Texas A&M University was awarded a $241,036 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support collaborative research on nuclear spin optical rotation of hyperpolarized liquids and solids from July 2021 through June 2024. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Florida State University $450,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports the development of new methods to advance the capabilities of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy through two complementary approaches to significantly improve NMR sensitivity and lower detection limits for a wider range of target molecules. Dr. Sungsool Wi...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded New York University $465,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "NEW EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR THE STUDY OF NUCLEAR SPIN STATE LIFETIMES" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. Under this award, NYU will develop new experimental and theoretical frameworks to study nuclear spin state lifetimes, advancing the goals of the Mathematical and...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry has awarded a $696,868 Project Grant to Princeton University's Professor Joseph Subotnik to develop new computational methods for modeling the flow of energy between electrons, nuclei, and spin in molecular and material systems. This research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to improve understanding of efficient energy conversion processes in nature, such as photosynthesis, by accounting for spin...
The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $870,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The 3-year grant, starting on September 1, 2023 and ending on August 31, 2026, is funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop an advanced instrument combining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to New Mexico State University (NMSU) in partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The grant will support research and education in quantum materials and processes, focusing on two interdisciplinary thrusts: (1) superconductivity of ruthenates and their heterostructures, and (2) the infrared optical response of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of California, Los Angeles a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate spin, exciton, and chemical dynamics in crystalline solids for applications in quantum information science. Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and his research group will use pulsed lasers on nano-crystals of selected ketones suspended in water to detect the absorption spectra and decay...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $137,548 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will fund research to deepen the understanding of quantum computational advantage. Specifically, the project seeks to explore the interplay between entanglement, measurement, and quantum many-body physics in the context of "noisy...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $480,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop novel nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques using quantum sensing technology. Specifically, the USC research team led by Susumu Takahashi is creating new approaches to high-field NMR spectroscopy that leverage nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to dramatically...
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...