This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison (UW-Madison) for the development of a "Field Assisted Nano Assembly System (FANAS) for Next-Generation Photonics and Quantum Computing". The overarching objective is to investigate new design principles and manufacturing methods for 3D photonic structures using acoustic,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,010,056 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). The grant supports a collaborative research effort to develop pseudospin control as a new materials design tool for discovering novel magnetic states and superconductivity. The project will combine computational theory, epitaxial materials growth, and advanced characterization techniques to create guiding...
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 $406,831 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, will support research at Wayne State University exploring sound as an analogue for quantum information science. The research aims to develop classically entangled acoustic waves analogous to quantum bits without quantum fragility through exploiting recently discovered analogies between acoustics, quantum mechanics, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award in the amount of $138,101 to the University of Wisconsin System will support research to enable scalable and resilient quantum computer architectures through an integrated hardware-software co-design approach. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) Co-design the instruction set architecture and runtime system to enhance the efficiency and resilience of quantum...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $370,974, provided through the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research at the University of Houston aimed at advancing the understanding of quantum materials and their unique properties. The research will develop new models and methods for designing quantum materials by linking continuum mechanics with quantum field, electric field, and magnetic field interactions. Specifically, the project will explore the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $362,344 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan) to investigate the interaction between two quantum bits (qubits) in a semiconductor system. The goal is to create two site-controlled quantum dots in close proximity and exploit their...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,069 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Rochester to develop an analog quantum simulator for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. The objective is to create a platform using semiconductor quantum dots and quantum electronic circuits that can simulate the dissipative dynamics of excitons in molecular systems, such as those found in photosynthetic complexes or Hubbard...
This four-year, $1.8 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a quantum circuit compiler. The goals of the project are to automatically generate optimized mappings of quantum programs to physical quantum computing systems through the use of synthesis frameworks. This will include the automatic discovery and verification of circuit...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $485,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) division of the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF) program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The grant supports collaborative research to use deep learning and theoretical tools to predict and engineer "twistronic" materials - atomically thin two-dimensional materials where the twist angle between layers can be...
The National Science Foundation awarded $357,323 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the project "Driving Quantum Systems with Classical Fields." Over a three-year period ending August 2025, the University will develop state-of-the-art simulation software to analyze how electrons in nanoscale devices interact with classical light and sound waves.
The University will integrate recent advances in computational electromagnetics and elastic wave scattering simulation techniques with efficient density-matrix methods for quantum electronic transport modeling. This will allow for self-consistent simulation of light-matter and sound-matter interaction at the nanoscale. Simulation codes will be distributed openly on GitHub to benefit experimental design in industry and academia. Undergraduate researchers will also participate in the project. The funding will support improved understanding and prediction of nanoscale phenomena with potential technological applications across various fields.