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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $280,000 Project Grant under CFDA 47.083, Integrative Activities, to the University of New Orleans. The grant supports research to demonstrate multi-party quantum entanglement through a partnership with the University of Colorado (CU)-Boulder. Key objectives include: Employing CU-Boulder's experimental platform to test entangled measurements and multi-party entangled states in a device-independent manner. This...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Louisiana State University's research project to deepen the understanding of quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theories and its relationship to the geometry of spacetime. The project is composed of interconnected sub-projects that theoretically explore the entanglement structure in flat and curved spacetimes, investigate methods to...
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 $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 $269,798 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and associated education to investigate novel quantum phenomena in many-body systems. The research aims to explore multipartite entanglement, topological properties, and complex behaviors arising from factors like interactions, disorder, and dissipation in quantum systems. Key focus areas include quantum phases, quantum...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $249,017 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant supports research to develop direct estimates and confidence intervals for the fidelity of quantum states under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to advance mathematical and physical sciences knowledge and understanding of major problems to...
The University of Houston was awarded a $215,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the project "QUANTUM CORRELATIONS IN INFORMATION THEORY, THEIR INTERPLAY, AND THEIR LIMITATIONS" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. Under this award, the University of Houston will investigate quantum correlations in information theory, explore the interplay between different types of quantum correlations, and examine...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The 3-year project, titled "Operational Quantum Mereology: An Information Scrambling Approach," aims to develop a unified framework for optimal selection of quantum subsystems. The technical approach will be based on the concept of "information scrambling" to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant to Lebanon Valley College under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study theoretical problems in physics and mathematics related to quantum advantage. The 3-year grant supports implementation of a resource theory framework to analyze invertible free operations, including local unitary transformations, permutations of subsystems, and matchgates, in order to probe multiparticle quantum...