Research Interests

My main interests lie in the study of strongly correlated systems using field theory. Weakly correlated systems such as semiconductors and most metals with the electron interaction energy much smaller than the kinetic energy can be successfully understood from a single particle picture. On the other hand, strongly correlated systems like fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems and high temperature superconductors with various interactions playing crucial roles, manifest properties incomprehensible from a single particle picture just like water displays properties irreducible to those of vapor. Consequently, unconventional properties of these strongly correlated systems have been compelling the development of new experimental techniques and theoretical concepts. Often strongly correlated systems have exotic ground states and their excitations can have unconventional properties. I am particularly interested in the connection between mathematical and beautiful concepts and their experimental realization. The following are topics of my particular current interest:

1. •    High Tc superconductivity
   

2. •    Unconventional superconductivity
   

3. •    Phases with intermediate order
   

4. •    Topological phases and fractionalization
   

5. •    Low dimensional and mesoscopic systems
   

Bio

Eun-Ah Kim arrived at Cornell University in 2008 as an assistant professor of Physics.   She received her B.S. in 1998 and M.S. in 2000 from Seoul National University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. She was a SITP postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University between 2005 and 2008.

Recent highlights

1. ✤Virtual Journal of Quantum Information November  (2007) issue  selected my article “Stability of Half-Quantum Vortices in p_x + ip_y Superconductors," published in PRL 99, 197002 (2007).
   

2. ✤Virtual Journal of Nanoscience and Technology November 19 (2007) issue selected my article “Stability of Half-Quantum Vortices in p_x + ip_y Superconductors," published in PRL 99, 197002 (2007).
   

3. ✤Virtual Journal of Nanoscience and Technology December 4 (2006) issue  selected my article “Aharanov-Bohm Interference and Fractional Statistics in a Quantum Hall Interferometer," published in PRL 97, 216404 (2006).
   

4. ✤Virtual Journal of Nanoscience and Technology November 13 (2006) issue selected my article "Measuring fractional charge and statistics in fractional quantum Hall fluids through noise experiments," published in PRB 74, 155324 (2006),
   

5. ✤Featured in Physics web Jan 2006
   

6. ✤Physical Review Focus 16 story 14