The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,149,999 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Federal Grant Program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. This 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2024, will fund the development of an open-source ecosystem of modeling tools for quantum hardware. The project aims to democratize access to quantum technology by creating user-friendly tools that allow researchers to model quantum systems...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build an advanced quantum computing laboratory. The laboratory will create and fault-tolerantly measure many-body quantum states, with the goal of demonstrating practical quantum advantages for problems in chemistry, materials, and physics. The project will make significant advances in atomic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to strengthen both mathematics and quantum information science (QIS). This 5-year project will train mathematicians to enter the world of quantum research through a holistic curriculum guiding them from learning quantum principles to applying sophisticated mathematical...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, provides $500,000 to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to conduct research on the design, analysis, and control of quantum networks. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award, which began on September 1, 2024, include: (i) Developing new path selection and link-level entanglement allocation algorithms...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds research and education into the study of novel materials with strong interactions between particles that give rise to unique and complex behaviors. The research aims to develop new theoretical tools to better understand and predict these unusual states of matter, focusing on understanding the patterns of quantum entanglement that can arise in strongly...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund collaborative research to develop scalable quantum computing systems. The project aims to interconnect multiple quantum processing units (QPUs) with limited qubit capacity into a scalable "virtual quantum machine" (VQM) with far greater qubit capabilities. The research will investigate fundamental qubit entanglement and...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research, education, and outreach activities at the University of Minnesota. The goal is to develop theoretical underpinnings and quantum algorithms that can be implemented on modern quantum computing platforms. Specifically, the project will investigate the effectiveness of noisy-dissipative qubit arrays for quantum optimization and cooling, and implement...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $498,945 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Pittsburgh to develop research-based educational materials to prepare undergraduate students for the "Second Quantum Revolution". The materials will include Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorials (QUILTS) and peer-instruction tools focused on quantum information science and technology (QIST) concepts such as quantum...
This $294,777 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical and computational research and education into quantum mechanical systems of interacting particles far from equilibrium. The key focus areas include: 1) understanding and characterizing chaos in interacting many-particle systems, and 2) developing formalism for describing systems with both quantum and classical degrees of freedom. The...
This federal Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research on hybrid solid-state quantum systems that combine semiconductor spin qubits and superconducting circuits. The $799,123 award to the University of Rhode Island, with a sub-award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to advance the state of quantum information science and engineering. The key products or services to be...