NEWS

2025. 08. 04. We are thrilled to announce that our group has been awarded a new NRF Quantum Technology Grant
to develop an optical tweezer array of ultracold polar molecules for scalable quantum computing.

We are now recruiting motivated graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to join in this adventure - see the "Positions" page for details.

우리 연구실이 한국연구재단 양자과학기술 인적기반조성사업에 선정되어
광집게 합성 기반 쌍극성 분자 양자 컴퓨팅 플랫폼을 새롭게 개발합니다.

함께 도전할 대학원생 및 박사후연구원을 모집하오니, 자세한 내용은 "Positions" 페이지를 확인해주세요.

2024. 11. 4. Lab outing: Gyeongju World!
(Yes, we rode the Draken)

2023. 10. 30. The Vice Minister of Science and ICT of Korea visits the lab.

2024. 3. 27. ...and fermionic Na40K Feshbach molecules!

2023. 10. 19. ...and our first degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture of Na-40K!
Yes, our machine can produce dual BECs and also BECs immersed in a degenerate Fermi gases : )

2023. 8. 3. We now have laser-cooled fermions in our main chamber - our first 40K MOT!

2023. 3. Group outing - cherry blossom season (벚꽃 나들이)

2023. 2. A dual BEC of 23Na-41K

23Na BEC 41K BEC

2022. 10. Graduate student Sungjun Lee is awarded the "outstanding presentation award (oral)" at the 2022 Korean Physics Society Spring Meeting. Congratulations, Sungjun!

2022. 9. 30. First 41K MOT. We are now dual-species!

2022. 7. 13. First BEC @ POSTECH!!!
(포항에서 가장 '시원한' 곳은 우리 연구실!)

2022. 7. Graduate student Sungjun Lee is awarded the prestigious "Hyundai Motor Chung-Mong Goo Fellowship." Congratulations, Sungjun!

2022. 5. Graduate student Yoonsoo Kim is awarded the "outstanding presentation award (poster)" at the 2022 Korean Physics Society Spring Meeting. Congratulations, Yoonsoo!

2021. 8. 6. Our experiment is growing in size.

2021. 3. 16. Let there be light! Na-K laser cooling system is taking shape.

23Na laser cooling system 23Na laser fluorescence

2020. 7. 10. Lab renovations are done.

(before) (after)

2020. 6. 22. The exploration of resonant dipolar collision in microwave dressed ultracold molecules

has been published in PRL!

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063401 (2020)

APS Physics Synopsis, "Microwave Manipulation of Cold Molecules"

2020. 6. 4. Our research group has been selected as one of the recipients of the

"Samsung Science & Technology Foundation" research funds (press release - in Korean).

2020. 3. 30. OPEN POSITIONS: WE ARE LOOKING FOR HIGHLY MOTIVATED STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS

We are starting a new experiment to create a lattice gas of strongly dipolar molecules under a microscope objective. These molecules mimic the complicated dance of electrons and spins in strongly correlated materials and will give access to a host of exciting physics, from studying novel many-body states of matter to constructing molecule-based quantum processors. By using a high-resolution microscope objective, we aim to engineer and explore the exotic many-body states of this system with single lattice-site imaging capability.

Sounds exciting? Want to perform cutting-edge research in one of AMO's most exciting research fields? Join us!

2020. 3. 1. A new journey begins! It'll be an exciting adventure!