The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $135,545 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration, doing business as Princeton University, to conduct collaborative research on quantum criticality, localization, and dynamics in quasiperiodic systems. This research under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop a general framework for exploring quantum phase...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $269,798 to support theoretical research and associated education focused on investigating novel quantum phenomena in many-body systems. The research aims to explore universal properties and phenomena in quantum phases, specifically multipartite entanglement and topological properties in open quantum systems. Key research topics include the role of...
This Project Grant award of $300,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by Princeton University to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the non-linear response of quantum materials. The research aims to establish predictions for out-of-equilibrium behavior in systems like superconductors and thin wires, and to characterize phenomena like disorder-driven localization and chaos in...
This $221,844 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) project grant award to Princeton University supports research on microscopic studies of frustrated quantum systems using ultracold gases of atoms and molecules. The research team will explore new phases of matter that appear in frustrated quantum systems, such as magnets that are robust to very high temperatures, to advance the fundamental understanding of these complex quantum phenomena....
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $680,000 Project Grant to Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2025. The grant supports research titled "Probing Exotic Phases of Ultra High Mobility Two-Dimensional Electrons" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through...
This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on the quantum dynamics of near-one-dimensional systems at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). The PI will develop theoretical tools to quantitatively model and analyze experiments on ultracold atomic gases confined to one dimension, with a focus on understanding the far-from-equilibrium dynamics and emergent hydrodynamic...
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...
This $318,775 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical and computational research and education activities at Lehigh University from May 2022 through April 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator and their team will develop advanced numerical techniques to model the properties of two-dimensional quantum...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $390,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Office of Grant & Contract Administration in Hadley, MA to support collaborative research titled "New Challenges in the Derivation and Dynamics of Quantum Systems" from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these...
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 Princeton University a $108,991 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical research and education on the dynamics of interacting quantum systems that equilibrate anomalously slowly. The grant period runs from December 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
Specifically, the award will fund the development of computational methods tailored to characterizing slowly thermalizing quantum systems, as well as research exploring non-thermal features of physical observables and applications for quantum technologies. Educational activities supported through this Project Grant aim to make physics curriculum more relevant to a diverse student body through computational and complex systems course development. Outreach efforts include creating a mini museum to illustrate universal phenomena through hands-on exhibits.