This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $580,000 in funding to Rowan University to develop comprehensive quantum methodologies for modeling and designing molecular-scale quantum sensors with ultra-high sensitivity and long-lived electronic coherence. The key objectives are to: 1) Create new time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) methods that incorporate multiconfigurational molecular electronic...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program supports research and development of new quantum sensors to study open quantum systems. The project at The Washington University in St. Louis aims to leverage quantum entanglement to characterize the role of memory in quantum environments, develop quantum-entanglement-enhanced metrology techniques, and investigate the transition between quantum and classical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,069 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Rochester to develop an analog quantum simulator for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. The objective is to create a platform using semiconductor quantum dots and quantum electronic circuits that can simulate the dissipative dynamics of excitons in molecular systems, such as those found in photosynthetic complexes or Hubbard...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,500,571 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Bryn Mawr College, a women's liberal arts college, to establish a Research and Education Center for Quantum Materials and Sensing. The project aims to integrate resources from higher education, an existing NSF-funded Quantum Center at Johns Hopkins University, national labs, and industry to advance research in quantum materials and quantum sensing, and to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...
This Project Grant award of $486,694.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports a series of experiments by a research group at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to study the dynamics of one-dimensional (1D) quantum gas systems confined in optical lattices. The key objectives are to expand the theoretical understanding of many-body quantum systems, especially their out-of-equilibrium behavior, which has implications...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $596,083 Project Grant to the Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. (KSU R&SF) for the "EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: EXCEPTIONAL ENTANGLEMENT TRANSITION AND SUPERSENSITIVE QUANTUM SENSING EMPOWERED BY ANTI-HERMITICITY AND SYMMETRIES" project. The grant, funded from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026, supports research into preserving and enhancing 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 $610,000 Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), will support experimental and theoretical research to investigate the use of quantum sensors to address unsolved mysteries in fundamental physics. The research team at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) will collaborate with researchers at Laboratoire Aime Cotton in Orsay, France to generate and study the properties of nonclassical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant to Lebanon Valley College under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study theoretical problems in physics and mathematics related to quantum advantage. The 3-year grant supports implementation of a resource theory framework to analyze invertible free operations, including local unitary transformations, permutations of subsystems, and matchgates, in order to probe multiparticle quantum...