News
2023
(12.05) Jaewook and Taejoon received travel funds from Quantum Information Research Support Center at the SKKU to support her long-term visit to University of Wisconsin-Madison for international collaboration. Congratulations! (이재욱, 박태준, 성균관대학교 양자정보연구지원센터 신진연구인력 연수프로그램 연수생 선정! 2024년 University of Wisconsin-Madison 장기 파견 연수.)
(08.07) Hosung joined the research group of Yuan Ping at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a visiting professor for one year (미국 위스콘신 매디슨 대학 장기 파견, 국제 공동 연구 수행.)
(07.23) Taejoon, Jaewook, and Huijin participate in the Gordon Conference on Quantum Sensing, Swiss, and give poster presentations. Congratulations! (박태준, 박희진, 이재욱, 스위스 양자 센싱 Gordon conference 참석 및 포스터 발표 수행).
(07.01) Yonghyun Kwon joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome aboard! (권용현 학부 인턴 연구생으로 연구실 합류.)
(06.21) Our recent study on the MoTe2 interface is published at Surfaces and Interfaces (IF 6.137, 12.5%, Q1). Congratulations! (MoTe2 논문 Surfaces and Interfaces 저널 출판)
(05.30) Jaewook and Hosung participate in the BNW 2023, Montpellier, France (프랑스 몽펠리에 h-BN 워크샵 참석 및 발표).
(04.19) Hosung gave an invited talk at Konkuk University (건국대학교 물리학과 초청 발표).
(04.11) We organized a Symposium on Quantum Computing and Quantum Materials at Ajou University (아주대 50주년 기념 양자컴퓨터 및 양자물질 콜로퀴엄 시리즈 기획 및 주최).
(04.01) Hosung Seo joined the KIST Center of Quantum Information as an adjunct researcher (KIST 겸임 연구원 참여). KIST and our group started a new collaborative research project on quantum error corrections using the diamond NV centers. (양자잡음과 양자오류정정의 관계에 대한 KIST - 아주대 공동 연구 위탁 과제 착수.)
(03.24) Hosung gave an invited talk at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS 고등과학원 초청 세미나).
(03.07) Hosung gave an invited talk at the APS March Meeting in an invited symposium, entitled "Quantum Simulation of Coherent States of Matter". Congratulations! (미국 물리학회 March Meeting 초청 강연)
(02.24) Hosung visited the University of Chicago for pursuing an international collaboration on solid-state quantum information science (미국 시카고 대학 방문 및 국제 공동 연구 수행).
(02.21) Hosung gave an invited lecture on solid-state quantum information materials and devices at the applied physics academy hosted by the Korean Physical Society - Applied Physics Division. (한국물리학회 응용물리분과 주최 응용물리 아카데미 초정 강의)
(02.15) Congratulations! We received new research funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which will last for 5 years! (한국연구재단 - 중견연구자지원사업 선정).
(02. 09) Hosung visited Chiba University and delivered a talk on solid-state quantum technologies (아주대 - 일본 지바대학교 교류 프로그램 참여).
(01.30) Huijin joined the research group of Giulia Galli at the University of Chicago as a visiting student for one year. Wish you the best of luck! Congratulations! (박희진 미국 시카고 대학에서 1년간 해외 장기 파견 연수 수행.)
(01.27) Hosung gave an invited lecture at the POSTECH (포항공대 초청강의 수행).
2022
(11.09) Hosung gave an invited talk at the Department of Physics of Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea (이화여대 물리학과 초청 세미나 수행.)
(11.09) Hosung Seo gave an invited talk at the Molecular Foundry of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA (미국 로렌스 버클리 국립 연구소 초청 세미나 수행.)
(11.01) Huijin receives a travel fund from Quantum Information Research Support Center at the SKKU to support her long-term visit to the University of Chicago for international collaboration. Congratulations! (박희진, 성균관대학교 양자정보연구지원센터 신진연구인력 연수프로그램 연수생 선정)
(09.01) Jaewook Lee and Hyeonsu Kim join our group as Ph.D. students. Welcome aboard and congratulations! (이재욱 박사과정 진학, 김현수 석박통합과정 진학).
(08.19) Hyeonsu Kim and Huijin Park won the best poster presentation award at the 20th International Symposium on the Physics of Semiconductors and Applications (ISPSA 2022). Congratulations! (김현수, 박희진 ISPSA 학회 최우수 포스터 발표상 수상.)
