This $413,851 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Case Western Reserve University to develop magnetic nanostructures for addressing and coupling nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin qubits. The goal is to understand how to engineer magnetic materials and structures to provide strong, local, and controllable magnetic fields for manipulating NV center...
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 $197,780 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel quantum magnetometer sensor based on an organic chromophore coupled with a mechanical resonator. The research aims to create an ultra-sensitive and highly efficient magnetometer sensor that can detect variations in magnetic fields through the quantum emission of a single chromophore. This work has potential applications in fields such as robotics,...
This $1,550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of networked quantum sensor systems for a range of scientific and technological applications. The "QUSEC-TAQS: Quantum Sensor Networks for Metrology, Chemistry and Astrophysics" project aims to advance theoretical concepts, conduct proof-of-principle experiments, and adapt quantum sensing approaches to different platforms and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $250,000 to The Ohio State University to develop a quantum sensing platform for measuring molecular structure and dynamics. The project aims to exploit quantum entanglement between multi-qubit ensembles to achieve quantum advantage in characterizing solid-state and molecular systems. Key objectives include creating a modular platform with molecular targets, spin-relay layers,...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research on the quantum sensing of room-temperature van der Waals magnets for next-generation quantum spintronic device applications. The $379,998 award to Georgia Tech Research Corp, running from May 2025 to April 2028, aims to utilize nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers to directly visualize magnetic behaviors in 2D Fe3GeTe2-based van der Waals stacking devices. The project seeks to...
This $244,955 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical and computational research to develop advanced computational tools and use them for describing the dynamical behavior of magnetic molecules connected to external electrodes and manipulated by magnetic fields. The research aims to provide a balance between computational efficiency and physical accuracy in simulating such open...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas to study and control decoherence in hybrid magnon-diamond systems composed of nitrogen vacancy (NV) spin qubits coupled to magnetic waveguides. The project aims to advance understanding of the interaction between NV spin qubits and magnetic nanostructures, including ferromagnetic waveguides and 2D van der Waals...
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 $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...