About

I completed my Bachelor's degree in physics at Seoul National University, where I began my studies in March 2015 and graduated in February 2021 summa cum laude. During my undergraduate years, I took a two-year break for military service in the Republic of Korea Air Force. I also gained research experience: an undergraduate internship focused on relativistic quantum information with Professor Sangmin Lee, a mini project on the topological properties of the 1D SSH model with Professor Gil-Young Cho, and a student traineeship at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS) at the Institute for Basic Science. At PCS, I worked on the project "Monitoring Quantum Otto Engines" with Professors Juzar Thingna and Peter Talkner, which resulted in a publication in PRX-Quantum. After graduating, I returned to PCS as a student research assistant and continued working with Professors Thingna and Talkner on a project "Charging quantum batteries via Otto machines: The influence of monitoring", which involves the expansion of our interest in monitoring schemes to quantum batteries. This work is published in Phys. Rev. A.

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Since August 2021, I have been working with Professor Nelly Ng at Nanyang Technological University as a PhD student, focusing on the concept of catalysis in resource theories. A catalyst is defined here as an auxiliary state that interacts with the system of interest during certain processes and returns to its original state after the protocol, analogous to a chemical catalyst. The use of such additional states enables transitions that are otherwise forbidden in many resource theories. While there have been general results regarding transformations permitted by the presence of catalysts in various resource theories, there has been limited research specifically dedicated to the catalyst itself. To date, my research has revealed that catalysis can provide non-Markovianity to operations having a certain degree of inherent Markovianity. I aim to apply these findings to scenarios going beyond resource theories and demonstrate the catalytic advantage in various quantum protocols, e.g. quantum control or state preparation. My research interests also include quantum algorithms, quantum channel characterisation, and fluctuation theorems.

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Outside of physics, I spend most of my free time watching kinos with a particular fondness for directors such as Éric Rohmer, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar Wai, and Park Chan-Wook. Check out my WatchaPedia profile! I also enjoy listening to or talking about music. I try to dig a wide range of music spanning shoegazing, experimental dance, ambient, indie-folk, and hyperpop. Follow my apple music account for more artists I like.

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