Project Grant 2238895
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $545,300 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct research on quantum information control. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award, starting September 1, 2024, are: Establishing a framework for characterizing the time evolution of controlled statistical information in quantum systems....
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research provides $315,074 to support theoretical and computational research and education related to quantum phases in monitored quantum systems. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award to Trustees of Boston College from January 15, 2023 to December 31, 2025 will investigate non-thermal phases and quantum entanglement in quantum circuits subjected to continuous...
- 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...
- This $425,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to advance the control and learning of quantum many-body dynamics. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) develop novel protocols for robust control and error correction of quantum many-body systems, 2) experimentally assess these methods using solid-state nuclear...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical and computational research and education into quantum mechanical systems of interacting particles far from equilibrium. The $294,777 award to the Trustees of Boston University will focus on two major themes: (1) understanding, characterizing, and controlling chaos in interacting many-particle systems; and (2) developing formalism for...
- This Project Grant award for $236,459 was made by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) on July 1, 2025. The award supports the "CAREER: QUANTUM PULSE PROCESSING--ROBUST AND PROGRAMMABLE QUANTUM CONTROL FOR NEAR-TERM QUANTUM SIMULATION" research project, which aims to overcome the challenges of current noisy-intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices by improving...
- This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund research and education focused on the study of novel materials with strong interactions between particles. The research aims to develop new theoretical tools to better understand and predict the unusual behaviors of strongly interacting metals, which exhibit phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity that challenge current theories....
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Carnegie Mellon University received a $390,000 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 – Mathematical and Physical Sciences) for fundamental research investigating unconventional superconductivity mechanisms. Awarded June 1, 2026, with a completion date of May 31, 2031, this five-year project will deliver theoretical physics research examining how...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods Program within the Division of Chemistry awarded a 5-year, $700,000 CAREER grant to Dr. Philip Shushkov of Indiana University to develop theoretical methods for simulating the dynamics of ensembles of molecular spin qubits. This project aims to characterize the quantum dynamical behaviors of molecular qubit ensembles under different conditions, such as dimensionality, disorder, environmental noise,...
CAREER: ACTIVE FEEDBACK TO CONTROL DYNAMIC QUANTUM PHASES -NONTECHNICAL SUMMARY THIS FACULTY EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT (CAREER) AWARD SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF THEORETICAL CONDENSED MATTER IDEAS INTO DYNAMIC QUANTUM PHASES FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH, OUTREACH, AND AN EDUCATED, CRITICAL-THINKING QUANTUM WORKFORCE. CONTROLLING QUANTUM PHASES OF MATTER IS AN IMPORTANT THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL PROBLEM IN QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE AND QUANTUM CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS. EVEN IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS, STEERING A SYSTEM, AS IT DYNAMICALLY CHANGES, INTO A PARTICULAR PHASE IS A COMPLICATED AND CHALLENGING