(07.26) Jaewook's paper, "First-principles theory of extending the spin qubit coherence time in hexagonal boron nitride" is accepted for publication in npj 2D Materials and Applications. Congratulations! (이재욱, 2차원 물질 분야의 최고 권위지 중 하나인 npj 2D Mater. Appl. 논문 출판.)
(07.15) Huijin's paper, "Decoherence of nitrogen-vacancy spin ensembles in a nitrogen electron-nuclear spin bath in diamond" is accepted for publication in npj Quantum Information. Congratulations! (박희진, 양자정보분야 최고 권위지 npj Quantum Information 논문 출판.)
(07.17) The entire group participates the ISPSA 2022 meeting held in Jeju, Korea. Hosung gives an invited talk. Huijin and Taejoon give contributed talks. Our two undergraduate interns, Ujin and Hyeonsu give their first poster presentations. Congrats! (연구 그룹 전체 제주도 ISPSA 2022 참석 및 구두발표 및 포스터 발표 수행, 서호성 초청강연 수행)
(06.16) Hosung gave an invited talk at the DSQT 2022 conference held in Stockholm, Sweden. We all safely went back to Korea! (서호성, 스웨덴 스톡홀룸 DSQT 2022 워크샵 초청 강연 수행.)
(06.15) Huijin and Taejoon gave oral presentations at the DSQT 2022 conference held in Stockholm, Sweden (offline!). Great job! (박희진, 박태준, 스웨덴 스톡홀룸에서 개최된 DSQT 2022 워크샵에서 구두 발표 수행.)
(05.27) Hosung visited the IBS center of quantum nanoscience at Ehwa Womans University and gave an invited talk. (이화여대 IBS 초청 세미나 발표.)
(05.24) Huijin, Taejoon, and Hosung gave oral presentations at the MRS Spring meeting (online). Well done! (박희진, 박태준, 서호성, 미국 재료학회 (MRS) 구두 발표 수행.)
(04.20) Hosung gave two invited talks at the 2022 KPS spring meeting (online). (한국물리학회 초청발표 수행.)
(04.01) We are participating in a quantum information education center funded by NRF. Congrats! (양자정보과학 융합전문인력 양성센터 선정.)
(04.01) New research projects! We are participating in a collaborative research project on quantum sensing (main PI at KRISS) funded by IITP (양자센서 핵심원천 기술사업 선정.) Congrats!
(03.18) Huijin, Jaewook, Taejoon, and Hosung gave oral presentations at the APS March meeting (online). Good jobs! (박희진, 이재욱, 박태준, 미국 물리학회 APS March Meeting 구두발표 수행)
(01.03) Hyeonsu Kim joined our group as an undergraduate intern. Welcome aboard! (김현수 학생, 학부 인턴 참여)
2021
(11.01) Huijin Park won the best oral presentation award at the 2021 Korean Physical Society (KPS) Fall Meeting for her recent research study, entitled "Decoherence of Nitrogen-vacancy Spin Ensembles in Diamond in the Nitrogen Electron-nuclear Spin Bath." Congratulations! Way to go!! (박희진, 한국물리학회 최우수 구두 발표상 수상)
(11.01) Ujin Ko joined our group as an undergraduate intern. Welcome aboard! (고의진 학생, 학부 인턴 참여)
(10.21) Huijin, Jaewook, and Taejoon gave excellent oral presentations at the 2021 Korean Physical Society (KPS) Fall Meeting. Well done!
(09.20) Our paper, "First-principles predictions of out-of-plane group IV and V dimers as high-symmetry high-spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride", is published at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
(07.26) Donggyu Yim has completed his M.S. degree and graduated this year. He accepted a job offer from Samsung Electronics and started at the Samsung DIT center as a software engineer this summer. Congratulations and wish you all the best!
(07.01) New research project! We are now participating in a research project on developing quantum light sources based on low-dimensional materials under the NRF grant of Basic Research Laboratory for 3 years. (한국연구재단 기초연구실 지원사업, 극한 비선형과학 기초과학연구실). Congratulations! Way to go!
(02.22) Taejoon Park, one of our undergraduate interns, graduated this winter and joined our group as a graduate student. Congratulations and welcome aboard!
(02.22) Jooyong Bhang has completed his M.S. degree and graduated this year. Congratulations and wish you all the best! His thesis, entitled "First-principles predictions of carbon dimer defects as spin qubit candidates in hexagonal boron nitride", can be found here.
2020
(12.01) Sung-Hoon Kim joined our group as an undergraduate intern. Welcome aboard!
(08.13) Our paper, "Polarization and localization of single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride wrinkles", is published at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
(04.06) We finally get our new office at Woncheon 436-1! Congratulations!
