Publications

Publication list

+ co-first author

* corresponding author

QMI Lab Publications (Mar 2026 ~ )

Earlier Publications ( ~ Feb 2026)

24. Discovery of high-temperature charge order and time-reversal symmetry-breaking in the kagome superconductor YRu3Si2

P.Kral,  J. N. Graham, V. Sazgari, I. Plokhikh,  A.  Lukovkina,  O.  Gerguri,  I.  Bialo,  A.  Doll,  L.  Martinelli,  J.  Oppliger,  S.  S.  Islam,  M.  Spitaler,  K.  Wang,  M.  Salamin,  H.  Luetkens,  R.  Khasanov,  M.  V.  Zimmermann,  J.-X.  Yin,  Ziqiang  Wang,  J.  Chang,  B.  Monserrat,  D.  Gawryluk,  F.  O.  von Rohr,  Sun-Woo Kim*,  and  Z. Guguchia*

Nature Communications 17, 1121 (2026)

23. Anharmonic phonons in the high-temperature phase of KNiCl3

M. J. Gutmann, K. Wang, Sun-Woo Kim, B. Monserrat, and G. L. Pascut

Structural Dynamics 12, 054103 (2025)

22. Origin of competing charge density waves in kagome metal ScV6Sn6

K. Wang, S. Chen, Sun-Woo Kim* and B. Monserrat*

Nature Communications 15, 10428 (2024)

21. Non-Fermi liquid to charge-transfer Mott insulator in flat bands of copper-doped lead apatite

Sun-Woo Kim*, K. Haule, G. L. Pascut* and B. Monserrat*

Materials Horizons 11, 5622 (2024) –Featured as a Materials Horizons HOT Paper

20. Stacking-dependent van Hove singularity shifts in three-dimensional charge density waves of kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs)

C. K. Barman+, Sun-Woo Kim+ and Y. Kim*

Current Applied Physics 68, 31 (2024)

19. On the dynamical stability of copper-doped lead apatite

Sun-Woo Kim*, K. Wang, S. Chen, L. J. Conway, G. L. Pascut, I. Errea, C. J. Pickard, and B. Monserrat*

npj Computational Materials 10, 16 (2024)

18. Microscopic theory of colour in lutetium hydride

Sun-Woo Kim*, L. J. Conway, C. J. Pickard, G. L. Pascut, and B. Monserrat*

Nature Communications 14, 7360 (2023)

17. Replica Higher-Order Topology of Hofstadter Butterflies in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Sun-Woo Kim, S. Jeon, M. J. Park*, and Y. Kim*

npj Computational Materials 9, 152 (2023)

16. Monolayer Kagome Metals AV3Sb5

Sun-Woo Kim+, H. Oh+, E.-G. Moon* and Y. Kim*

Nature Communications 14, 591 (2023)

15. Circular dichroism of emergent chiral stacking orders in quasi-one-dimensional charge density waves

Sun-Woo Kim, H.-J. Kim, S. Cheon, and T.-H. Kim

Physical Review Letters 128, 046401 (2022)

14. Spontaneous folding growth of graphene on h-BN

X. Fan, Sun-Woo Kim, J. Tang, X. Huang, Z. Lin, L. Zhu, L. Li, J.-H. Cho, and C. Zeng

Nano Letters 21, 2033 (2021)

13. Low-energy electrodynamics of Dirac semimetal phases in the doped Mott insulator Sr2IrO4

Sun-Woo Kim, M. Kang, and S. Cheon

Physical Review B 103, 045116 (2021)

12. Topological features of ground states and topological solitons in generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models using generalized time-reversal, particle-hole, and chiral symmetries

S.-H. Han, S.-G. Jeong, Sun-Woo Kim, T.-H. Kim, and S. Cheon

Physical Review B 102, 235411 (2020)

11. Two-dimensional chiral stacking orders in quasi-one-dimensional charge density waves

Sun-Woo Kim, H.-J. Kim, S. Cheon, and T.-H. Kim

Physical Review B 102, 121408(R) (2020)

10. Nonsymmorphic Dirac semimetal and carrier dynamics in the doped spin-orbit-coupled Mott insulator Sr2IrO4

J.W. Han+, Sun-Woo Kim+, W. S. Kyung, C. Kim, G. Cao, X. Chen, S. D. Wilson, S. Cheon*, and J. S. Lee*

Physical Review B 102, 041108(R) (2020)

9. Competing charge density wave and antiferromagnetism of metallic atom wires in GaN(10-10) and ZnO(10-10)

Y.-G. Kang, Sun-Woo Kim and J.-H. Cho

Physical Review B 96, 235416 (2017)

8. Microscopic mechanism of tunable band gap in potassium doped few-layer black phosphorus

Sun-Woo Kim, H. Jung, H.-J. Kim, J.-H. Choi, S.-H. Wei, and J.-H. Cho

Physical Review B 96, 075416 (2017)

7. Comment on ‘Quasi-One-Dimensional Metal-Insulator Transitions in Compound Semiconductor Surfaces

Sun-Woo Kim, Y.-G. Kang, H.-J. Kim, and J.-H. Cho

Physical Review Letters 118, 239601 (2017)

6. Origin of the metal-insulator transition of indium atom wires on Si(111)

Sun-Woo Kim and J.-H. Cho

Physical Review B 93, 241408(R) (2016)

5. Nature of the Insulating Ground State of 5d Postperovskite CaIrO3

Sun-Woo Kim, C. Liu, H.-J. Kim, J.-H. Lee, Y. Yao, K.-M. Ho, and Jun-Hyung Cho

Physical Review Letters 115, 096401 (2015)

4. Contrasting interedge superexchange interactions of graphene nanoribbons embedded in h-BN and graphane

Sun-Woo Kim, H.-J. Kim, J.-H. Choi, R. H. Scheicher, and J.-H. Cho

Physical Review B 92, 035443 (2015)

3. Equivalence of electronic and mechanical stresses in structural phase stabilization: A case study of indium wires on Si(111)

Sun-Woo Kim, H.-J. Kim, F. Ming, Y. Jia, C. Zeng, J.-H. Cho, and Z. Zhang

Physical Review B 91, 174434 (2015)

2. Antiferromagnetic ordering of dangling-bond electrons at the stepped Si(001) surface

J.-H. Lee, Sun-Woo Kim, and J.-H. Cho

The Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 104702 (2013)

     1. Contribution of van der Waals interactions to the adsorption energy of C2H2, C2H4, and C6H6 on Si(100)

      Sun-Woo Kim, J.-H. Lee, H.-J. Kim, and J.-H. Cho

      Chemical Physics Letters 557, 159 (2013)