Block Grant W911NF2310338

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports Professor Hendrik Utzat of the University of California, Berkeley in advancing a new form of spectroscopy to study the loss of coherence in single-photon emitters critical to quantum information science (QIS) technologies. The $700,000 award will enable Professor Utzat's group to leverage a quantum optics-based technique called Hong-Ou-Mandel...

This $2.46 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into interconnected superconducting and color center qubits in silicon devices from September 2021 through August 2025. The University of California, Berkeley will lead efforts to design high kinetic inductance superconducting devices using disordered superconducting alloys for insensitivity to light fields and coupling microwave fields to mechanical modes....

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), will enable researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University to explore fundamental quantum phenomena and develop techniques for efficient characterization of magnetic noise at the atomic level. The $1,750,000 project, with a period of performance from July 2024 to August 2027, aims to expand understanding of electronic noise...

This three-year, $284,063 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research into advances in quantum control and noise mitigation using a highly accurate quantum testbed. The University of Arizona, operating through the Arizona Board of Regents, will lead collaborative experimental and theoretical work to develop new techniques for quantum control and shielding quantum devices from noise. Researchers will employ a small,...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $457,380 provides funding through July 2025 for the HAYSTAC Quantum Enhanced collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Colorado. The award supports research seeking to discover the identity of dark matter through operation of one of the world's leading experiments searching for the hypothetical axion particle. UC Berkeley is responsible for research and development of tunable microwave cavities and...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build an advanced quantum computing laboratory. The laboratory will create and fault-tolerantly measure many-body quantum states, with the goal of demonstrating practical quantum advantages for problems in chemistry, materials, and physics. The project will make significant advances in atomic...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $400,000 to Northeastern University aims to develop energy-efficient, low-cost, and compact cryogenic chips that can enable scaling quantum computing systems to support thousands of qubits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Demonstration of a fully analog, low-power, and scalable qubit control scheme using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) project grant awarded to the University of Colorado (CU) aims to develop the first deterministic solid-state photonic quantum register capable of storing multiple optical photons. The $408,691 award, effective January 15, 2025 through December 31, 2029, will utilize single germanium vacancy centers in diamond as quantum memory. The program's key objectives include demonstrating the sequential storage and retrieval of...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop optically active quantum bits (qubits) in silicon. The goal is to create scalable quantum devices by integrating these silicon-based qubits with nanophotonic engineering and microwave control. The research will focus on a silicon color center called the "T center" which can exhibit efficient optical...

This $411,735 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop specialized germanium detectors and conduct experiments at the TRIUMF accelerator center in Canada. The goal is to search for a hypothesized boson particle in the decay of antimuons by focusing on low-energy signatures. The University of Chicago will receive the funding to build detectors with improved energy resolution of over three orders of magnitude compared to previous large scintillator calorimeters. These...