Publications

This page lists publications produced by the Watanabe Group at HKUST. For a complete list of Prof. Watanabe's publications including earlier work, see Google Scholar, arXiv, or the PDF CV.

Asterisk denotes corresponding author. Watanabe Group members at the time of publication are bolded.

Preprints

  1. S. Watanabe, Y. Motome, H. Watanabe*, Monte Carlo Study of the Phase Transition of the XY Model on a Diamond Lattice, arXiv:2604.17939.
  2. S. Watanabe, Y. Motome, H. Watanabe*, Topological Phase Transitions and Their Thermodynamic Fate in Arbitrary-S Pyrochlore Spin Ice, arXiv:2604.04346.
  3. S. Watanabe, Y. Motome, H. Watanabe*, Continuous crossover between high-pressure ice phases VII and X driven by monopole screening: a model study, arXiv:2603.19620.
  4. S. Watanabe, Y. Motome, H. Watanabe*, Dualities and Topological Classification of the S=1 Pyrochlore Spin Ice, arXiv:2603.03852.
  5. C.-g. Oh, H. Watanabe, N. Tsuji*, Role of Quantum Geometry in the Competition between Higgs Mode and Quasiparticles in Third-Harmonic Generation of Superconductors, arXiv:2512.01200.
  6. S. Watanabe, H. Watanabe*, Gauge-invariant electromagnetic responses in superconductors, arXiv:2501.13722.
  7. S. Watanabe, H. Watanabe*, A gauge-invariant formulation of optical responses in superconductors, arXiv:2410.18679.

Refereed Papers

  1. S. Ono, R. Masaoka, H. Watanabe, H. C. Po*, Frustration-free free fermions, Phys. Rev. Research 8, 023171 (2026).
  2. R. Masaoka, S. Ono, H. C. Po, H. Watanabe*, Frustration-free fermionic systems: Finite-size scaling and band topology, Phys. Rev. B 113, 195120 (2026).