Neutral-atom quantum computing

I’m a physics undergraduate at KAIST, working on neutral-atom quantum computing in Prof. Jaewook Ahn’s group.

What I find interesting is not whether a quantum device solves a problem, but what it is actually doing while it does. Rydberg-atom optimization is a good place to ask that: the same hardware that returns a good answer also leaves behind structure in how excitations distribute, how noise degrades the run, and how many shots it takes to get there — and that structure says more about the physics than the final energy does.

Alongside this, I spent six months at NTU Singapore in Prof. Nelly Ng’s group (The inQlings), working on quantum resource theory — which state transformations physical constraints allow, and what that costs thermodynamically.