This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to understand and control the surface electronic behavior of quantum materials. The $202,442 award, effective from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, will employ simultaneous measurements of surface atomic composition and electron motion to investigate how...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $500,000 in funding to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for theoretical and computational research and education in solid state physics and materials science. The key objectives are to use quantum theory, high-performance computing, and new concepts like topology to explain and predict the...
The University of California, Davis received a 5-year, $244,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to support theoretical research and education on quantum phases of matter in two-dimensional materials, with a focus on superconductivity and the interplay of disorder and criticality. The project aims to: 1) develop a unified understanding of superconducting graphene systems, and 2) characterize quantum phase transitions...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $533,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara for research into quantum phenomena in solids. The three-year award, running from September 2021 through August 2024, will fund investigation into major problems confronting the Nation through advancement of the mathematical and physical sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). As the prime awardee, UC Santa Barbara...
The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $870,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The 3-year grant, starting on September 1, 2023 and ending on August 31, 2026, is funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop an advanced instrument combining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds research to investigate collective quantum behavior of electrons at extremely low density. The $543,476 award to Montana State University is for a 3-year project from August 2024 to July 2027. Key objectives include studying the transition between metallic/superconducting and insulating/non-superconducting states in quasi-one-dimensional...
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $158,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics and Division of Materials Research. The award, effective March 1, 2024 through February 28, 2029, will support UC Davis's development of a theoretical framework to predict properties of strongly entangled quantum many-body systems. The project aims to discover topological invariants that can characterize many-body quantum phases, extract these...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
This $475,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support theoretical research and education on the physics of strongly correlated quantum materials at William Marsh Rice University from September 2022 through August 2025. Specifically, the Principal Investigator will apply and develop theoretical methods to study quantum criticality in heavy fermion systems, novel phases that emerge near quantum critical points such as candidate...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $428,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The award, made on July 1, 2021 for a period of three years, will support research entitled "Gapped Ground State Phases of Quantum Lattice Systems." Under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, UC Davis researchers will investigate gapped...