Professor Myungshik Kim is working on the foundations and applications of quantum optics and quantum information processing. He is known for his proposals on the generation, characterization and control of nonclassical quantum states in various physical systems including photons, atoms and mechanical oscillators. After completing his PhD and postdoctoral work at Imperial College, he returned to his native country, Korea where he built up the first quantum optics group that has grown to a considerable research network of quantum physics throughout Korean universities. He was then awarded a Humboldt fellowship to work at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, where he started working with quantum optics experimentalists. While he was at Queen’s, he published papers on the quantum optical implementation of information processors and the foundations of quantum physics. Many contributions by him are related to his vision to bridge our understanding of quantum mechanics in atoms and optics to a wider range of physical systems. His work on macroscopic superposition and nonlocality has greatly enhanced our understanding in quantum mechanics of a complex physical system. The quantum-mechanical commutation relation between two canonical variables should be modified at the Planck length scale according to the relativity theory. Myungshik Kim and his co-workers came up with a proposal to test the minimum length scale physics using a nano-mechanical oscillator interacting with a light field. He has been elected to a membership of the Royal Irish Academy for his contribution in theoretical quantum information and quantum optics. He was a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2015. He also received the 2016 Hoam Science Prize.
- · Chair in Quantum Information Science, Korea Institute of Advanced Studies, Korea, since 2013
- · Professor, Imperial College London, Director, Centre for Excellence in QuEST, Imperial College, UK, since 2010
- · Professor, Queen’s University, UK, 2000-2010
- · Humboldt Fellow, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany, 1997-1998
- · 2022 Karl Friedrich Siemens Award by the Humboldt Foundation
- · 2016 HOAM Science Prize
- · 2015 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- · 2007 Elected membership of the Royal Irish Academy
- · 1997 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
- · 1994 Elected Associate membership of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
Publications at KIAS
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Snapshotting quantum dynamics at multiple time points
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2024 -
Quantum error cancellation in photonic systems: Undoing photon losses
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2024 -
Simulating photosynthetic energy transport on a photonic network
NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION, 2024 -
Gaussian boson sampling with click-counting detectors
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2024 -
Gaussian boson sampling at finite temperature
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2024 -
T-depth-optimized quantum search with quantum data-access machine
QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2024 -
Non-Gaussian entanglement criteria for atomic homodyne detection
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2023 -
Demonstrating Quantum Microscopic Reversibility Using Coherent States of Light
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2022 -
Faster Born probability estimation via gate merg- ing and frame optimisation
QUANTUM, 2022 -
Noise thresholds for classical simulability of nonlinear boson sampling
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2022 -
Polynomial T-depth quantum solvability of noisy binary linear problem: from quantum-sample preparation to main computation
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 2022 -
Many-body probes for quantum features of spacetime
AVS Quantum Science, 2022 -
Quantum solvability of noisy linear problems by divide-and-conquer strategy
QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2022 -
Generating Haar-Uniform Randomness Using Stochastic Quantum Walks on a Photonic Chip
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2022 -
Reversing Lindblad Dynamics via Continuous Petz Recovery Map
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2022 -
Optimal teleportation via noisy quantum channels without additional qubit resources
NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION, 2021 -
Violating the Leggett-Garg inequalities with classical light
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2021 -
Quantum one-time tables for unconditionally secure qubit- commitment
QUANTUM, 2021 -
A massive test
NATURE PHYSICS, 2021 -
Field-gradient measurement using a Stern-Gerlach atomic interferometer with butterfly geometry
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2020 -
Witnessing the nonclassical nature of gravity in the presence of unknown interactions
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2020 -
Condition on the Renyi Entanglement Entropy under Stochastic Local Manipulation
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2020 -
Completely Positive Divisibility Does Not Mean Markovianity
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2019 -
Experimental Test of Contextuality in Quantum and Classical Systems
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2019 -
Experimental quantum fast hitting on hexagonal graphs
NATURE PHOTONICS, 2018 -
Harvesting Multiqubit Entanglement from Ultrastrong Interactions in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2017 -
Quantum limits to gravity estimation with optomechanics
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2017 -
Nonequilibrium dressing in a cavity with a movable reflecting mirror
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2017 -
Nonclassical-state generation in macroscopic systems via hybrid discrete-continuous quantum measurements
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2016 -
Recurrent Delocalization and Quasiequilibration of Photons in Coupled Systems in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2016 -
Phonon arithmetic in a trapped ion system
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2016 -
Quantum steering of multimode Gaussian states by Gaussian measurements: monogamy relations and the Peres conjecture
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL, 2015 -
Cavity-assisted energy relaxation for quantum many-body simulations
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 2015 -
Quantum non-Gaussianity witnesses in phase space
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2014 -
Experimental demonstration of delayed-choice decoherence suppression
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2014
Selected Publications
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Experimental quantum fast hitting on hexagonal graphs
NATURE PHOTONICS, 12(12), 754, 2018 -
Harvesting Multiqubit Entanglement from Ultrastrong Interactions in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. v.119(18), 183602. 2017 -
Quantum limits to gravity estimation with optomechanics
PHYSICAL REVIEW A. v.96(4), 043824. 2017 -
Nonequilibrium dressing in a cavity with a movable reflecting mirror
PHYSICAL REVIEW D. v.96(4), 045007. 2017 -
Gravitational effects in quantum mechanics
Contemp. Phys. DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2016.1153290 (2016). -
Free nano-object Ramsey interferometry for large quantum superpositions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143003 (2016) -
Quantum and classical phases in optomechanics
Phys.Rev. A 93, 063862 (2016) -
Probing anharmonicity of a quantum oscillator in an optomechanical cavity
Phys.Rev. A 93, 052306 (2016) -
Tolerance in the Ramsey interfererence of a trapped nanodiamond
Phys.Rev. A 93, 043852 (2016) -
Recurrent delocalization and quasiequilibration of photons in coupled systems in circuit quantum electrodynamics
Phys. Rev. Lett.116, 153601 (2016) -
Universal continuous-variable state orthogonalizer and qubit generator
Phys.Rev.Lett. 116,110501 (2016) -
Burning and graphitization of optically levitated nanodiamonds in vacuum
Scientific Reports 6, 21633 (2016) -
Photonic Maxwell’s demon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 050401 (2016) -
Nonclassical-state generation in macroscopic systems via hybrid discrete-continuous quantum measurements
PHYSICAL REVIEW A 93, 053818 (2016) -
Phonon arithmetic in a trapped ion system
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7, 11420 (2016). -
Cavity-assisted energy relaxation for quantum many-body simulations
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, v.337 (2015) 66-70 -
Quantum steering of multimode Gaussian states by Gaussian measurements: monogamy relations and the Peres conjecture
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL, v.48 no.13 (2015) 135301 -
Quantum non-Gaussianity witnesses in phase space
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, v.90 no.1 (2014) 013810 -
Experimental demonstration of delayed-choice decoherence suppression
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, v.5 (2014) 4522
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