BIOGRAPHY

Sung-Ho S. Salk graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with Ph. D, in physics and Phi Kappa Phi honor in 1972. He taught ~30 years, mostly at Pohang University of Science and Technology, the Korea’s leading university. Earlier he was honored to serve as vice president of Korean Academy of Science and Technology and is now a permanent fellow of the Korea’s highest academy. He published over 500 papers: 271 refereed and invited papers in eminent journals and proceedings and 235 submitted and abstract papers. He is listed as who’s who in the world and who’s who in America:

PUBLICATIONS

Selected Recent 30 Publications 

1. Sung-Ho S. Salk, Plausible room temperature superconductivity and physical properties of cuprate superconductors based on a rigorous slave-boson representation of the t-J Hamiltonian, Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations, 5, 149 (2018).
2. Seung Joon Shin, Sung-Sik Lee, Ki-2 Seok Kim, Jae-Gon Eom and Sung-Ho Salk  Invariant physical properties in high temperature superconductivity, J. Supercond Nov Magn 23; 637 (2010)
3. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Doping and temperature dependence of superfluid weight and spectral functions; Universal scaling behavior of the pseudogap, Phys. Rev. B, 71, 134518 (2005)
4. S.-S. Lee, S.-A, Ahn and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Phase separation in the two-dimensional systems of strongly correlated Electrons : the role of spin singlet pairs on hole pairing contribution to hole-rich phase, Key Engineering Materials V. 277-279, 1011 (2005).
5. J.-H. Eom and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Scaling behavior in the optical conductivity of the two-dimensional systems of strongly correlated electrons based on the U(1) slave-boson approach to t-J Hamiltonian,  Phys. Rev. B, 72, 064508 (2005).
6. K.-S. Kim, J.-H. Eom, Y.-I. Seo, Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Role of spinon and spinon singlet pair excitations on phase transition in d-wave superconductors, Phys. Rev. B,  69, 014504 (2004)
7. K.-S. Kim, Y.-I, Seo, J.-H. Eom. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Role of spinon excitations on KT transition at low energies in d-wave superconductors, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 17, 3319 (2003)
8. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Doping dependence of Bose condensation energy, correlations with spectral peak intensity, and superfluid weight in high Tc cuprates, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B17, 3231(2003)
9. J. Yi, M.-W. Cho, and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, From paramagnetic to diamagnetic charge and spin currents in a Hubbard necklace, Phys. Rev. B 65, 193108 (2002)​
10. S.S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Holon pairing instability based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation obtained from the t-J Hamiltonians of both U(1) and SU(2) Slave-boson symmetries,Phys. Rev. B 66, 054427 (2002)
11. J.-H. Eom and S.-H. Salk, On the Origin of Peak-dip-hump Structure in the In-plane Optical Conductivity of the High $T_C$ Cuprates; Role of Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations of Short Range Order, Phys. Rev. B, 66, 064520 (2002)
12. S.-S. Lee(S) and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Holon pair bose condensation based on the SU(2) slave-boson approach to the t-J Hamiltonian ; instability of the normal state against holon pairing, Physica C 353, 130 (2001)
13. J.-H. Eom, S.-S. Lee, K.-S. Kim and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Optical conductivity for the two dimensional systems of strongly correlated electrons”, Physica C 364, 197 (2001)　
14. S.-P. Hong, S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Geometric (Berry) phases and statistical transmutation in the two dimensional systems of antiferromatically correlated electrons, Physica C 364, 202 (2001)
15. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, High Tc phase diagram based on the SU(2) slave-boson approach to the t-J Hamiltonian, Phys Rev. B 64, 052501(2001)
16. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Holon pair bose condensation based on the SU(2) slave-boson approach to the t-J Hamiltonian ; instability of the normal state against holon pairing”, Physica C 363,130 (2001)
17. Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Resonance scattering in the three-body systems of Atom-diatom and relevance to condensed matter physics, J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 49, 395 (2001)
18. T.-H. Gimm and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Phase separation based on a U(1) slave-boson functional integral approach to the t-J model”, Phys. Rev. B 62, 13930 (2000).
19. S.-P. Hong, S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Effects of magnetic field on the two-dimensional systems of antiferromagnetically correlated electrons based on the Hubbard model Hamiltonian with easy axis: Aharonove-Bohm and Zeeman effects”, Phys. Rev. B 62,14880 (2000)​
20. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Holon pair bose condensation based on the SU(2) slave-boson approach to the t-J Hamiltonian; Instability of normal state against holon pairing”, Physics B 284, 441 (2000).
21. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Analysis of high Tc phase diagram and its implcation to nano-scale science”, Opt. Phys. (SPIE) Vol. 4058 (2000).
22. Sung-Ho Suck Salk and S.-S. Lee, “Study of hole pair condensation based on the SU(2) slave-boson approach to the t-J Hamiltonian”, Physica B 284-288, 441 (2000).
23. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “High Tc superconductivity as a consequence of coupling between the charge and the spin degrees of freedom”, J. Kor. Phys. Soc., 37, 545 (2000).
24. S.-P. Hong, K. Park and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Effects of nonmagnetic impurities on optical conductivity in strongly correlated systems”, Phys. Rev. B 60, 15504 (1999).
25. S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Study of holon pair bose condensation based on SU(2) slave boson  approach to the t-J Hamiltonian”, J. Low. Temp. Phys.117, 295 (1999).
26. S. -P. Hong, C.-S. Kim, S.-S. Lee and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Lanczos exact diagonalization study of field induced phase transitions for I sing and Hesenberg antiferromagnets”, Phys. Rev. B, 60, 9252 (1999).
27. S.-P. Hong and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Harper’s equation for two dimensional systems of antiferromagnetically correlated electrons”, Phys. Rev. B 60, 9550 (1999).
28. T.-H. Gimm, S.-S. Lee, S.-P. Hong and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Holon pair condensation and phase diagram of high Tc cuprates”, Phys. Rev. B 60, 6324 (1999).
29. M.-H. Lee, N.N. choi and sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Dynamic role of coupled channel wave phases on the structural determination of angular distribution”, Phys. Rev. A 59, 1966 (1999)
30. S.-P. Hong and Sung-Ho Suck Salk, “Comparison of Quasiparticle Energy Dispersion and Shadow Peaks of Doped Two-leg Ladder Systems between Various Models Including an SO(5) Symmetry Model”, Phys Rev. B 59, 3361(1999).

