The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $543,878 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire a multi-use cryostat/magnet physical properties measurement system for studying quantum materials. The award, issued under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund the purchase of equipment to promote progress in these scientific fields from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The system will allow researchers...
This $108,176 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on interacting particle systems and their application to optimization, sampling, and filtering algorithms. The 5-year award, effective June 1, 2024, aims to develop a unified mathematical framework for these algorithms by reformulating them from the perspective of interacting particle systems....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,960 project grant to the National Academy of Sciences to support research identifying opportunities at the interface of chemistry and quantum information science. The two-year award, made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund work to advance understanding of major scientific challenges through exploration of this emerging field. Specifically, the funding will allow the Academy to investigate potential...
This $535,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry Project Grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop advanced ultrafast terahertz (THz) spectroscopy techniques and apply them to study the intermolecular forces and dynamics in liquids, especially liquid water and water mixtures. The project aims to overcome technical challenges in...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $484,999 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on September 1, 2024. The grant funding supports fundamental algorithmic research towards quantum utility, a critical area for advancing U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries. Caltech, a renowned private research university, will...
This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $164,000.00 in funding to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the project "QUANTUM COHERENCE AND DECOHERENCE IN MODEL SPIN SYSTEMS." The performance period for this grant runs from December 1, 2024, to November 30, 2027. The research funded under this award aims to advance scientific understanding in areas critical to...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $514,668 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced to develop new theoretical methods for simulating quantum effects in protonated water clusters. The project, titled "State-Resolved Vibrational Spectra of Fluxional Protonated Water Clusters via Tensor Network States", aims to enable efficient and accurate simulation of these clusters, which are key to understanding the fundamental properties of water. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $76,250 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop a software framework to simplify the implementation of advanced quantum chemistry methods on emerging hardware. The key products to be delivered include: A library to efficiently handle the matrices and tensors used in quantum chemistry equations,...
This $208,750 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund a collaborative research effort to develop a software framework to simplify the implementation of advanced quantum chemistry methods on emerging hardware platforms. The project team from Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, Virginia Tech, and the University of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $1.8 million Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles to establish the NSF Center for Advanced Molecular Architectures for Quantum Information Science under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The Center will develop new molecular and surface platforms containing molecular appendages that can serve as quantum bits for quantum computing. A team led by Professor Anastassia Alexandrova and...