Project Grant 2226519
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $436,585 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical and computational research on novel phenomena in electronic insulators and related quantum Hall systems from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund the development of new theoretical concepts and field theoretic methods to describe strongly...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research titled "EAGER: SUPER: ELECTROCHEMICAL PROTONATION TO ACHIEVE SUPERCONDUCTING MATTER" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The award is being used to fund research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
- This $179,038 National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research Project Grant supports research into the high-pressure synthesis of missing pnictide superconductors. The awardee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will engage in a theory-inspired search for new superconductors that could provide fundamental insights into the mechanism of superconductivity. The research team will use high-pressure synthesis techniques to access new compounds that have eluded chemists. They will...
- This National Science Foundation award provides $449,997 to Boston College under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to study exotic electronic properties in a new class of kagome metal materials. Specifically, the award will allow the grantee to explore phenomena such as electronic nematic phases, charge stripe origins, density wave evolution with...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $591,720 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research on the emergent spin textures and dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials. The project aims to study the nanoscale magnetic patterns and low-energy spin dynamics in 2D magnets using advanced x-ray and optical spectroscopy techniques, coupled with theoretical modeling. This...
- This $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and education to examine superconductivity in the strong coupling regime. The principal investigator and graduate students will focus on several fundamental issues related to quantum-critical metals, including understanding the competition between fermionic incoherence and Cooper pairing, the emergence of dynamical vortices, and the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $753,918 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The award supports fundamental research into strongly interacting quantum mixtures of ultracold atoms, with the primary objective of discovering new states of matter at ultralow temperatures. The research...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $432,714 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project titled "New Challenges in the Derivation and Dynamics of Quantum Systems" from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The project aims to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences by increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing...
- This Project Grant award of $416,387 from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program supports a collaborative research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate emergent phenomena and novel correlated phases of matter in a unique family of crystalline 2D semiconductor materials. The project aims to leverage the high material quality, electric gate tunability, and strongly interacting electrons within highly...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $408,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "Interactions Between Spin Wave and Magnetic Domain Structures" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will fund MIT research exploring the interplay between spin wave propagation and magnetic domain...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $720,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research using ultrafast optical and electron probes to investigate the highly unconventional phase diagram of a new class of superconducting transition-metal kagome compounds. Specifically, the grant will support experiments using static and time-resolved Kerr rotation microscopy to study time-reversal symmetry breaking, second harmonic generation to investigate proposed chiral charge density wave order, and a combination of ultrafast electron diffraction and time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to directly measure dynamics of electronic and lattice structure. The research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the microscopic interactions in these materials and shed light on their unconventional orders. The grant period is from February 15, 2023 to January 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $720.0k | 1/9/23 |