The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop energy efficient quantum control of robust spin ensemble qubits. The three-year award will support research to simulate and demonstrate highly localized control of qubits using nanomagnets driven by electric fields at spin qubit Larmor frequencies. This aims to implement single-qubit quantum gates with high fidelities...
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 $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 of $134,382 from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program supports research by the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop a robust and scalable quantum networking platform. The award will fund the establishment of quantum nodes using ytterbium atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays and nanophotonic cavities, enabling the distribution of quantum information between nodes via entangled telecom photons. Key...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $472,639 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research exploring open channel operations using atomic qubits as processing and measurement resources. Specifically, the university will study how dissipation and thermal light sources can be leveraged to cool and control single atoms for quantum information applications. Researchers will address...
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) Division of Physics awarded a $692,351 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop and characterize new techniques using lasers to measure and control the quantum mechanical state of individual trapped and isolated molecules. The three-year grant, awarded on July 15, 2023, will support Professor David Leibrandt and his research group in constructing a new...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $465,003 project grant to the California Institute of Technology from June 2021 through May 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds the "Quantum Chemistry via General Tensor Networks" project, which aims to advance understanding of major problems in quantum chemistry through developing tensor network methods for simulating strongly correlated quantum systems. The funding supports Caltech's work...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research is providing a $504,840 Project Grant to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to support the discovery and study of new quantum materials based on frustrated vanadium lattices. Over the 3-year project period from April 2024 to March 2027, the research team led by Prof. Toberer will employ computational modeling, bulk materials synthesis, and low-temperature characterization to identify and investigate novel ternary vanadium...