The National Science Foundation awarded a $472,639 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research exploring open channel operations using atomic qubits as processing and measurement resources. Specifically, the university will study how dissipation and thermal light sources can be leveraged to cool and control single atoms for quantum information applications. Researchers will address...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research on how light interacts with cold, dense gases of atoms. The principal investigator and graduate students will use computer simulations to study "many-body" quantum effects that emerge when light simultaneously interacts with multiple atoms in close proximity. The research aims to advance understanding of quantum...
The National Science Foundation awarded San Jose State University Research Foundation $180,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct theoretical research on quantum state control for ultracold atoms from June 2023 through May 2026. The Foundation will advance scientific understanding of quantum sensing, communications, and simulation technologies by exploring new weak measurement models and feedback control protocols in spinor Bose-Einstein...
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....
This $298,494 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research on "Beyond Mean-Field Physics in Dynamical Bose-Einstein Condensates" under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The project aims to explore a variety of nonequilibrium processes in ultracold quantum gases, with a focus on investigating quantum and thermal fluctuation effects on the collision and thermalization of cold atoms, quantum phase...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $420,000 Project Grant through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Northeastern University. The 3-year grant, beginning August 1, 2024, will fund research focused on developing novel machine learning-inspired computational methods and advancing the understanding of quantum many-body systems. Key efforts include: 1) applying neural network models based on "quantum attention" to study quantum many-body ground...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year Project Grant of $285,164 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for a research project titled "Interacting Atoms in Optical Lattices" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The project aims to perform a series of experiments with ultra-cold 87Rb atomic gases confined in one-dimensional (1D) optical lattices to expand the understanding of many-body quantum dynamics....
This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support theoretical research at Louisiana State University (LSU) on novel phases of confined cold atomic gases from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research team at LSU will develop new predictions for possible collective states of trapped cold atomic gases, shedding light on emergent phenomena like superfluidity and magnetism. They will study implications of recent...
This federal Project Grant award of $360,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research on quantum mechanics and its applications in new quantum materials and technologies. The research program, led by Cornell University, aims to expand the range of physics that can be studied through cold gas experiments, with a focus on three key questions: (1) how to controllably create highly entangled quantum states...
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...