The University of Illinois was awarded a $599,912 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research to push the boundaries of classical and quantum information processing toward enhanced security and energy-efficient reliability. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields to...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $208,309 Project Grant by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant supports fundamental research on "Modular Quantum Computing with an Array of Atom Arrays" over a 3-year period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028. The research aims to expand scientific knowledge and technological capabilities in quantum computing, a critical area for national...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $476,170 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The grant supports the development of a new class of tunable materials consisting of colloidal quantum dots with independently controlled size, shape, and composition. Researchers will investigate the fundamental thermodynamics and kinetics governing the synthesis and growth of these novel linear quantum dot...
The University of Illinois was awarded a three-year, $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research titled "TRANSPORT AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN STRONGLY CORRELATED QUANTUM MATTER." The grant will support research into transport and superconductivity in strongly correlated quantum matter from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $420,821 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The grant will fund the "RAPID AND ROBUST HIGH ORDER SPECTRAL SOLVERS FOR LEARNING PHOTONIC STRUCTURES" project being conducted from September 1, 2021 through August 31,...
This Project Grant award of $615,454.00, provided by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), supports fundamental research on modular quantum computing with optical cavities and transportable atom arrays at the University of Illinois. The award will fund the development of innovative quantum computing technologies that could enhance national security capabilities. The research, which runs from May 15, 2025...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $100,000.00 in funding to the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University (ISU) to research quantum information and interference features in transport. The 3-year project, starting on September 1, 2024, aims to advance the understanding of quantum coherence, entanglement, and information from the perspective of transport and nanostructure symmetry. This...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $399,083 will support research at the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund development of single-photon quantum information processing using nonlinear photonic integrated circuits. Specifically, the university researchers will work to generate and manipulate few-photon quantum correlations and entanglement through an integrated photonic system with record-high...
This $190,000 Project Grant award was issued by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences as part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports a four-year postdoctoral fellowship for Jacob Beckey to conduct research on "Fundamental Limits on the Learnability of Quantum States and Channels" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of sponsoring scientist Felix Leditzky. The...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $330,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences to support research related to hydrodynamics of collective phenomena and applications under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award, issued June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research exploring major problems confronting the Nation through advancing the store of scientific knowledge...