This $206,156 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to George Mason University. The grant will fund research to explore the topological properties and edge states in fractional quantum Hall systems, which are important for the advancement of future topological quantum computing schemes. The project aims to develop a better understanding of quantum correlated phases in two-dimensional systems, with a focus...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $178,521 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to conduct research on building scalable quantum computing systems. The project aims to develop algorithms and physical interconnections to interconnect multiple quantum processing units (QPUs) with limited qubits into a scalable "virtual...
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 (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....
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070) supports research by the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to develop analog quantum algorithms for studying the non-Markovian dynamics of multi-qubit systems. The research aims to advance the capabilities for modeling open quantum systems, which is critical for harnessing the potential of quantum information processing. Key technical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 CAREER grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support theoretical research and educational activities in the rapidly evolving field of quantum materials. The project, funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to study how the quantum geometry of electron wavefunctions affects the collective properties of electrons in both clean and disordered quantum...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $254,999 supports collaborative research by professors at the City University of New York to advance the understanding of fundamental physical phenomena. Key focus areas include quantum entanglement, the mathematical relationships between field theory, string theory, and gravity, and applications in condensed matter physics and cosmology. The research team, which includes graduate...
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...
This $240,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical research and educational activities at Northeastern University focused on advancing the understanding of an unusual phase of matter known as the fracton phase. The key objectives are to: 1) develop theoretical approaches to understand the collective behavior of fractons, 2) investigate fractons in open quantum systems, and 3) design algorithms...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences supports research to develop quantum algorithms for modeling human dynamics and enhancing threat detection capabilities. The award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, aims to harness the power of quantum computing to improve upon classical computational methods for analyzing spatio-temporal human behavior data. The proposed framework can be used to discover...