The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $360,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Central Florida (UCF) for a 3-year project entitled "Coherent Attosecond Ionization Dynamics in Laser-Dressed Atomic and Molecular Systems". The project will theoretically study the statistical properties and time evolution of localized charges created in organic molecules by the absorption of short pulses of ionizing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $1,715,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct research on ultrafast strong-field control of coherence and entanglement in atoms and molecules. The research focuses on investigating and controlling the rapid motion of electrons and atoms within molecules using precise external forces from high-intensity, ultrafast laser...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $300,000, will support theoretical research to develop short-pulsed ultraviolet laser sources. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award will promote progress in the generation and characterization of ultraviolet laser pulses. Specifically, the awardee will conduct numerical simulations of high harmonic generation in a gas jet experiment to analyze the impact of...
The University of Nebraska was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research titled "HIGH FIDELITY FLUID-KINETIC HYBRID MODELING OF INTENSE, SHORT PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS" from August 2021 through July 2024. The university will conduct research to advance understanding of major problems in plasma physics through developing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $277,644 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to conduct theoretical studies of collisions involving electrons, positrons, and positronium atoms, and to investigate the control of these processes using laser fields. This grant, funded under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to advance the fundamental understanding of antimatter and its applications in fields such as technological...
This $125,499 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project between the University of Massachusetts Boston and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). The project aims to advance the understanding of atomic multi-body interactions and explore methods for the coherent control of quantum mechanical properties, particularly focusing on the behavior of...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $493,565 awarded on July 15, 2022 will support research into coherent control and analysis of atomic multi-photon processes at the Missouri University of Science and Technology through June 30, 2025. The research aims to advance established coherent control schemes and develop new methods to manipulate electron dynamics in photo-absorption processes using lithium atoms. Investigators will shape both the microscopic properties of femtosecond laser...
This Project Grant award, valued at $376,379.00 and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research on the dynamics of few-body quantum systems. The key objectives are to develop a quantum mechanical treatment of the time evolution of small atomic and molecular systems, in order to reveal few-body phenomena and improve understanding of larger system dynamics. The research will focus on two main areas: (1)...
This $350,546 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports fundamental research on quantum stereodynamics of cold molecular collisions. The project, led by researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), aims to gain a deeper understanding of atomic and molecular collision processes and explore methods to control the outcomes of chemical reactions through quantum mechanical techniques. Key focus...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to The Ohio State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on strong field physics with light-matter interaction. The award will fund the development of semiclassical methods to address open problems involving strong field ionization using vortex beams. Specifically, the university will develop a theory treating the initial ionization quantum mechanically followed by...