N. Yokota, H. Akimune, T. Baba, H. Fujimura, M. Fuji- wara, Y. Funaki, T. Furuno, T. Hashimoto, K. Hatanaka, K. Inaba, Y. Ishii, M. Itoh, C. Iwamoto, K. Kawase, Y. Maeda, H. Matsubara, Y. Matsuda, H. Mat- suno, T. Morimoto, H. Morita, M. Murata, T. Nana- mura, I. Ou, S. Sakaguchi, Y. Sasamoto, R. Sawada, Y. Shimizu, K. Suda, A. Tamii, Y. Tameshige, M. Tsumura, M. Uchida, T. Uesaka, H. P. Yoshida, and S. Yoshida: "Systematic analysis of inelastic α scattering off self-conjugate A=4n nuclei", Phys. Rev. C 97, 014601 (2018).

2. T. Kawabata, Y. Fujikawa, T. Furuno, T. Goto, T. Hashimoto, M. Ichikawa, M. Itoh, N. Iwasa, Y. Kanada-En'yo, A. Koshikawa, S. Kubono, E. Miyawaki, M. Mizuno, K. Mizutani, T. Morimoto, M. Murata, T. Nanamura, S. Nishimura, S. Okamoto, Y. Sakaguchi, I. Sakata, A. Sakaue, R. Sawada, Y. Shikata, Y. Takahashi, D. Takechi, T. Takeda, C. Takimoto, M. Tsumura, K. Watanabe, and S. Yoshida: "Time-Reversal Measurement of the p -Wave Cross Sections of the 7 Be ( n , α ) 4 He Reaction for the Cosmological Li Problem", Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 052701 (2017).

1. V. Tripathi, R. S. Lubna, B. Abromeit, H. L. Crawford, S. N. Liddick, Y. Utsuno, P. C. Bender, B. P. Crider, R. Dungan, P. Fallon, K. Kravvaris, N. Larson, A. O. Macchiavelli, T. Otsuka, C. J. Prokop, A. L. Richard, N. Shimizu, S. L. Tabor, A. Volya, and S. Yoshida: "𝛽 decay of38,40Si (𝑇𝑧=+5,+6) to low-lying core excited states in odd-odd38,40P isotopes", Phys. Rev. C 95, 024308 (2017).

- Proceedings (Full list)

S.Yoshida, M. Kohno, T. Abe, T. Otsuka, N. Tsunoda, N. Shimizu: "Shell-Model Hamiltonians from Chiral Forces", JPS Conf. Proc. 23, 013014 (2018).
Takahiro Kawabata, Yuki Fujikawa, Tatsuya Furuno, Tatsuya Goto, Toshikazu Hashimoto, Masaya Ichikawa, Makoto Itoh, Naohito Iwasa, Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo, Ami Koshikawa, Shigeru Kubono, Eisuke Miyawaki, Masatoshi Mizuno, Keigo Mizutani, Takahiro Morimoto, Motoki Murata, Takuya Nanamura, Shunji Nishimura, Takuya Nanamura, Shintaro Okamoto, Yuichi Sakaguchi, Itsushi Sakata, Akane Sakaue, Ryo Sawada, Yuki Shikata, Yu Takahashi, Daiki Takechi, Tomoya Takeda, Chisato Takimoto, Miho Tsumura, Ken Watanabe and Sota Yoshida: "Direct measurement of the 7Be(n, α)4 He reaction cross sections for the cosmological Li problem", EPJ Web Conf., 163 (2017) 00028

- International conferences & workshops

-- (contributed)

