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Fundamentals and applications of statistical physics
Statistical physics bridges the gap between macroscopic and microscopic worlds, which originated in attempts to explain how the irreversible macroscopic behaviors can be reconciled with the reversible microscopic Hamiltonian equations of motion, in other words, why the entropy increases and how the direction of time arrow becomes certain. Statistical physics aims at a fundamental understanding of how the ...
The top 10 R&D research achievement of KAIST.
Research done by Professor was selected as one of the top 10 R&D research achievement of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Sunghan recieved an award.
Sunghan received a young statistical physicists award from Spring meeting of Korean Physical Society. Congrats!
2019/02/15 Sunghan graduated with Ph.D. Congratulations!
Sunghan received a Ph.D. with the thesis "A study on the effects of shapes and interactions of objects in the stochastic dynamical systems". He also received an excellent dissertation award along with a scholarship celebrating Prof. Jung H. Shin.
Like-charge attractions
Minryeong and Sunghan published a collaborative work on like-charge interactions mediated by rodlike counterions as equally-contributed first authors in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Shape of ion does matter
A theoretical study using statistical field theory and extensive Monte Carlo simulations predicts the existence of like-charge attraction in the presence of rodlike counterions, surprisingly enough, even in the mean-field regime where it has been known for more than hundred years that no attractions occur.
Welcome dinner for new members
After the first group meeting in summer break 2018, we had a welcome dinner for Myeongseon, Kyungjun, Hyogeon in a Japanese restaurant ¡®Su:m¡¯
Random target searching
Random target searching for multiple searchers is non-trivial even for non-interacting searchers because of its fundamental statistical nature arising from the order statistics. We are interested in extending this problem to much more complicated but important case such as interacting searchers.
Happy birthday to our lord Darth Vader :)
Quantum measurement engine
According to the second law of thermodynamics, heat engines operating at a single-temperature are impossible. Prof. Yi and Prof. Kim, however, proposed a quantum engine that operates at a single temperature. In sharp contrast to information heat engines such as a Szilard engine, a feedback control is not required.
First Ph.D. thesis defense in our group
On November 30, Sunghan successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation defense evaluation. Big, Big congratulations to Sunghan! You did excellent jobs!
HIGHLIGHTS
- 2025/01/09 Byeongguk published an article in Phys. Rev. E
- 2024/09/03 Hyogeon published an article in Phys. Rev. E
- 2024/01/23 Byeongguk published an article in Journal of Chemical Physics
- 2024/01/04 Byeongguk published an article in Phys. Rev. E
- 2023/06/28 Professor published an article in Phys. Rev. E
- 2022/10/13 Hyogeon published an article in Journal of the Korean Physical Society
NEWS & NOTICE
- 2025/04/23 - Byeongguk gave a talk at the 2025 KPS Spring Meeting, Daejeon.
- 2025/02/24 Hyeonsoo joined our group as a graduate student. Welcome!
- 2024/11/22 - Byeongguk gave a poster presentation at the NSPCS 2024, KIAS.
- 2024/11/22 - Hyogeon gave a poster presentation at the NSPCS 2024, KIAS.
- 2023/08/27 - Byeongguk gave a talk at the 2023 KPS Fall Meeting, Changwon.
- 2023/08/27 - Hyogeon gave a talk at the 2023 KPS Fall Meeting, Changwon.
