JOONSEOK HUR

RESEARCH INTEREST

 Atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, quantum computing, interconnecting quantum-computing modules. optical lattice atomic clocks, ultracold trapped ions, precision spectroscopy, Standard-Model tests, search for New Physics

PUBLICATIONS

Joonseok Hur*, Diana P. L. Aude Craik*, Ian Counts*, Eugene Knyazev, Luke Caldwell, Calvin Leung, Swadha Pandey, Julian C. Berengut, Amy Geddes, Witold Nazarewicz, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Akio Kawasaki, Honggi Jeon, Wonho Jhe, Vladan Vuletić,  Evidence of Two-Source King Plot Nonlinearity in Spectroscopic Search for New Boson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 163201 (2022) * equal contribution
Featured in Physics: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/108

Ian Counts*, Joonseok Hur*, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Honggi Jeon, Calvin Leung, Julian C. Berengut, Amy Geddes, Akio Kawasaki, Wonho Jhe, and Vladan Vuletić, Evidence for Nonlinear Isotope Shift in Yb+ Search for New Boson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123002 (2020) * equal contribution
Editors' Suggestion
Featured in Physics: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/s115

Ian Counts, Dorian Gangloff, Alexei Bylinskii, Joonseok Hur, Rajibul Islam, and Vladan Vuletić, Multislip Friction with a Single Ion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043601 (2017)

PRESENTATIONS

Invited talk: Joonseok Hur, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Eugene Knyazev, Ian Counts, Luke Caldwell, Calvin Leung, Julian C. Berengut, Amy Geddes, Witold Nazarewicz, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Akio Kawasaki, Honggi Jeon, Wonho Jhe, and Vladan Vuletić, Probing new physics with isotope-shift spectroscopy of trapped ions, 817. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Precision Atomic Physics Experiments to Probe for New Physics, Bad Honnef, Germany, September 2021.

Invited talk: Joonseok Hur, Ian Counts, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Eugene Knyazev, Honggi Jeon, Julian C. Berengut, Amy Geddes, Wonho Jhe, and Vladan Vuletić, Search for new physics using isotope-shift spectroscopy with trapped ions, APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP), June 2021. 

Joonseok Hur, Ian Counts, Calvin Leung, Honggi Jeon, Wonho Jhe, and Vladan Vuletić, Probing new bosons via isotope shift spectroscopy of Yb, 2nd North American Conference on Trapped Ions, July 2019. Oral & poster presentation.

EDUCATION

2015 - 2022 Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Thesis: Probing New Physics with Spectroscopy of Trapped Ions (via DSpace@MIT)
Advisor: Vladan Vuletić, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics

2009 - 2015 B.S. in Physics, summa cum laude, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

HONORS & AWARDS

Elected attendee as Young Scientist at 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Nominated by Korea Foundation of Advanced Study (KFAS), supported by Prof. Vladan Vuletić and Prof. Jun Ye

Nominee of the 2024 Deborah Jin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics
Nominated by Prof. Vladan Vuletić, seconded by Prof. Witold Nazarewicz, Prof. Wonho Jhe, and Prof. Roee Ozeri

Doctoral Study Abroad Program (scholarship), Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies. 2015 - 2020

OTHER WORKS PUBLISHED

Softwares

• REDF: an add-on subroutine of a popular atomic structure calculation package GRASP2018 for extracting radial electron densities out of the GRASP2018 outputs.

Old works (for my own reference)

Joonseok Hur, Kyoohyun Kim, SangYun Lee, HyunJoo Park, and YongKeun Park, Melittin-induced alterations in morphology and deformability of human red blood cells using quantitative phase imaging techniques, Scientific Report 7, 9306 (2017)

Joonseok Hur, HyunJoo Park, SangYoon Lee, and YongKeun Park, 3D optical study of melittin associated red blood cells using a common-path diffraction optical tomography. SPIE Photonic West BiOS Conference 2016

Suk-Min Ko*, Joonseok Hur*, Chulwon Lee, Isnaeni, Su-Hyun Gong, MinKwan Kim, and Yong-Hoon Cho, Hexagonal GaN nanorod-based photonic crystal slab as simultaneous yellow broadband reflector and blue emitter for phosphor-conversion white light emitting devices, Scientific Report 10, 358 (2020) * equal contribution