This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The research program brings together teams from Duke University with expertise in material synthesis, quantum property characterization, theory, and computational materials simulations. By systematically studying...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) $1,000,000 project grant award to North Carolina State University aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The research program brings together four teams with expertise in material synthesis, quantum property characterization, first principles theory, and computational materials simulations to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $437,749 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The grant supports a research project to investigate a new class of luminescent protein materials and their potential applications in imaging, sensing, and biological tracking. The project aims to characterize the chemical and physical properties of known luminescent protein-metal compounds, and leverage...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a $545,613 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from August 2021 through July 2024 on optical bound states and non-linearity in geometrically-modulated dielectric nanowires. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop a new class of ultralight, manufacturable materials with optimized mechanical and transport properties. The $362,000 award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aims to: Characterize the benefits of exploiting local uniformity and hyperuniformity in material design; Measure mechanical and transport properties to understand the...
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 $150,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop GPU-accelerated first-principles simulation techniques for modeling exciton dynamics in complex materials systems. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the three-year award running from August 2022 to July 2025 will advance the scientific understanding needed to design novel photovoltaic and...
This $250,000 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical research and educational activities at Wake Forest University focused on developing innovative numerical methods for studying the quantum mechanical properties and nonlinear responses of complex materials. The research team will leverage advanced matrix product state approaches to construct accurate low-energy effective Hamiltonians capable of capturing...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $443,634 will fund research and education activities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from October 2022 through March 2025. The award is part of the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million program to advance engineering innovation and education. Specifically, the grant will support development of quantum spintronic device building blocks using magnetically ordered materials. The university researchers will explore how...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $499,999 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). This 4-year grant aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The project brings together UNC researchers with expertise in materials synthesis, quantum property characterization, computational materials simulations, and first principles theory. The research program will systematically study hybrid metal halide perovskite materials to produce reusable data relating superfluorescence characteristics like critical temperature, threshold excitation density, color tunability, and coherence to material properties. The broader impacts include training an R&D workforce, increasing STEM career interest among disadvantaged high school students, and contributing materials data to an open database to benefit the broader materials research community.