June 2024

• Our paper ["Intrinsic Magnon Orbital Hall Effect in Honeycomb Antiferromagnets," Nano Lett. 24, 5968 (2024)] has been featured in several media such as Donga Science and Sedaily.

February 2024

• Our paper ["Emergence of stable meron quartets in twisted magnets," Nano Lett. 24, 74 (2023)] has been featured in several media such as Veritas-α, Donga Science and TechWorld.

November 2023

• Our project on ferrimagnetic spintronics funded by the Brain Pool Plus Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea has been selected as one of the "2023년 국가연구개발 우수성과 100선".

September 2023

• Our paper ["Grasping through dynamic weaving with entangled closed loops," Nat. Commun. 14, 4633 (2023)] has been featured in several media.

January 2022

• Our paper "Ferrimagnetic spintronics" published in Nature Materials has been featured in several media including enewstoday and veritas-alpha. 

November 2021

• Our paper "Superluminal-like magnon propagation in antiferromagnetic NiO at nanoscale distances" published in Nature Nanotechnology in collaboration with Kyung-Jin Lee at KAIST and Hyunsoo Yang at NUS  has been featured in several media including enewstoday and dongascience. 

June 2021

• Prof. Se Kwon Kim has an interview with the news paper Sedaily. The articles can be found here. 

June 2020

• Our paper "Distinct handedness of spin wave across the compensation temperatures of ferrimagnets" published in Nature Materials has been featured in several media including inews24 and The Korea Industry Daily.

August 2019

• The award of Young Investigator Grant of Prof. Se Kwon Kim (left in the figure) at UKC2019 has been featured in the Maeil Business Newspaper (written in Korean).

December 2018

• Our paper "Nonlocal Spin Transport Mediated by a Vortex Liquid in Superconductors" has been highlighted by the magazine Superconductor Week! Here is the excerpt:

Researchers with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Missouri, and Ohio State University have proposed a new method for spin transport that transfers information from spins to more robust superconductors vortices (doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.187203).

October 2018

• Our paper "Nonlocal Spin Transport Mediated by a Vortex Liquid in Superconductors" published in Physical Review Letters has been highlighted by the magazine Physics in the article "Synopsis: Giving Vortices a Spin"! Here is the excerpt:

The spintronic vision of the future is one where information is encoded in the spins of electrons or other particles. But a major hurdle preventing the realization of this vision is the fact that spins don’t travel very well: they lose the information they encode through scattering after moving as little as a few nanometers through a material. A new proposal for spin transport could overcome this problem by transferring information from spins to more robust superconductor vortices.

Vortices are small regions in a superconductor where the current flows around in a circle. These so-called topological defects, which form by thermal fluctuations and also by exposure to a magnetic field, are typically considered a nuisance, as they introduce resistance when they move through the superconductor. However, Se Kwon Kim from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and colleagues have a plan to resuscitate the reputation of vortices by using them as information couriers.

December 2016

• Our paper "Mechanical Actuation of Magnetic Domain-Wall Motion" published in Physical Review Letters has been covered by the magazine physicsworld.com in the article "Flash Physics: LIGO resumes its search, sound moves magnetic domains, asteroid is tiny and bright"! Here is the excerpt:

Sound waves could be used to move magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials – according to calculations done by Se Kwon Kim, Daniel Hill and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak at the University of California, Los Angeles. The effect, which has yet to be verified in the lab, could be used to generate magnetic solitons in insulators and could even find use in racetrack memories that store data in magnetic domain walls. The trio looked at a 1D magnetic wire in which the magnetization tends to point along the direction of the wire. The domain walls, therefore, are regions along the wire where the magnetization rotates out of the direction of the wire to achieve a reversal in the magnetization direction. The trio’s calculations focussed on quantized transverse vibrations – called phonons – that can travel along the wire. These phonons can be circularly polarized (and carry angular momentum) or linearly polarized (carrying no angular momentum). The calculations show that a domain wall can be moved by circularly polarized phonons, which exert a torque on the wall when they encounter it. More surprisingly, the research also suggests that linearly polarized phonons will move a domain wall in an antiferromagnetic wire by simply transferring linear momentum to the wall. The research is described in Physical Review Letters.