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 $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...
This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $284,063 supports collaborative research on advances in quantum control and noise mitigation through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The University of New Mexico will utilize its highly accurate quantum processor based on cesium atom spin states to experimentally test new techniques for quantum control and error mitigation. Key research areas include simulating deep quantum circuits and Floquet systems,...
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 $428,793 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research conducted by The Leland Stanford Junior University to develop programmable quantum simulation and computation capabilities using cold atoms coupled to optical resonators. The key objectives are to explore frustration and topology in programmable spin models, enable measurement-based quantum computation and state preparation, and access...
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 $199,087 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) to investigate quantum coherence in thermal Bose gases. The goals are to determine the maximum temperature for such gases to exhibit coherent spin-changing collisions, study the transition from thermal gas to Bose-Einstein condensate, and integrate quantum science research into...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $239,999 to George Mason University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on ultracold atoms in optical tweezer arrays. The research aims to develop novel numerical algorithms to understand the correlations and dynamics of interacting atoms in these arrays, with the goal of realizing new correlated quantum phases and generating entangled states for quantum information applications....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $359,994 Project Grant to Georgia Southern University Research & Service Foundation Inc. under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research investigating quantum thermodynamics of atomtronic systems from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund studies of how ultracold quantum gases confined in thin sheets can be used as precision sensors when cooled to near absolute...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $382,119 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), operating as Stony Brook University, from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant will fund research on digital quantum simulations to study the ground states and dynamics of various complex quantum systems, including spin models, gauge theories, and supersymmetric systems....