PROBLEM. TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE WEATHER AS A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE. THE CHAOTIC DYNAMICS OF WEATHER MEANS THAT IT BECOMES INHERENTLY UNPREDICTABLE (AFTER ROUGHLY 14 DAYS). HOWEVER, IF, THROUGH SOME GREAT FEET OF GLOBAL ENGINEERING, ONE COULD MAKE SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS TO THE PLANET, THEN ONE MIGHT HOPE TO CONTROL THE WEATHER. WHILE THIS IS IMPRACTICAL ON SUCH LARGE SCALES, SUCH THEORETICAL CONTROL OF CHAOS LEADS TO SHARP PHASES WHERE THE PHYSICAL SYSTEM IS EITHER CONTROLLED OR UNCONTROLLED (I.E., CHAOTIC). IN HIS RECENT STUDIES, THE PI HAS FOUND THE FIRST HINTS THAT THE ANALOGOUS QUANTUM SYSTEMS HOST DYNAMIC PHASES OF QUANTUM INFORMATION, BUT THERE IS A WIDE FRONTIER TO EXPLORE. THE NEW CONCEPT THAT THIS CONNECTION REVEALS IS THAT FEEDBACK BASED ON INFORMATION GATHERED ABOUT A PHYSICAL SYSTEM CAN CONTROL THE QUANTUM PHASE AND STEER IT INTO A DESIRED STATE. THIS ALLOWS EXPERIMENTS TO IMMEDIATELY WITNESS THE PHASES, AND IT OPENS THE PROSPECT THAT WE CAN CHOOSE INTERESTING STATES TO CONTROL THAT COULD HELP US SOLVE OTHER PROBLEMS IN CONDENSED MATTER AND QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCES. IN THIS PROJECT, THE PI AND HIS TEAM WILL DEVELOP AND APPLY NEW ALGORITHMS, EMPLOY HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS TO UNCOVER NEW DYNAMIC QUANTUM PHASES AND CONTROL CHAOTIC SYSTEMS ONTO SPECIFIC, DESIRED STATES OF MATTER. THE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY THIS AWARD INCLUDE (I) CREATING A PODCAST SERIES ON QUANTUM SCIENCE AND RELEASING IT ON MAJOR PODCASTING PLATFORMS, (II) THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN-SOURCE COURSE AT THE INTERSECTION OF QUANTUM INFORMATION AND CONDENSED MATTER, AIMED AT TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT THE QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES CURRENTLY BEING USED IN INDUSTRY, AND (III) WORKING WITH THE ERDOS INSTITUTE TO BRING INDUSTRIAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO GRADUATE STUDENTS. TECHNICAL SUMMARY THIS CAREER AWARD SUPPORTS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES THAT ARE AIMED AT INTEGRATING THEORETICAL CONDENSED MATTER IDEAS INTO DYNAMIC QUANTUM PHASES FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH, OUTREACH, AND IDEAS TO BUILD A CRITICAL-THINKING QUANTUM WORKFORCE. THE PI WILL USE FEEDBACK TO UNCOVER NEW DYNAMIC QUANTUM PHASES AND CONTROL CHAOTIC SYSTEMS ONTO SPECIFIC STATES. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE TO (1) DEVELOP HYBRID DYNAMIC MODELS (WITH MEASUREMENTS, UNITARY DYNAMICS, AND FEEDBACK) THAT HAVE A CONTROLLED PHASE TRANSITION ONTO SPECIFIC STATES OF THE SYSTEM AND (2) LEARN ABOUT EXISTING DYNAMICAL PHASE TRANSITIONS AND INSTITUTE A FORM OF CONTROL WITH PRESCRIBED FEEDBACK AND MACHINE LEARNING. THE PI AND HIS TEAM WILL DEVELOP NEW ALGORITHMS, EMPLOY HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES, AND DEVELOP A THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THESE TRANSITIONS IN QUANTIZED CLASSICAL MODELS, RANDOM QUANTUM CIRCUITS, AND QUANTUM SIMULATION OF HAMILTONIANS SUCH AS THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL HUBBARD MODEL. THE GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND DYNAMIC, ERGODIC, QUANTUM PHASES, UNITING THEORETICAL CONDENSED MATTER WITH QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF QUANTUM CONTROL THEORY. THE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY THIS AWARD INCLUDE (I) CREATING A PODCAST SERIES ON QUANTUM SCIENCE AND RELEASING IT ON MAJOR PODCASTING PLATFORMS, (II) THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN-SOURCE COURSE AT THE INTERSECTION OF QUANTUM INFORMATION AND CONDENSED MATTER, AIMED AT TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT THE QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES CURRENTLY BEING USED IN INDUSTRY, AND (III) WORKING WITH THE ERDOS INSTITUTE TO BRING INDUSTRIAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO GRADUATE STUDENTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $102.6k | 7/18/25 | ||
| Not listed | $297.8k | 12/21/22 |