(03.01 - 03.03) The whole group attended the APS March meeting, Denver, CO, USA. We went there but, unfortunately, the meeting was canceled due to the COVID-19 situation, so we had to come back and we couldn't give a talk. So bad for the students! By the way, it turned out that this cancellation of the APS meeting was the beginning of a series of cancellations of international meetings and conferences in the year of 2020. This three-day trip to Denver will be memorable to us for a long time!
2019
(11.28 - 11.30) Joo-yong, Dong-gyu, and Jaewook gave poster presentations at the ASIAN-22 electronic structure workshop held at the Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Excellent work!
(10.01) New research grant! We are now participating a collaborative research project on developing 5-qubit diamond based quantum computers in collaboration with KIST (양자정보연구단) under the NRF grant of development of fundamental technologies for 3+2 years. (한국연구재단 원천기술개발 과제 - 양자컴퓨터). Congratulations! Way to go!
(09.25-09.27) Huijin, Dong-gyu, and Jaewook gave poster presentations and Hosung gave an invited talk at the IBS conference on Quantum Nanoscience held in Seoul, Korea. Great job!
(08.12) Hosung gave an invited lecture at the 1st summer school of quantum information science and technology. Congrats!
(07.21 - 07.26) Hosung gave an invited talk at the 30th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS-30) held at Seattle, Washington. Congratulations!
(07.15 - 07.20) Hosung visited the Yuan Ping's group at the University of California, Santa Cruz for on-going collaborations. It was so good to see you again Yuan! Let's keep in touch!
(06.04 - 06.05) Jaewook, Dong-gyu, Joo-yong, and Hosung participated in the 15th KIAS workshop on electronic structure.
(05.29) Huijin gave a poster presentation at the IBS workshop on 'Quantum Spins at the Nanoscale - Recent Theoretical Advances'. Great job!
(05.24) Hosung gave an invited lecture on the NV center and quantum computation at the 8th school of mesoscopic physics (https://www.apctp.org/plan.php/meso2019). One could download the lecture file at here.
(04.22) We participate in organizing the International Workshop on Solid-state Qubits (IWSQ-1) to be held at the Daejeon convention center on April 22 - 24.
(04.10) Our recent paper on spin coherence in 2-dimensional materials is published at NPJ Computational Materials! Congrats!
(04.01) New research grant! We are now participating a research project on developing diamond-based quantum sensors in collaboration with KRISS (한국표준과학연구원) under the IITP grant of development of fundamental technologies for 4 years. (IITP 원천기술개발 과제- 양자 센서). Congratulations! Way to go!
(02.22) Joo-Yong Bhang (방주용) received the Ajou presidential award for his graduation! Congratulations! Way to go!
(01.04) Jae-Wook Lee (이재욱) and Tae-Cheol Oh (오태철) joined the group as undergraduate research interns. Welcome!
2018
(12.04) A book chapter titled "First-principles modeling of interface effects in oxides", for which Hosung participated in as a co-author is now published. The chapter can be found in the 2nd edition of Handbook of Materials Modeling (Springer, 2019). Congrats!
(11.08) Dong-Gyu received the best award from the presentation competition sponsored by the college of nature science of the Ajou university, Korea. Congrats! Way to go!
(10.25) Joo-Yong Bhang received a poster award from the Korean Physical Society at the KPS Fall meeting! Congrats! Way to go!
(09.27) Our paper on the role of point defects in enhancing the conductivity of BiVO4 is accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials. Congrats!
(08.01) Hee-jin Park (박희진) joined the group after finishing her summer program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Welcome!
(07.01) Joo-Yong Bhang (방주용) and Dong-Gyu Ihm (임동규) joined the group. Welcome!
(07.01) Our HPC cluster, IdeaMaker, got more nodes (funding from NRF). Now, IdeaMaker has 16 nodes! Congratulations!
(06.01) Our Basic Research Laboratory program (BRL, 기초과학연구소) is accepted by NRF! Congratulations! We are now part of the laboratory of solid-state qubits.
(03.01) Doo-Young Kwak (곽두영) joined the group. Welcome!
(03.01) We received a research funding from National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which will last for 5 years! It is the Young Researcher Program (신진연구자지원사업). Congratulations!
(02.30) With financial supports from the Ajou physics department, Ajou University, and NRF, we built a 4-node HPC cluster, named "IdeaMaker (IDM)".
2017
(09.15) We received a research funding from National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which will for 1 year! It is the Young Researcher Program (생애 첫 연구). Congratulations!
(09.01) We started a brand-new research group at Ajou University, Suwon, Korea. Best wishes!