This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics provides $221,184 to the University of Massachusetts Office of Grant & Contract Administration in Hadley, MA from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "From Quantum Droplets & Spinor Solitons to Vortex Knots & Topological States: Beyond the Standard Mean-Field in Atomic BECs." This research aligns with the goals of the Mathematical and...
This $426,117 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into topological excitations in spin-1 and spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates at Amherst College from July 2022 through June 2025. The principal investigator and undergraduate collaborators will study the creation and time evolution of quasiparticles such as monopoles, knots, skyrmions, and vortices in optically trapped rubidium-87 Bose-Einstein...
This $298,494 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research on "Beyond Mean-Field Physics in Dynamical Bose-Einstein Condensates" under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The project aims to explore a variety of nonequilibrium processes in ultracold quantum gases, with a focus on investigating quantum and thermal fluctuation effects on the collision and thermalization of cold atoms, quantum phase...
The National Science Foundation awarded San Jose State University Research Foundation $180,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct theoretical research on quantum state control for ultracold atoms from June 2023 through May 2026. The Foundation will advance scientific understanding of quantum sensing, communications, and simulation technologies by exploring new weak measurement models and feedback control protocols in spinor Bose-Einstein...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $290,000 in funding from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct theoretical research on novel phases of matter and physical phenomena arising from constraints in many-particle quantum systems. The research has two main focus areas: 1) exploring the interplay between topology and highly constraining symmetries, such as...
The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded Rice University a $300,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on manipulating spinor quantum gases from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The university will study the interplay between spin and charge degrees of freedom in one-dimensional spinor quantum gases, simulate lattice gauge theory and Dirac strings using spinor condensates, and examine multicritical...
This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on the quantum dynamics of near-one-dimensional systems at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). The PI will develop theoretical tools to quantitatively model and analyze experiments on ultracold atomic gases confined to one dimension, with a focus on understanding the far-from-equilibrium dynamics and emergent hydrodynamic...
This federal Project Grant award of $360,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research on quantum mechanics and its applications in new quantum materials and technologies. The research program, led by Cornell University, aims to expand the range of physics that can be studied through cold gas experiments, with a focus on three key questions: (1) how to controllably create highly entangled quantum states...
This Project Grant award, valued at $214,419 and effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, was issued by the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The primary objective of this project is to develop an experimental simulation system using ultracold dipolar molecules confined in optical lattices to investigate new states of quantum matter and advance the understanding of physical processes behind...