Minhyuk Kim

EDUCATION

Integrated Master - Ph.D. Program, Physics (September 2015 ~ February 2022)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
Thesis: Implementations and Applications of Three-Dimensional Rydberg Atom Assemblies. (Advisor : Jaewook Ahn)

B.S., Physics (August 2015)
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

TEACHING & TUTORING

Teaching Assistant
General Physics Laboratory I (PH151) (September 2015 ~ December 2020)
General Physics Laboratory II (PH152) (September 2016 ~ December 2020)
Research and Education Program of Korea Science Academy (March 2021 ~ December 2021)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Associate
Quantum computation and simulation with large-scale Rydberg atomic systems (March. 2022 ~ current ).

Research Assistant
Adiabatic quantum computation with Rydberg atoms (2021 ~ 2022).
Quantum dynamics of three-dimensional Rydberg atomic systems (2018 ~ 2020).
Ultrafast coherent control of atomic systems (2016 ~ 2018).

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

Military Service at ROK Army (March 2011 ~ December 2012).

OUTREACH ACTIVITY

Reviewer of Physical Review Letters (APS)

PUBLICATIONS

Seokho Jeong, Minhyuk Kim, Minki Hhan, and Jaewook Ahn, “Quantum Programming of the Satisfiability Problem with Rydberg Atom Graphs,” arXiv:2302.14369.

Minhyuk Kim, Jaewook Ahn, Yunheung Song, Jongchul Moon, and Heejeong Jeong, “Quantum computing with Rydberg atom graphs,” J. Kor. Phys. Soc. (2023).

Andrew Byun*, Minhyuk Kim*, and Jaewook Ahn, “Finding the maximum independent sets of Platonic graphs using Rydberg atoms," PRX Quantum 3, 030305 (2022). (co-first author)

Seokho Jeong, Xiao-Feng Shi, Minhyuk Kim, and Jaewook Ahn, “Rydberg wire gates for universal quantum computation," Frontiers in Physics 10, 875673 (2022).

Minhyuk Kim, Kangheun Kim, Jaeyong Hwang, Eun-Gook Moon, and Jaewook Ahn, “Rydberg Quantum Wires for Maximum Independent Set Problems," Nature Physics (2022).

Daryl Ryan Chong, Minhyuk Kim, Jaewook Ahn, and Heejeong Jeong, "Machine learning identification of symmetrized base states of Rydberg atoms," Frontiers of Physics 17, 12504 (2021).

Yunheung Song, Minhyuk Kim, Hansub Hwang, Woojun Lee, and Jaewook Ahn, "Quantum simulation of Cayley-tree Ising Hamiltonians with three-dimensional Rydberg atoms," Physical Review Research 3, 013286 (2021).

Minhyuk Kim, Yunheung Song, Jaewan Kim, and Jaewook Ahn, "Quantum Ising Hamiltonian Programming in Trio, Quartet, and Sextet Qubit Systems," PRX Quantum 1, 020323 (2020).

Hanlae Jo, Yunheung Song, Minhyuk Kim, and Jaewook Ahn, "Rydberg Atom Entanglements in the Weak Coupling Regime," Physical Review Letters 124, 033603 (2020).

Woojun Lee, Minhyuk Kim, Hanlae Jo, Yunheung Song, and Jaewook Ahn, "Coherent and dissipative dynamics of entangled quantum system of Rydberg atoms," Physical Review A 99, 043404 (2019).

Hyosub Kim, Minhyuk Kim, Woojun Lee, Jaewook Ahn, “Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm for tweezer-trap atom arrangements,” Optics Express 27, 2184 (2019).

Minhyuk Kim, Kyungtae Kim, Dewen Cao, Fang Gao, Feng Shuang, and Jaewook Ahn, "Ultrafast spatial coherent control methods for transition pathway resolving spectroscopy of atomic rubidium," Optics Express 26, 1324 (2018).

Daehoon Han, Kanghee Lee, Hanlae Jo, Yunheung Song, Minhyuk Kim, and Jaewook Ahn, "Terahertz polarization spectroscopy in the near-field zone of a sub-wavelength metal slit," Optics Express 24(19), 21276-21285 (2016).

INVITED TALKS

“Quantum computing of combinatorial optimizations with Rydberg atoms,” Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan, 2023.01.12

“Rydberg atom arrays for quantum computing of combinatorial optimization,” 2022 KPS Fall meeting, Busan, Korea, 2022.10.21

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

(as a presenter)

Minhyuk Kim and Jaewook Ahn, “Quantum dynamics of inter-graph Rydberg atom interactions,” APS March Meeting 2023, 2023.03.05~2023.03.10.

Minhyuk Kim, Kangheun Kim, and Jaewook Ahn, "Atomic Quantum Wires in Ising-spin Chain Models," 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2021, pp. 1-2.

Minhyuk Kim, Yunheung Song, Jaewan Kim, and Jaewook Ahn, "Rydberg-atom quantum simulator measures quantum-Ising eigenspectra of non-isomorphic graphs of up to six qubits," 2020 KPS Fall meeting, 2020.11.04~2020.11.06

Minhyuk Kim, Haeun Sun, Yunheung Song, and Jaewook Ahn, "Progress towards a 100-qubit Rydberg quantum simulator," F6.04, 2019 KPS Fall meeting, 2019.10.23~2019.10.25

Woojun Lee, Minhyuk Kim, Hanlae Jo, Yunheung Song, and Jaewook Ahn, "Quantum Few-body Dynamics of Rydberg Atom Clusters," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2019), paper FM2A.7.

Minhyuk Kim, Kyungtae Kim, Dewen Cao, Woojun Lee, Hyosub Kim, Feng Shuang, Fang Gao, and Jaewook Ahn, "Doppler-free coherent-control spectroscopy of atomic rubidium fine structures with a colliding pair of shaped ultrafast pulses," B5.05, 2017 KPS Fall Meeting, 2017.10.25-2017.10.27

MinHyuk Kim, Kyungtae Kim, Woojun Lee, Hyosub Kim , and Jaewook Ahn ,"Doppler-free spectroscopy of the atomic rubidium fine structure using ultrafast spatial coherent control method," B6.00009, 5-9 June, DAMOP 2017, Sacramento, CA, USA