This three-year, $284,063 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research into advances in quantum control and noise mitigation using a highly accurate quantum testbed. The University of Arizona, operating through the Arizona Board of Regents, will lead collaborative experimental and theoretical work to develop new techniques for quantum control and shielding quantum devices from noise. Researchers will employ a small,...
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 award, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports the development, analysis, and deployment of Quantum Digital Twins (QDTs) - digital clones of existing quantum computers. The $299,990 award to the University of New Mexico aims to enable bidirectional interactions between quantum computers and virtual models on classical systems, optimizing quantum performance and advancing the state of quantum...
This $425,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to advance the control and learning of quantum many-body dynamics. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) develop novel protocols for robust control and error correction of quantum many-body systems, 2) experimentally assess these methods using solid-state nuclear...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of an innovative quantum control framework called "Quantum Pulse Processing" to enhance the performance of near-term quantum simulation devices. The $236,459 award, effective from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030, aims to create a hybrid digital-analog approach that combines the programmability of gate-based quantum...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,571 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of New Mexico. This grant supports the design and development of a full-stack programmable photonic Gaussian-Boson-Sampling (GBS) quantum computer, including the selection of quantum light sources, interferometer units, and photo-detection components. The project aims to advance quantum information science and engineering by addressing...
This $610,000 Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), will support experimental and theoretical research to investigate the use of quantum sensors to address unsolved mysteries in fundamental physics. The research team at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) will collaborate with researchers at Laboratoire Aime Cotton in Orsay, France to generate and study the properties of nonclassical...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), will enable researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University to explore fundamental quantum phenomena and develop techniques for efficient characterization of magnetic noise at the atomic level. The $1,750,000 project, with a period of performance from July 2024 to August 2027, aims to expand understanding of electronic noise...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research to characterize new phases of quantum matter and develop quantum error-correction strategies. The $288,497 award, running from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030, will leverage tools from quantum information theory and quantum many-body physics to (i) identify novel zero-temperature quantum phases, (ii) elucidate universal entanglement properties of...