The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $135,545 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration, doing business as Princeton University, to conduct collaborative research on quantum criticality, localization, and dynamics in quasiperiodic systems. This research under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop a general framework for exploring quantum phase...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded Princeton University a $108,991 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical research and education on the dynamics of interacting quantum systems that equilibrate anomalously slowly. The grant period runs from December 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. Specifically, the award will fund the development of computational methods tailored to characterizing...
This $318,775 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical and computational research and education activities at Lehigh University from May 2022 through April 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator and their team will develop advanced numerical techniques to model the properties of two-dimensional quantum...
This $269,798 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and associated education to investigate novel quantum phenomena in many-body systems. The research aims to explore multipartite entanglement, topological properties, and complex behaviors arising from factors like interactions, disorder, and dissipation in quantum systems. Key focus areas include quantum phases, quantum...
This $221,844 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) project grant award to Princeton University supports research on microscopic studies of frustrated quantum systems using ultracold gases of atoms and molecules. The research team will explore new phases of matter that appear in frustrated quantum systems, such as magnets that are robust to very high temperatures, to advance the fundamental understanding of these complex quantum phenomena....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $436,585 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical and computational research on novel phenomena in electronic insulators and related quantum Hall systems from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund the development of new theoretical concepts and field theoretic methods to describe strongly...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research on January 15, 2022 to support research titled "EXACT MODEL FOR EXTREMELY CORRELATED ELECTRONS IN A MAGNETIC FIELD." The two-year project will advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences through developing an exact model to describe strongly correlated electron behavior under an applied magnetic field. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental and applied research on correlated electron phases in a unique family of two-dimensional (2D) crystalline semiconductor materials. The $416,387 award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aims to investigate the emergent phenomena, phases, properties, and principles in this platform of naturally occurring multi-layer graphene...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds research to investigate collective quantum behavior of electrons at extremely low density. The $543,476 award to Montana State University is for a 3-year project from August 2024 to July 2027. Key objectives include studying the transition between metallic/superconducting and insulating/non-superconducting states in quasi-one-dimensional...