Theoretical Atomic Collisions Laboratory

Dr. Yew Kam Ho

Education

Ø  B.Sc., Physics, 1969, Sir George Williams University, Canada

Ø  M.Sc., Physics, 1971, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Ø  Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (Theoretical Physics), 1975, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Experience

 Ø  Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA (1975–1977)

Ø  Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Wayne State University, USA (1977–1980)

Ø  Research Associate/Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, USA (1980–1984)

Ø  Assistant Professor -Associate Professor Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, USA (1984–1993)

Ø  Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (1993–present)

Research Insterest

Ø  Studies of few-body systems related to muon catalyzed fusion

Ø  Atomic photoionization and resonances in weakly coupled (Debye) and strongly coupled plasmas

Ø  Theoretical studies of quantum dots

Ø  Interactions of positrons and positronium with atoms

Ø  Atoms in external electric and magnetic fields

Ø  Develop new computational techniques such as the complex absorbing potential (CAP) method and the stabilization method for atomic structure and collision calculations

Honors, Awards, and Recognitions

Ø  Outstanding Referee, awarded by the American Physical Society, 2010

Ø  Elected Fellow, Physical Society of ROC (PSROC), 1999 

Ø  Elected APS Fellow, American Physical Society (USA), 1997

Ø  Listed in Who'sWho in the World (Marquis, USA)

Ø  Listed in Who'sWho in Science and Engineering (Marquis, USA)  

Ø  Listed in American Men and Women of Science

Selected Publications

1.         "Anomalous Stark effect in the ground state of the confined hydrogen atom in a spherical quantum dot," S. Sahoo and Y.K. Ho, Phys. Rev. B 69, 165323 (2004).

2.         "Doubly-excited 2s2 1Se resonance state of helium embedded in Debye plasmas," Sabyasachi Kar and Y.K. Ho, Chem. Phys. Letters 402, 544-548 (2005).

3.         "Complex-rotation treatment on high-lying doubly-excited resonances in H- interacting with screened Coulomb potentials," Sumana Chakraborty and Y.K. Ho, Chem. Phys. Lett. 438, 99 (2007).

4.         "Atomic Resonances involving positrons," Y.K. Ho, Nuclear Inst. Methods B 266, 516 (2008).

5.         "Ratio of double to single photoionization cross sections of plasma-embedded helium atoms at x-ray energies," S. Kar and Y.K. Ho, Phys. Rev. A 77, 022713 (2008).

6.         "Resonances with unnatural parities in the positron-hydrogen system," Z.-C. Yan and Y.K. Ho, Phys. Rev. A 77, 030701R (2008) (Rapid Communication).

7.         “Multipole polarizabilities of helium and the hydrogen negative ion with Coulomb and screened Coulomb potentials ”, S. Kar and Y. K. Ho, Phys. Rev. A 80, 062511 (2009).

8.         “Application of variational method for three-color three-photon transitions in hydrogen atom implanted in Debye plasmas “, S. Paul and Y. K. Ho, Physics of Plasmas 16, 113301 (2009).

9.         “Photodetachment of H⁻ in dense quantum plasmas “, Arijit Ghoshaland Y. K. Ho, Phys. Rev. E 81, 016403 (2010).

10.     “Borromean binding in H₂⁺ with screened Coulomb potentials “, S. Karand Y. K. Ho, Chem. Phys. Lett.506, 282-285 (2011)

11.     “Photoionization cross sections of hydrogen impurity in a spherical quantum dot in the finite-element discrete variable representation “, C. Y. Lin and Y. K. Ho, Phys. Rev. A84, 023407 (2011)

12.     “Autoionization resonance states of two-electron atomic systems with finite spherical confinement “, Sumana Chakraborty and Y. K. Ho, Phys. Rev. A.84, 032515 (2011).