E-mail ykho@pub.iams.sinica.edu.tw Office Tel. of office Laboratory Tel. of Lab.
Education
B.Sc., Physics, 1969, Sir George Williams University, Canada
M.Sc., Physics, 1971, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (Theoretical Physics), 1975, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA (1975–1977)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Wayne State University, USA (1977–1980)
Research Associate/Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, USA (1980–1984)
Assistant Professor -Associate Professor Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, USA (1984–1993)
Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (1993–2016)
Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (2016–present)
Research Interests
Studies of few-body systems related to muon catalyzed fusion
Atomic photoionization and resonances in weakly coupled (Debye) and strongly coupled plasmas
Theoretical studies of quantum dots
Interactions of positrons and positronium with atoms
Atoms in external electric and magnetic fields
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
Outstanding Referee, awarded by the American Physical Society, 2010
Elected Fellow, Physical Society of ROC (PSROC), 1999
Elected APS Fellow, American Physical Society (USA), 1997
Listed in Who'sWho in the World (Marquis, USA)
Listed in Who'sWho in Science and Engineering (Marquis, USA)
Listed in American Men and Women of Science
Selected Publications
"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. B69, 165323 (2004).
"Doubly-excited 2s2 1Se resonance state of helium embedded in Debye plasmas," Sabyasachi Kar and Y.K. Ho, Chem. Phys. Letters402, 544-548 (2005).
"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).
"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. A77, 022713 (2008).
"Resonances with unnatural parities in the positron-hydrogen system," Z.-C. Yan and Y.K. Ho, Phys. Rev. A77, 030701R (2008) (Rapid Communication).
“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).
“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).
“Photodetachment of H− in dense quantum plasmas “, Arijit Ghoshaland Y. K. Ho, Phys. Rev. E 81, 016403 (2010).
“Borromean binding in H2+ with screened Coulomb potentials “, S. Karand Y. K. Ho, Chem. Phys. Lett. 506, 282-285 (2011)
“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)
“Autoionization resonance states of two-electron atomic systems with finite spherical confinement “, Sumana Chakraborty and Y. K. Ho, Phys. Rev. A.84, 032515 (2011).
Zishi Jiang, Sabyasachi Kar, and Y. K. Ho (2011), Polarizabilities of two-electron positive ions with screened Coulomb potentials, Phys. Rev. A 84, 012504.
Z.-C. Yan and Y. K. Ho (2011), Higher-lying resonances in Ps-H scattering below the (e+ H-) threshold, Phys Rev. A84, 034503.
Zishi Jiang, Sabyasachi Kar, and Y.K. Ho (2012), Energies and transition wavelengths for Li II, Be III, B VI, CV embedded in Debye plasmas, Physics of Plasmas 19, 033301.
Yen-Chang Lin, Chih-Yuan Lin, and Yew Kam Ho (2012) Spectral data of helium atoms with screened Coulomb potentials using the B-spline approach, Phys. Rev. A 85, 042516.
M. K. Pandey, Y. C. Lin and Y. K. Ho (2012), Cross sections of charge exchange and ionization in O8++H collision in Debye plasmas, Physics of Plasmas 19, 062104.
Sabyasachi Kar and Y. K. Ho (2012), Borromean windows for H2+ with screened Coulomb potentials, Phys. Rev. A 86, 014502.
Y. K. Ho (2013) Recent Advances in the Theoretical Methods and Computational Schemes for Investigations of Resonances in Few-Body Atomic Systems, Few-Body Systems 54, 31-37.
C. Y. Lin, Y. K. Ho (2013), Photoionization of endohedral atoms in fullerene cages, Few-Body Systems 54, 425-429.
Mukesh Pandey, Y. -C. Lin, and Y.K. Ho (2013), Investigation of charge transfer and ionization in He-like systems (Li+, Be2+, B3+, C4+, N5+, O6+)-hydrogen atom collisions in Debye plasmas, Phys. of Plasmas 20, 022104.
Yen-Chang Lin, Chih-Yuan Lin, and Yew Kam Ho (2013), Spatial entanglement in two-electron atomic systems, PHYSICAL REVIEW A87, 022316.
Hui-Fang Lai; Yen-Chang Lin; Chih-Yuan Lin; Yew Kam Ho (2013), Bound-state energies, oscillator strengths, and multipolepolarizabilities for the hydrogen atom with exponential-cosine screened Coulomb potentials, Chin. J. Phys. 51, 73-84.
L. G. Jiaoand Y. K. Ho (2013), Shape resonances in the electron-hydrogen system with screened Coulomb potentials, PHYSICAL REVIEW A87, 052508.
MukeshPandey, Y. -C. Lin, and Y.K. Ho (2013), Differential Cross Sections for Charge Transfer in He-like Systems (Li+, Be2+, B3+, C4+, N5+, O6+)-Hydrogen Atoms Collisions, Chin. J. Phys.51, 1192-1204.
L. G. Jiao and Y. K. Ho,Bound and resonant states in confined atoms. Adv. QuantumChem., Invited Chapter (in press).
L. G. Jiaoand Y. K. Ho (2013), S-Wave Shape Resonances in the Ps− System, Few-Body Syst. 54, 1937-1944.
L. G. Jiaoand Y. K. Ho (2013), Complex Scaling Calculations for Resonance States of He with Screened Coulomg Potentials, Inter. J. Quantum. Chem.113, 2569–2579.
Chien-Hao Lin, Yen-Chang Lin and Yew Kam Ho (2013), Quantifications of linear entropy in He, H- and Ps- ions using highly correlated Hylleraas functions, Few Body Systems54, 2147-2153.
Li-Guang Jiao and Y. K. Ho (2013), Doubly excited P-wave resonance states of H−in Debye plasmas, Physics of Plasmas20, 083303.
T. N. Chang, T. K. Fang, and Y. K. Ho (2013), One- and two-photon ionization of hydrogen atom embedded in Debye plasmas, Physics of Plasmas20, 092110.
Li-Guang Jiao and Y. K. Ho (2014), Doubly-excited 2p23Pe state of the hydrogen negative ion in Debye plasmas, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & RadiativeTransfer 144, 27-35.
L. G. Jiao and Y. K. Ho (2014), Complete supermultiplet structures for the doubly-excited intrashell resonances of H-associated with the H(N = 2, 3, and 4) thresholds, Phys. Rev. A, (accepted).
Chien-Hao Lin and Yew Kam Ho, Quantification of entanglement entropy in helium by the Schmidt-Slater decomposition method, 2014 Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Republic of China.