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Sergei Khlebnikov Professor of Physics
Group Leader, Purdue Nuclear and Many-Body Theory Group
Director, Center for Sensing Science and Technology (CSST)
Contact Information:
Office: Physics 258
Telephone: (765) 494-3042
Fax: (765) 494-0706
Email: yekim@physics.purdue.edu

B.S., Lincoln Memorial University, 1959
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1963

Research Interests and Focus

Previous: Theoretical nuclear physics
Current: Theoretical physics (see publications 1-21), condensed matter physics (publications 6-18), atomic, molecular and optical physics (publications 6-18), nuclear astrophysics (publication 1), nuclear fusion/nuclear physics (publications 1-4, 19-21), and quantum statistical mechanics (publication 5).

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow, the American Physical Society
  • Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1977

Current Funding

  • DOD

Professional Experience

  • Director, Center for Sensing Science and Technology (CSST), 2001-present
  • Director, Division of Sponsored Program Development, Purdue Research Foundation, 1999-2001
  • Director, Integrated Detection of Hazardous Materials (IDHM) Program 2000-2004
  • Research Director for Physical Sciences, Purdue Research Foundation, 1993-1998,    2001-2004
  • Group Leader, Purdue Nuclear and Many-Body Theory Group (PNMBTG), 1967-   present
  • Professor, Purdue University, 1977-present
  • Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1973-77
  • Consultant and Collaborator, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1974-1979 and 1987-1993
  • Long-Term Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1973-74
  • Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1967-73
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1965-67
  • Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1963-65 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor, Seoul National University Summer of 1979, 1980, 1992, 1995, and 1996
  • Visiting Professor, University of Mainz 1977-78
  • Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki Summer 1973
  • Visiting Professor, University of Groningen Spring 1973

Consultants

  • Participating Guest, Physics and Space Technology/N Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 1997-2000
  • Consultant and Collaborator, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1987-1993
  • Member, the NSF Review Panel for the superconducting electron accelerator program at the High Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, 1978
  • Short-term visiting staff member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1974-1979

Entrepreneurial Activities

Professor Kim has been Director of Center for Sensing Science and Technology (CSST) since CSST was inaugurated in March 2001. Since 2002, six start-up companies (Griffin Analytical, Prosolia, Quadraspec, 2K, PathoChip, and QE) were created using technologies developed by CSST Co-Principal Investigators under his guidance as Director of Purdue CSST. He is the co-founder of 2K Corporation and PathoChip, Inc., and the founder of QE Corporation.

Professional and Scholarly Activities

  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Indonesia, 2008
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, July 2005
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Shanghai, China, August 2002
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Tokyo, Japan, August 22-28, 1999
  • Member, the Asia-Pacific Few-Body Physics Committee since September 1998
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the International Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics, in 1989, 1992, and 1994
  • Member, Steering Committee, Topical Group on Few Body System, American Physical Society, 1987-89
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the XIth International Conference on FewBody Problems in Physics, Tokyo and Sendai, Japan, August 1986
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the Xth International Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics, Karlsruhe, West Germany, August 21-27, 1983
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Mesons and Light Nuclei, Liblice, Czechoslovakia, June 1-4, 1981
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the IVth International Conference on the Few Body Problem, Oregon, August 17-23, 1980
  • Member, the International Advisory Committee for the International Conference on Nuclear Physics with Electromagnetic Interactions, Mainz, West Germany, June 5-10, 1979
  • Chairman, The International Advisory Committee for the VIIIth International Conference on Few Body Problems in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Graz, Austria, August 24-30, 1978
  • Chairman, the First Gordon Research Conference on Few Body Problems, New Hampshire, August 15-19, 1977

Selected Publications

  1. Y.E. Kim, “Bose-Einstein Condensate Theory of Deuteron Fusion in Metal”, Purdue Nuclear and Many-Body Theory Group (PNMBTG) preprint, PNMBTG-1-10 (January, 2010), to be published in American Institute of Physics (AIP) Proceedings (2010) (PDF)
  2. Y.E. Kim, "Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation mechanism for deuteron-induced nuclear reactions in micro/nano-scale metal grains and particles." Naturwissenschaften, 96, 803-811 (2009), DOI 10.1007/s00114-009-0537-6 (published on line, May 14, 2009). (PDF)
  3. Y.E. Kim, "The 1908 Tunguska Cosmic Body (TCB) Explosion: Role of Hydrogen Thermonuclear Explosion in Support of Cometary Hypothesis", Few-Body Systems 44, 361-363 (2008). (PDF)
  4. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Theoretical Interpretation of Anomalous Enhancement of Nuclear Reaction Rates Observed at Low Energies with Metal Targets", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 46, 1656-1662 (2007). (PDF)
  5. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Effect of a Generalized Particle Momentum Distribution on Plasma Nuclear Fusion Rates", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 45, L552-L554 (June 2, 2006). (PDF)
  6. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Hydrodynamic Modes in a Trapped Strongly Interactive Fermi Gas of Atoms", J.Phys.B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 38, L243-L249 (2005). (PDF)
  7. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory for Trapped Strongly Interacting Fermionic Atoms", Physical Review A70, 033612 (2004). (PDF)
    (This paper has been already referenced in 21 professional journal articles by other authors).
  8. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases of Atoms in a Harmonic Trap", Physics Letters A327, 397 (2004). (PDF)
  9. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Three-Body Losses in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases", Physical Review A69, 023602 (2004). (PDF)
  10. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Cold Bose Gases near Feshbach Resonances", Physics Letters A312, 277 (2003). (PDF)
  11. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Density Functional Theory of Bosons in a Trap", Physical Review A67, 015602 (2003). (PDF)
  12. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Equivalent Linear Two-Body Method for Bose-Einstein Condensates in Time-Dependent Harmonic Traps", Physical Review A66, 053602 (2002). (PDF)
  13. A.L.Zubarev and Y.E. Kim, "Approximation for Nonlinear Dynamics of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates", Physical Review A65, 035601 (2002). (PDF)
  14. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Interacting Electrons in Quantum Dots", Physics Letters A289, 155 (2001). (PDF)
  15. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Ground-State of Charged Bosons Confined in a Harmonic Trap", Physical Review A64, 013603(2001). (PDF)
  16. Y. E. Kim and A. L. Zubarev, "Separable Structure of Many-Body Ground-State Wave Function", Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 33, 3905 (2000).
  17. Y. E. Kim and A. L. Zubarev, "Equivalent Linear Two-Body Method for Many-Body Problems", Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 33, 55 (2000).
  18. Y. E. Kim and A. L. Zubarev, "Stability of Solution of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation for the Bose-Einstein Condensation", Physics Letters A 246, 389 (1998).
  19. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "The Hilbert-Schmidt Theorem Formulation of the R-Matrix Theory", Journal of Physics 31A, 6483 (1998).
  20. Y.E. Kim and A.L. Zubarev, "Asymptotic Continuum Wave Function for Three-Charged Particles", Physical Review A56, 521 (1997).
  21. Y.E. Kim, Y.J. Kim, A.L. Zubarev, and J.-H. Yoon, "Optical Theorem Formulation of Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions", Physical Review C55, 801 (1997).

Ph.D. Theses Supervised: 10
Refereed Publications: 190