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(Last update : September, 2004)

Heung-Sun Sim

Assistant professor
Department of Physics,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejon 305-701, Republic of Korea

(Tel) +82 42 869 2545 (Fax) +82 42 869 2510
Office: Natural Science Building, 5304

(official e-mail : hssim@kaist.ac.kr)

(secondary e-mail : hssim@kias.re.kr)

Teaching

Spring 2005
PH503 Quantum Mechanics for graduate students
Office hour : 13:00 - 14:00, Tuesday or by appointment.

Fall 2004
PH312 Statistical Mechanics for undergraduate students

Research Area : Condensed matter theory

Current Interests
Electron transport in mesoscopic and nanoscale systems (more details here) :

Disordered or chaotic systems

Strongly correlated electrons

Nanoscale electron transport

2D electrons in strong magnetic fields and quantum Hall effect

Shot noise

Entanglement

Selected publication list (Full list, List ordered by research topics )

H.-S. Sim et al.,
Magnetic Edge States in a Magnetic Quantum Dots,
Physical Review Letters 80, 1501 (1998).
H.-S. Sim, K. J. Chang, and G. Ihm,
Composite-fermion Edge States in Fractional Quantum Hall Systems,
Physical Review Letters 82, 596 (1999).
H.-S. Sim, H.-W. Lee, and K. J. Chang,
Even-Odd Behavior of Conductance in Monatomic Sodium Wires,
Physical Review Letters 87, 096803 (2001).
H.-S. Sim et al.,
Magnetic Quantum Dot: A Magnetic Transmission Barrier and Resonator,
Physical Review Letters 87, 146601 (2001).
H.-S. Sim and H. Schomerus,
Shot Noise in Ballistic Quantum Dots with a Mixed Classical Phase Space,
Physical Review Letters 89, 066801 (2002).
H.-S. Sim et al.,
Coulomb Blockade and Kondo Effect in a Quantum Hall Antidot,
Physical Review Letters 91, 266801 (2003).

Experience and Education

Assistant Professor (Sep 2004 - present), Physics, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Research Fellow (Oct 2002 - Aug 2004), KIAS (Korea Institute for Advanced Study), Seoul, Korea

Guest Scientist (May 2001 - Sep 2002), MPIPKS (Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems), Dresden, Germany

Postdoctoral Fellow (Mar 2001 - Apr 2001), Natural Science Research Institute, KAIST

Ph. D. Degree (Mar 1997 - Feb 2001), Physics, KAIST

M. S. Degree (Mar 1995 - Feb 1997), Physics, KAIST

B. S. Degree (Mar 1991 - Feb 1995), Physics, KAIST

Others