The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of California, Los Angeles a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate spin, exciton, and chemical dynamics in crystalline solids for applications in quantum information science. Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and his research group will use pulsed lasers on nano-crystals of selected ketones suspended in water to detect the absorption spectra and decay...
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 awarded a $399,960 project grant to the National Academy of Sciences to support research identifying opportunities at the interface of chemistry and quantum information science. The two-year award, made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund work to advance understanding of major scientific challenges through exploration of this emerging field. Specifically, the funding will allow the Academy to investigate potential...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research into practical strategies for implementing quantum chemistry on near-term quantum computers. James Freericks of Georgetown University and Dominika Zgid of the University of Michigan will collaborate to develop hybrid quantum-classical methodologies to run important parts of calculations on noisy intermediate-scale...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $334,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of South Carolina (USC) to develop theoretical and computational methods incorporating quantum mechanics for studying the properties and behaviors of molecular systems and nanomaterials. The project, led by Professor Sophya Garashchuk, aims to gain a fundamental understanding of chemical reactivity, charge and energy...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $1.6 million supports computational chemistry research at the University of California, Los Angeles from August 2022 to July 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). Professor K.N. Houk and colleagues will develop new computational methods to understand organic reaction rates, mechanisms, and selectivity through quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations. They will also perform computational...
This $104,376 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund a collaborative research effort to develop a software framework to streamline the implementation of advanced quantum chemistry methods on emerging hardware. The project team, comprising experts from Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, Virginia Tech, and the University of Memphis, will create libraries to efficiently handle the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Northwestern University a $420,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Quantum Control of Nanochemistry" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant aims to advance scientific understanding of major problems confronting the nation through research promoting progress in the mathematical and physical sciences. Specifically, the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $630,000 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Office of Research Administration. The grant will fund a collaborative research project between UCLA's Computer Science Department and Harvard University's Physics Department focused on developing novel compilation methods for Dynamically Reconfigurable Atom Arrays (DRAAs) - an emerging...
This $499,999 National Science Foundation project grant in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of new quantum chemistry algorithms by Professor David Mazziotti and his research group at the University of Chicago from September 2022 through August 2025. The grant aims to enable applications to more complex chemical systems through exploring reduced density matrix theory in combination with recent advances in quantum computing, machine learning,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $1.8 million Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles to establish the NSF Center for Advanced Molecular Architectures for Quantum Information Science under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The Center will develop new molecular and surface platforms containing molecular appendages that can serve as quantum bits for quantum computing. A team led by Professor Anastassia Alexandrova and including researchers from UCLA and the University of Southern California will use principles of chemistry and molecular design to develop scalable quantum systems on the order of trillions of qubits. The University of Southern California will receive a sub-award of $TBD to develop theoretical frameworks and computer codes to characterize prospective molecular systems as part of this effort. The three-year award period runs from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025.