S. Yoshida, N. Tsunoda, T. Abe, T. Otsuka, M. Kohno, T. Suzuki, "Spin-tensor decomposition of nuclear forces from chiral Effective Field Theory", YITP Long-term Workshop on Computational Advances in Nuclear and Hadron Physics (CANHP2015), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, September 28 - October 2 (second week), 2015.
S. Yoshida, Y. Utsuno, N. Shimizu, T. Otsuka, ``Shell-model description of beta-decay in $sd$-$pf$ shell region", The 15th CNS International Summer School (CNSSS16), RIKEN, Saitama, Japan, August 24 - 30, 2016.
S. Yoshida, "Shell evolution based on chiral nuclear forces", Progress in Ab Initio Techniques in Nuclear Physics, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC Canada, Feb. 28 - Mar. 3, 2017.
S. Yoshida, M. Kohno, T. Abe, T. Otsuka, N. Tsunoda, N. Shimizu, "Shell-model Hamiltonians from chiral forces", Ito International Research Center (IIRC) symposium, "Perspectives of the physics of nuclear structure" (PPNS), The University of Tokyo, November 1 - 4, 2017.
S. Yoshida, N. Shimizu, T. Togashi, T. Otsuka, "Uncertainty quantification in nuclear shell model", 5th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan, Waikoloa, Hawaii, October 23–27, 2018.
S. Yoshida, "Uncertainty quantification in nuclear shell model", Recent advances in nuclear structure physics 2018 (RANSP2018), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, November 29–December 3, 2018.
(+Poster) S. Yoshida, Non-parametric Bayesian approach to the extrapolation in configuration interaction methods, TRIUMF Theory Workshop 2019, Progress in Ab initio Techniques in Nuclear Physics, TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC Canada, Feb. 26 - Mar. 1, 2019.
S. Yoshida, "Towards inverse modeling problems in nuclear physics", The 18th CNS International Summer School (CNSSS19), RIKEN/UTokyo, Saitama/Tokyo, Japan, August 21 - 27, 2019.

-- (invited)

S. Yoshida: "Underlying uncertainties in configuration interaction methods", Nuclear Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, Exploring Simple Structural Patterns and the Dynamics of Nuclei, Colby-Sawyer College, 541 Main Street, New London, NH, US, June 16-21, 2019.
S. Yoshida: "Inverse modeling problem in nuclear structure physics", Bayesian Inference in Subatomic Physics - A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium, The House of William Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden, September 17-20, 2019. Web
S.Yoshida: "Learning from what we had disposed and an accelerator to “Machine Learning + nuclear physics”", [RIBF-ULIC-miniWS037] Combining Nuclear Theory and Machine Learning for fundamental studies and applications, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan, November 29-30, 2022. indico
S. Yoshida: "Emulator of shell-model calculations via eigenvector continuation", ESNT workshop Eigenvector continuation method in nuclear structure and reaction theory, CEA Saclay, France, May 31 (May 30 – June 2), 2023. Web
S. Yoshida: "Quantum computation of valence two-neutron systems towards solving full nuclear Hamiltonians", JOINT N3AS – iTHEMS MEETING ON QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE IN MULTIMESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS, RIKEN Campus, Wako, Saitama, Japan, June 17 (June 16 – 18), 2024.
S. Yoshida: "Towards Quantum Computation of Nuclear Many-body Problems", RIKEN - LBNL Workshop on Quantum Information Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US, Sep 3 – 6, 2024.
S. Yoshida: "Surrogate models for quantum many-body systems", Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories (RPMBT22), Kasuga Campus, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 23-27 September 2024.
S. Yoshida: "Surrogate models for In-medium Similarity Renormalization Group method", Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET)-10, Jiangwan Campus, Fudan University, China, 10-15 November 2024.
S. Yoshida: "Collaborations through TRIP: Emulators and Quantum Computing as examples", International symposium: TRIP Usecase: Nuclear Transmutation 2025, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan, March 10 (March 10 - 12), 2025.

- Thesis

Sota Yoshida, "Nuclear shell model based on chiral effective field theory", master's thesis, The University of Tokyo, Jan., 2017.

Sota Yoshida, "Uncertainty quantification in configuration interaction methods for nuclear many-body problems", Ph.D thesis, The University of Tokyo, Jan., 2020.

Seminars

1. The application of chiral NN and NNN force into valence shell-model", TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 7, 2017.

2. Shell-model interactions with chiral NN and NNN forces, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany, August 11, 2017.

3. Uncertainty Quantification in Nuclear Shell Model, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany, August 27, 2018.

4. (In Japanese) 核力に基づく殻模型計算の進展とUncertainty Quantification, 京都大学原子核理論研究室, 2018年11月16日.

5. Eigenpair emulator and preprocessing using eigenvector continuation, 北海道大学, 原子核理論研究室, 2021年5月20日.

6. NuclerToolkit.jl and surrogate models for In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group, FRIB/NSCL Nuclear Theory Seminar, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU), June 25, 2024. Talk on YouTube

7. Emulators of nuclear structure calculations and their Julia implementations, RIKEN Few-Body Systems Physics Laboratory , Oct. 23, 2024.

8. Quantum computing for Nuclear structure calculations, Kyoto Univ. Nuclear Theory Group, Dec. 6, 2024.

9. Emulators and quantum computing for nuclear structure theory, Nuclear Theory and Nuclear Astrophysics Group, Sun Yat-sen University, Mar. 28, 2025.

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