Professors

Department of Physics & Astronomy
안경원
An, KyungwonProfessor
Office : 56-324 , +82-2-880-8286
Lab. : +82-2-871-2866 
http://sal.snu.ac.kr/index.html (Quantum-Field Laser Laboratory, KW An's Group)

Education

  • · 1995 Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • · 1985 M.S. in Physics, Seoul National University
  • · 1983 B.S. in Physics, Seoul National University

Career

  • · 2001-present Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Seoul National University
  • · 1998-2001 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, KAIST
  • · 1996-1998 Senior Researcher, G.R.Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory
  • · 1994-1996 Postdoc. G.R.Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory

Research Interests

A. cavity QED using neutral atoms
phase-controlled cooperative atom-field interaction such as superradiance and super absorption
non-classical field generation such as single photons and highly sub-Poisson photon statistics

B. non-Hermitian and non-integrable system
quantum chaos
exceptional points

Selected Publications in the last 5 years

  1. Coherent single-atom superradiance, Science 359 (6376), 662 (2018).
  2. Realization of superabsorption by time reversal of superradiance, Nature Photonics 15, 272 (2021)
  3. A photonic quantum engine driven by superradiance, Nature Photonics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01039-2