RESEARCH INTEREST

1. High Tc Superconductivity : Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions

2. Many-body Theory ; Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

3. Gauge Theory and Quantum Field Theory with Application to Condensed Matter Physics

4. Low Dimensional Physics : Superconductivity; Fractional Quantum Hall Effects

5. Berry Phase Theory : Application to Scattering Theory and Low Dimensional Phys.

6. Nano Science; 2-D Systems; Atomic and Molecular Clusters; Chemical Physics

7. Geometry and Topology with Application to Physics

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Academic Honor : Phi Kappa Phi Graduate,  University of Texas, 1972
• Citation Award : Vice Prime Minister of Korea , 2005
• NSF Research Grant Awardee :
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (U. S. A.); 1980-1982
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (U. S. A.); 1983-1986
• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (U. S. A.); 1988-1991
• Co-principal Investigator, Air Force (U. S. A.); 1986-1988

EDITORSHIP

• Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Modern Physics; New Theories
• Co-Editor  and  Conferenc Chair :Guest Editor : Journal of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Vol. 23, No 5 ad No. 6, July, 2010
• Co-editor : The Sixth International Conference on New Theories, Devices and Applications in Superconductivity and Related Materials (NEW3SC); Sidney, Australia, Jan. 9-11, 2007
• Co-Editor: International Journal of Modern Physics Vol. 17;  New Theories, Discoveries and Applications of Superconductors; 2003
• Co-Editor: Physica C Vol. 364: Superconductivity; 2001
• Co-Editor: International Journal of Modern Physics Vol. 13; 1999